	Auldhouseburn Colliery	Index	Auldhouseburn Colliery

Auldhouseburn Colliery

Location:	Muirkirk 15½ miles [25 km] SW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 71 Lanark and Upper Nithsdale) NS704271, 55° 31' 16" N, 4° 3' 6" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Barr and Co.
	J. C. Simpson
	Cairntable Gas Coal Co.
	Cairntable Gas Coal Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 145 (106 below, 39 surface)
	1896 - 77 (59 below, 18 surface)
	1900 - 79 (63 below, 16 surface)
	1905 - 131 (109 below, 22 surface)
	1910 - 118 (96 below, 22 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Nine Feet, Seven Feet
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Brown, Robert, 11 Jan 1907, aged 17, Drawer, When returning from work a runaway race of empty hutches which had not been coupled to the rope at top of dook, ran into them. Another man going to his work was injured [More information ...]
						Clark, Charles, 27 Nov 1873, aged 17, Collier, Fell down the shaft (32 fathoms) when making repairs
						Dempsey, John, 23 Sep 1891, aged 42, Drawer, Ignition of shot which he is supposed to have been stemming with a jumper
						Gennell, William, 11 Mar 1898, aged 47, Miner, A miner holed through on old workings containing water, owing to the failure to keep boreholes in advance in terms of General Rule 13 [More information ...]
						Gilmour, James, 11 Jun 1881, aged 26, Roadsman, Fell off the cage, as appeared to his fellow workmen, in a swoon
						Hazel, John, 11 Mar 1898, aged 33, Miner, A miner holed through on old workings containing water, owing to the failure to keep boreholes in advance in terms of General Rule 13 [More information ...]
						Hazel, Robert, 11 Jan 1907, aged 17, Miner, When returning from work a runaway race of empty hutches which had not been coupled to the rope at top of dook, ran into them. Another man going to his work was injured [More information ...]
						Murray, Richard, 11 Dec 1893, 5 p.m., aged 25, Miner, Fall of coal
						Straw, James, 11 Mar 1898, aged 20, Drawer, A miner holed through on old workings containing water, owing to the failure to keep boreholes in advance in terms of General Rule 13 [More information ...]

						9 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Scotland, West District by William Alexander, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Scotland, West District by William Alexander, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department