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| Date: | 29th November 1805 |
| Colliery: | Oxclose |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 38 |
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. |
| | 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 |
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All names found |
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Youngest: 8 years old ; Oldest: 55 ; Average: 24 |
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