John Crosby
| Age: | 18 |
| Died: | 11th Oct 1799 |
| Accident: | 11th Oct 1799 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1781 |
| Colliery: | Lumley |
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| Notes: | killed in the 1799 explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A violent explosion took place in Lumley colliery, in the county of Durham, by which dreadful catastrophe thirty-nine human beings were launched into eternity.
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Memorial: 1799 Lumley Colliery Disaster
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- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
- Memorial photograph (T-10704-17-0009) © Roy Lambeth
- Parish Records
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