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Michael Hart
| Age: | 45 |
| Died: | 16th Feb 1882 |
| Accident: | 16th Feb 1882 2:30 PM |
| Year Born: | abt. 1837 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon Grange |
| Company: | Walter Scott |
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| Notes: | left a wife and 7 children ; killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by shot firing) |
| Buried: | East End Cemetery, Trimdon |
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The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.
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1881 Census
Address: 22 Reading Room Row, Trimdon, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4904 / 38 / 17)
| Name | Age | Rel | Mar | Occupation | Where Born | Born |
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| HART, Michael | 44 | Head | Mar | Coal Miner | IRL | 1837 |
| HART, Mary | 46 | Wife | Mar | IRL | 1835 | |
| HART, Catherine | 15 | Dau | DUR: Thornley | 1866 | ||
| HART, Ellen | 13 | Dau | Scholar | DUR: Thornley | 1868 | |
| HART, Margaret | 11 | Dau | Scholar | DUR: Thornley | 1870 | |
| HART, Michael | 9 | Son | Scholar | DUR: Thornley | 1872 | |
| HART, John | 5 | Son | DUR: Trimdon | 1876 | ||
| KEATING, Ann | 66 | Mother In Law | Wid | (Annuitant) | IRL | 1815 |
Please note: the census extracts shown here are our 'best guess match' to the person shown on this page and is not intended to be definitive — only knowledge of the family would allow this.
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| Memorial: 1882 Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster | |
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Trimdon — East End Cemetery
Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ375342
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| Names in this memorial picture | |||
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| Name | Died | Age | Born |
| Henry BURKE | 16th Feb 1882 | 39 | 1843 |
| William BURNS | 16th Feb 1882 | 35 | 1847 |
| Michael HART | 16th Feb 1882 | 45 | 1837 |
| John Francis JONES | 16th Feb 1882 | 38 | 1844 |
| John WILSON | 16th Feb 1882 | 33 | 1849 |
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| Related Articles | |
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 17 Feb 1882 | Disastrous Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 18 Feb 1882 | The Trimdon Grange Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 20 Feb 1882 | The Trimdon Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 24 Feb 1882 | The Catastrophe at Trimdon, The Whole of the Bodies Recovered (Durham County Advertiser) |
| 05 Apr 1882 | Trimdon Grange Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 19 Aug 1882 | Trimdon Grange Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 24 Jan 1931 | Trimdon Disaster Recalled (The Science and Art of Mining) |
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| Further Reading | |
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- Official Report into the 1882 Trimdon Grange Disaster (C.3319)
- Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
- Explosions in Coal Mines by W. N. & J. B. Atkinson, published in 1886
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- 1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
- Church/Cemetery photograph (T-09843-17-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Headstone(s) and Memorial in Trimdon Cemetery
- Memorial in Trimdon Cemetery
- Memorial photograph (T-00073-00-0002) © Kev Duncan
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| Raymond Hart | 25 Feb 2010 |
I am Michaels Gt grandson |
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| Malcolm Conlon | 15 Jun 2011 |
Eleanor Hart Birth Abt 1758 who gave birth to Elizabeth Hart in 1778 at Byers Green. Ancestors on my Fathers side Elizabeth Hart Hart married Stephen Green in 1810, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland. rgds Malcolm |
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| bruce mcfarlane | 02 Jan 2012 |
stephen green is my 3xg grandfather. his granddaughter, alice elizabeth, married my g.grandfather john hart of north shields and new zealand |
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| Eric Hart | 09 Apr 2014 |
My father was Michael Hart - I believe from Trimdon Grange. He was the youngest of (11?) and his brother, John, the oldest was the only one of his siblings I knew. John married Winnie and they had one son. My father moved to Banbury to get work in the 1930's(?) at the new aluminium factory there. He met my mother (May Wood) and they married in Brackley - her home - in 1945. The only other anecdote of his family is that at the age of 8, his own mother died and his father's new wife threw the children out of their home. My father was taken in by the colliery owner's wife - Mrs Elliot (?sp) who brought him up and he got work as a brickie in the collier in Trimdon Grange. |
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