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Thomas Knott
| Age: | 15 |
| Died: | 29th Nov 1805 |
| Accident: | 29th Nov 1805 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1790 |
| Colliery: | Oxclose |
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| Notes: | brother of Edward and William ; killed in the 1805 explosion |
| Buried: | Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington |
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An explosion took place in Oxclose colliery, by which unfortunate accident thirty-eight human beings were hurried into eternity, and eighteen widows and seventy children were thrown upon the charity of the public.
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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.
- Parish Records
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