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| Date: | 12th November 1831 |
| Colliery: | Whitehaven, Croft Pit |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 23 |
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Bolton, John, aged 33, gas explosion, address: Bells Lane | |
Cook, Robert, aged 19, gas explosion, address: Front Row, Newhouses | |
Davey, Michael, aged 26, address: Back Row, Newhouses | |
Fitzsimmons, Christopher, aged 14, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Garraway, Alexander, aged 18, gas explosion, brother of Robert | |
Garraway, Robert, aged 12, gas explosion, brother of Alexander | |
Graham, John, aged 17, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Hanay, Hugh, aged 25, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Ingleby, Clement, aged 20, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Little, John, aged 20, gas explosion, brother of William | |
Little, William, aged 21, gas explosion, brother of John | |
McCallister, Hector, aged 20, gas explosion, address: Front Row, Newhouses | |
McGaughin, Archibald, aged 23, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses, brother of John | |
McGaughin, John, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses, brother of Arthur | |
McMinn, John, aged 17, gas explosion, address: Ginns | |
McQueen, Arthur, aged 9, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses, son of James | |
McQueen, James, aged 40, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses, father of Arthur | |
Morris, Cormick, aged 60, gas explosion, address: Front Row, Newhouses | |
Parleton, George, aged 42, gas explosion, address: Back Row, Newhouses | |
Smith, Hugh, aged 27, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Taylor, Abraham, aged 8, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
Turner, Patterson, aged 28, gas explosion, address: Ginns | |
Wood, Thomas, aged 26, gas explosion, address: Middle Row, Newhouses | |
All names found | |
Youngest: 8 years old ; Oldest: 60 ; Average: 24 |
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| Newspaper Articles | |
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| 15 Nov 1831 | Melancholy Accident (Cumberland Pacquet) |
| 15 Nov 1831 | Explosion of Fire-damp in Lord Lonsdale's Collieries, Twenty-two lives lost (Whitehaven Herald) |
| 22 Nov 1831 | Adjourned Inquest On The Bodies Of The Persons Who Perished By The Explosion On Saturday Week In Croft Pit (Whitehaven Herald) |
| 22 Nov 1831 | The Widows (Whitehaven Herald) |
| 29 Nov 1831 | Adjourned Inquest On The Death's Of The Persons Killed In Croft Pit, Held Nov 22nd (Whitehaven Herald) |
| 29 Nov 1831 | Accident at Croft Pit (Cumberland Pacquet) |
| 06 Dec 1831 | Explosion at Croft Pit, (Concluded from our last) (Whitehaven Herald) |
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