Durham Mining Museum - Hugh Armstrong

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Hugh Armstrong

Age:	19
Died:	18^th Apr 1882
Accident:	18^th Apr 1882 1:15 AM
Year Born:	abt. 1863
Colliery:	Tudhoe
Company:	Weardale Iron and Coal Co., Ltd.
Occupation:
Notes:	killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by naked light)
Buried:	St. Charles (RC) Churchyard, Tudhoe Village
Category:


Description

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

Extracts from the Inquest into this death.


Census Data

1881 Census

Address: Tudhoe Colliery High Road, Tudhoe, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4958 / 126 / 19)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born	Born
ARMSTRONG, Hugh	40	Head	Mar	Miner Coal	IRL: Fermna	1841
ARMSTRONG, Bridget	38	Wife	Mar		IRL: Carlow	1843
ARMSTRONG, Hugh	19	Son	Unn	Miner Coal	STS	1862
ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth	16	Dau		Scholar	STS	1865
ARMSTRONG, Thomas	14	Son		Scholar	STS	1867
MCGILLION, Peter	44	Boarder	Unn	Labourer	IRL: Tyrone	1837
MCGILLION, Pat	28	Boarder	Unn	Fireman	IRL: Tyrone	1853

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 Tudhoe Colliery Disaster


Tombstone

Tudhoe — St. Charles (RC) Churchyard

Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ263353

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Names on this tombstone
Name	Died	Age	Born
Hugh ARMSTRONG	18^th Apr 1882	19	1863
Thomas ARMSTRONG	18^th Apr 1882	15	1867


Related Articles

Pub. Date	Article (Newspaper)
19 Apr 1882	Fatal Colliery Explosion (The Times)
20 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
21 Apr 1882	The Colliery Explosions (The Times)
22 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
24 Apr 1882	The Colliery Explosions (The Times)
25 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
30 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
25 May 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
30 Aug 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
20 Apr 1891	The Tudhoe Colliery Disaster Memorial (The Middlesbrough Daily Gazette)


Further Reading

Official Report into the 1882 Tudhoe Colliery Disaster (C.3327)
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) in St. Charles (R.C.) Churchyard, Tudhoe


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