Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Location:
Trimdon, County Durham, England
Surnames/tags:
Mining Disasters England Disasters
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Worldwide Disasters | Mining Disasters | England Mining Disasters | County Durham Mining Disasters| Trimdon Grange Colliery 1882
Contact: TBC
History and Circumstances
- Date: 16 February 1882
- Location: Trimdon Grange Colliery, Trimdon, County Durham, England
- Victims: 74 lives lost
- Cause: Colliery Explosion
Victims
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| Allison, John, aged 19, single man
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| Berryman, Jacob, aged 33, left a wife and 3 children
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| Blenkinsop, Thomas, aged 37, left a wife and 4 children
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| Bowen, Frederick, aged 23, left a wife and 2 children
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| Brown, Peter, aged 60
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| Burke, Henry, aged 39, left a wife and 4 children
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| Burnett, George Colling, aged 19, brother of Joseph and James, single man
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| Burnett, James White, aged 17, brother of Joseph and George
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| Burnett, Joseph Whitfield, aged 23, brother of George and James, single man
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| Burns, William, aged 35
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| Clark, Thomas, aged 24, left a wife and 2 children
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| Dawe, Richard, aged 20, single man
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| Dobson, George, aged 26, single man
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| Docherty, Michael, aged 19, single man
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| Dormand, Joseph, aged 14
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| Dormand, Thomas, aged 13
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| Douglas, John, aged 13
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| Durkin, Patrick, aged 12
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| Edmunds, John Samuel, aged 16
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| Edwards, David, aged 16, single man
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| Edwards, Robert, aged 17, single man
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| Errington, John, aged 33, left a wife and three children
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| French, Matthew, aged 13
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| Golesly, Jacob, aged 47
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| Golesly, Robert, aged 60
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| Griffiths, David, aged 19, single man
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| Hart, John, aged 23
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| Hart, Michael, aged 45, left a wife and 7 children
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| Herrington, John, aged 36
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| Horden, Thomas, aged 56, left a wife and grown up family
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| Hughes, John, aged 29, single man
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| Hunter, Thomas, aged 37, left a wife and 6 children
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| Hyde, Joseph, aged 23, single man
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| Hyde, William J., aged 26, left a wife and 1 child
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| Jefferson, George, aged 14, brother of William
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| Jefferson, William, aged 18, brother of George
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| Jennings, William, aged 16, a widow's son
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| Jones, Cornelieus, aged 18
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| Jones, John Francis, aged 38, unmarried
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| Joyce, Henry, aged 16
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| Madrell, William, aged 40, left a wife
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| Maitland, Robert, aged 40, left a wife and 3 children
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| McDonald, James Boyd, aged 13
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| McHale, John, aged 16, brother of Michael and Thomas, single man
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| McHale, Michael, aged 21, brother of John and Thomas, single man
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| McHale, Thomas, aged 13, brother of Michael and John, single man
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| Mercer, Ralph, aged 18
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| Owens, Simon, aged 16
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| Parker, William, aged 16
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| Peat, Thomas, aged 21, single man
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| Prest, Christopher, aged 35, left a wife and 3 children
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| Priestley, Thomas, aged 29, left a wife and one child,
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| Pryor, Thomas, aged 26
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| Ramsay, John, aged 26, single man
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| Ramshaw, Frank, aged 17, single man
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| Richardson, George, aged 29, left a wife and 2 children
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| Richardson, Samuel, aged 17, single man
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| Robinson, Ralph H., aged 17, single man
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| Robinson, William, aged 34, left a wife a one child
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| Sayers, Enoch, aged 18
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| Schier, Herman Carl, aged 23
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| Sharp, Thomas, aged 42, single man
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| Slack, George, aged 21, Hewer, single man
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| Smith, Andrew, aged 23, single man
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| Smith, John, aged 26, left a wife and 2 children
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| Soulsby, Jacob, aged 27, left a wife
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| Soulsby, Robert, aged 60, left a wife
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| Spencer, Edward, aged 19, single man
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| Stobbs, James, aged 31, (or Stobb), left a wife and three children
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| Symonds, George, aged 16
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| Thwaites, Richard, aged 27, single man (widower),
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| Wigham, George, aged 28, left a wife and 3 children
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| Williams, John, aged 31, left a wife and 1 child
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| Williams, William, aged 31, left a wife and 3 children
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| Wilson, John, aged 15, single man
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| Wilson, John, aged 33, left a wife and 3 children
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Sources
Durham Mining Museum
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