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George Robson
| Age: | 50 |
| Died: | 1st Oct 1858 |
| Accident: | 1st Oct 1858 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1808 |
| Colliery: | Page Bank, Brancepeth |
| Company: | R. W. Jackson, Esq. |
| Occupation: | Deputy |
| Notes: | supposed to have been suffocated by inhaling the smoke entering the mine from the main and quarter brattices and plank tubbing of the shaft being on fire, probably originating from a spark from the furnace igniting soot, &c. ; killed in the 1858 fire |
| Buried: | St. Stephen's Churchyard/Willington Cemetery |
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The text from the Annual Mines Inspectors Report is available in the Reports section of this website.
The text of the report from the Illustrated London News (transcribed by Alan Vickers) is available in the Archives section of this website.
An illustration of the disaster is available at the Coal Mining History Resource Centre run by Ian Winstanley on the Mining Prints page.
Extracts from the Inquest into this death.
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Willington — St. Stephen's Churchyard/Cemetery
Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ210353
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| Name | Died | Age | Born |
| George ROBSON | 1st Oct 1858 | 50 | 1808 |
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 01 Oct 1858 | Fearful Coalpit Accident (The Times) |
| 01 Oct 1858 | Catastrophe At The Page Bank Colliery, Ten Lives Lost (Annual Register for 1858) |
| 02 Oct 1858 | Dreadful Fire In A Colliery (The Times) |
| 02 Oct 1858 | Appalling Fire In The Pit Shaft Of Page Bank Colliery (Newcastle Journal) |
| 04 Oct 1858 | The Fire at the Page Bank Pit (The Times) |
| 09 Oct 1858 | The Page Bank Catastrophe (Morpeth Herald) |
| 14 Oct 1858 | The Fire In the Page Bank Pit (The Times) |
| 14 Oct 1858 | Local Intelligence (North & South Shields Gazette, and Northumberland and Durham Advertiser) |
| 15 Oct 1858 | The Fire at the Page Bank Colliery (The Times) |
| 16 Oct 1858 | The Page Bank Colliery Catastrophe (The Times) |
| 16 Oct 1858 | The Inquest At Page Bank (Newcastle Journal) |
| 16 Oct 1858 | News (Morpeth Herald) |
| 04 Feb 1859 | News (Durham Chronicle) |
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| Further Reading | |
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- Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
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- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 31, Accident Number: 62
- Church/Cemetery photograph (T-02206-04-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Headstone(s) in St. Stephen's Churchyard/Cemetery, Willington
- Tombstone photograph (T-02211-04-0002) © Kev Duncan
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| Researchers | |
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| A. Askew | 27 Sep 2008 |
George Robson was my Great-Great-Grandfather. |
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| Mrs. Ingrid Savage | 03 Apr 2010 |
Family history, family tree George robson was my great, great, great, grandfather. |
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| Sarah Howard | 18 Jul 2013 |
George Robson was my 4x great grandfather |
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| Rob Robson | 06 Mar 2017 |
I am directly descended from George Robson. He was my 2 X great grandfather via my father Kenneth Lynn Robson, his father, Henry Lynn Robson, his father William Dale Robson and son of George Robson. |
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| Lorraine newby | 07 May 2023 |
George Robson was my 3 x great uncle |
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