Durham Mining Museum - Thomas McHale

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Thomas McHale

Age:	13
Died:	16^th Feb 1882
Accident:	16^th Feb 1882 2:30 PM
Year Born:	abt. 1869
Colliery:	Trimdon Grange
Company:	Walter Scott
Occupation:
Notes:	brother of Michael and John, single man ; killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by shot firing)
Buried:	East End Cemetery, Trimdon
Category:


Description

The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.


Census Data

1881 Census

Address: Trimdon Village, Trimdon, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4904 / 70 / 14)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born	Born
MCHALE, Martin	40	Head	Mar	Coal Miner	IRL	1841
MCHALE, Mary	38	Wife	Mar		IRL	1843
MCHALE, Patrick	20	Son		Coal Miner	DUR: Sedgefield	1861
MCHALE, Michael	18	Son		Coal Miner	DUR: Sedgefield	1863
MCHALE, John	16	Son		Coal Miner	DUR: Sedgefield	1865
MCHALE, Thomas	13	Son			DUR: Sedgefield	1868
MCHALE, Matthew	10	Son			DUR: Sedgefield	1871
MCHALE, Martin	5	Son			DUR: Sedgefield	1876
MCHALE, Edward	4	Son			DUR: Sedgefield	1877
MCHALE, Elizabeth	1	Dau			DUR: Trimdon	1880
HOBURN, John	22	Boarder	Mar	Limestone Quarryman	IRL: Mayo	1859
HOBURN (MCHALE), Mary	18	Dau	Mar		DUR: Sedgefield	1863
HOBURN (MCHALE), Thomas	3m	Son (Grand			DUR: Trimdon

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.


Memorial: 1882 Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster


Memorial

Trimdon — East End Cemetery

Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ375342

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Names in this memorial picture
Name	Died	Age	Born
John ALLISON	16^th Feb 1882	19	1863
George Colling BURNETT	16^th Feb 1882	19	1863
James White BURNETT	16^th Feb 1882	17	1865
Joseph Whitfield BURNETT	16^th Feb 1882	23	1859
Richard DAWE	16^th Feb 1882	20	1862
Michael DOCHERTY	16^th Feb 1882	19	1863
David GRIFFITHS	16^th Feb 1882	19	1863
John MCHALE	16^th Feb 1882	16	1866
Michael MCHALE	16^th Feb 1882	21	1861
Thomas MCHALE	16^th Feb 1882	13	1869
Thomas PEAT	16^th Feb 1882	21	1861
Edward SPENCER	16^th Feb 1882	19	1863


Related Articles

Pub. Date	Article (Newspaper)
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)


Further Reading

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


Sources

1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
Headstone(s) and Memorial in Trimdon Cemetery
Memorial in Trimdon Cemetery


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