Durham Mining Museum - Mill Pit, Herrington (original) (raw)

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

| | 10th | Oct | 1812 | | Explosion, 24 lives lost (Show Names) | | ----------- | ------- | -------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------- |

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

| | | | | | | Anderson, Daniel, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 19, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | Armstrong, John, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 28, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Barras, Thomas, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 17, killed in the 1812 explosion, of Shiney Row, (bapt. 26 Oct 1794), son of Cuthbert Barras, Pitman, by his wife Ann Elsdon (mar: 15 Jun 1776 at Penshaw), Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Barras, William, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 15, killed in the 1812 explosion, of Shiney Row, (bapt. 06 Nov 1796), son of Cuthbert Barras, Pitman, by his wife Ann Elsdon (mar: 15 Jun 1776 at Penshaw), Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Berwick, John, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 8, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Carr, George, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Cook, James, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 8, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Crosby, Thomas, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 67, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 13 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Forster, Joseph, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 16, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Forster, Robert, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 13 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Gordon, Robert, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 61, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Hutchinson, John, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 20, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Hutchinson, William, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 17, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Lewis, Ralph, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 12, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Norton, Edward, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 25, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Sheavels, Robert, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 7, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Smith, John, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 15, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 12 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Stringer, Andrew, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 17, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Welsh, Edward, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 8, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Welsh, Johnson, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 8, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Welsh, Thomas, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 15, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Wilson, Robert, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 14, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | Wilson, William, 10 Oct 1812, 1:00 p.m., aged 29, killed in the 1812 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw on 11 Oct 1812 {NBI} [More information ...] | | | | | | | | | | 23 names found | | | | | |

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

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Credits

Sources:

• Headstone(s) in All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw
• National Burial Index published by The Federation of Family History Societies & Associates
• Parish Records

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Further Reading:

• Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
• Explosions in Coal Mines by W. N. & J. B. Atkinson, published in 1886