Durham Mining Museum - Richard Thwaites

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Richard Thwaites

Age:	27
Died:	16^th Feb 1882
Accident:	16^th Feb 1882 2:30 PM
Year Born:	abt. 1855
Colliery:	Trimdon Grange
Company:	Walter Scott
Occupation:	Deputy
Notes:	single man (widower) ; killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by shot firing)
Buried:	St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe
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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: 1 Overmans Row, Trimdon, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4904 / 39 / 19)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born	Born
LOGAN, John	44	Head	Mar	Overman In Coal Mine	LAN: Liverpool	1837
LOGAN, Elizabeth	33	Wife	Mar		DUR: Hetton	1848
LOGAN, Gibson	21	Son	Unn	Coal Mine	DUR: Trimdon	1860
LOGAN, Thomas	15	Son		Coal Mine	DUR: Trimdon	1866
LOGAN, Isabella	12	Dau		Scholar	DUR: Trimdon	1869
LOGAN, E. Jane	10	Dau		Scholar	DUR: Trimdon	1871
LOGAN, John	8	Son		Scholar	DUR: Trimdon	1873
LOGAN, Robert	6	Son		Scholar	DUR: Trimdon	1875
LOGAN, Richard	4	Son			DUR: Trimdon	1877
LOGAN, James	1	Son			DUR: Trimdon	1880
THWAITES, Richard	23	Bro In Law	Wid	Coal Miner	DUR: Trimdon	1858

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

Kelloe — St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery

Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ345365

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Names in this memorial picture
Name	Died	Age	Born
Jacob BERRYMAN	16^th Feb 1882	33	1849
John ERRINGTON	16^th Feb 1882	33	1849
John HUGHES	16^th Feb 1882	29	1853
Thomas HUNTER	16^th Feb 1882	37	1845
William MADRELL	16^th Feb 1882	40	1842
Christopher PREST	16^th Feb 1882	35	1847
George RICHARDSON	16^th Feb 1882	29	1853
Ralph H. ROBINSON	16^th Feb 1882	17	1865
William ROBINSON	16^th Feb 1882	34	1848
Thomas SHARP	16^th Feb 1882	42	1840
Richard THWAITES	16^th Feb 1882	27	1855


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 St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe
Memorial in St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe


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