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Oxclose Colliery
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
| | |  | | | | Armstrong, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 18, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Bradley, Isaac, 29 Nov 1805, aged 25, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Carr, Robert, 29 Nov 1805, aged 24, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Curry, Henry, 29 Nov 1805, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Davison, Joseph, 29 Nov 1805, aged 26, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Dowell, George, 29 Nov 1805, aged 12, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Dowell, Henry, 29 Nov 1805, aged 18, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Dowell, William, 29 Nov 1805, aged 25, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Dunn, Benjamin, 29 Nov 1805, aged 55, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Errington, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 24, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Frost, Robert, 29 Nov 1805, aged 27, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Hall, James, 29 Nov 1805, aged 24, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Hamilton, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 30, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Harrison, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 26, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Henderson, William, 29 Nov 1805, aged 25, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Johnson, Henry, 29 Nov 1805, aged 26, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Johnson, Ralph, 29 Nov 1805, aged 22, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Knott, Edward, 29 Nov 1805, aged 12, killed in the 1805 explosion, brother of William and Thomas, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Knott, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 15, killed in the 1805 explosion, brother of Edward and William, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Knott, William, 29 Nov 1805, aged 18, killed in the 1805 explosion, brother of Edward and Thomas, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Knox, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 23, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Lake, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 32, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Lake, Robert, 29 Nov 1805, aged 10, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Mason, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 10, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Mason, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 29, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Reay, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 20, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Reay, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 18, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Robinson, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 30, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Sadler, Daniel, 29 Nov 1805, aged 8, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Sadler, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 33, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Thirloway, Ralph, 29 Nov 1805, aged 46, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Todd, John, 29 Nov 1805, aged 28, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Todd, Thomas, 29 Nov 1805, aged 19, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Vazie, William (jnr), 29 Nov 1805, aged 10, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Vazie, William (snr), 29 Nov 1805, aged 34, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Walker, Michael, 29 Nov 1805, aged 35, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Walker, Richard, 29 Nov 1805, aged 33, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Walker, William, 29 Nov 1805, aged 9, killed in the 1805 explosion, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington [More information ...] |
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 more information on some of the fatalities shown above
The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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| 15 Mar 1851 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
| 10 Aug 1853 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | cage in shaft |
| 30 Jul 1855 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | crab ran amain |
| 07 Feb 1859 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of stone |
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Oxclose Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Oxclose Colliery
Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- Headstone(s) in All Saints Churchyard, Penshaw
- Headstone(s) in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington
- Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
- Mineral Statistics for 1860 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
- Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
- Parish Records
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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