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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  29th November 1805
Colliery:  Oxclose
Cause:  Explosion
Lives Lost:  38

Description

An explosion took place in Oxclose colliery, by which unfortunate accident thirty-eight human beings were hurried into eternity, and eighteen widows and seventy children were thrown upon the charity of the public.

Source: Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.

Fatalities

  

Armstrong, John, aged 18, Buried: Washington

  

Bradley, Isaac, aged 25, Buried: Washington

  

Carr, Robert, aged 24, Buried: Washington

  

Curry, Henry, Buried: Penshaw?

  

Davison, Joseph, aged 26, Buried: Washington

  

Dowell, George, aged 12, Buried: Washington

  

Dowell, Henry, aged 18, Buried: Washington

  

Dowell, William, aged 25, Buried: Washington

  

Dunn, Benjamin, aged 55, Buried: Washington

  

Errington, John, aged 24, Buried: Washington

  

Frost, Robert, aged 27, Buried: Washington

  

Hall, James, aged 24, Buried: Washington

  

Hamilton, Thomas, aged 30, Buried: Washington

  

Harrison, John, aged 26, Buried: Washington

  

Henderson, William, aged 25, Buried: Washington

  

Johnson, Henry, aged 26, Buried: Washington

  

Johnson, Ralph, aged 22, Buried: Washington

  

Knott, Edward, aged 12, Buried: Washington

  

Knott, Thomas, aged 15, Buried: Washington

  

Knott, William, aged 18, Buried: Washington

  

Knox, Thomas, aged 23, Buried: Washington

  

Lake, John, aged 32, Buried: Washington

  

Lake, Robert, aged 10, Buried: Washington

  

Mason, John, aged 10, Buried: Washington

  

Mason, Thomas, aged 29, Buried: Washington

  

Reay, John, aged 20, Buried: Washington

  

Reay, Thomas, aged 18, Buried: Washington

  

Robinson, Thomas, aged 30, Buried: Washington

  

Sadler, Daniel, aged 8, Buried: Washington

  

Sadler, Thomas, aged 33, Buried: Washington

  

Thirloway, Ralph, aged 46, Buried: Washington

  

Todd, John, aged 28, Buried: Washington

  

Todd, Thomas, aged 19, Buried: Washington

  

Vazie, William (jnr), aged 10, Buried: Washington

  

Vazie, William (snr), aged 34, Buried: Washington

  

Walker, Michael, aged 35, Buried: Washington

  

Walker, Richard, aged 33, Buried: Washington

  

Walker, William, aged 9, Buried: Washington

 
All names found
 
Youngest: 8 years old ; Oldest: 55 ; Average: 24

 

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