Durham Mining Museum - John Jarvis Lambton

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John Jarvis Lambton

Age:	17
Died:	18^th Apr 1882
Accident:	18^th Apr 1882 1:15 AM
Year Born:	abt. 1865
Colliery:	Tudhoe
Company:	Weardale Iron and Coal Co., Ltd.
Occupation:
Notes:	killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by naked light)
Buried:	[not known]
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: 113 Front Row, Tudhoe, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4958 / 95 / 27)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born	Born
LAMBTON, Samuel	50	Head	Mar	Colliery Clerk	DUR: Pittington	1831
LAMBTON, Mary Ann	53	Wife	Mar		DUR: Monkwearmouth	1828
LAMBTON, John Jervis	20	Son	Unn	Colliery Weigh Clerk	YKS: Middlesborough	1861
LAMBTON, Thomas R.	16	Son	Unn	General Labourer	DUR: Sherburn	1865
LAMBTON, Mary Jane	11	Dau	Unn	Scholar	DUR: Tudhoe	1870
LAMBTON, Samuel Wilson	9	Son	Unn	Scholar	DUR: Tudhoe	1872

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


Memorial

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Names in this memorial picture
Name	Died	Age	Born
Hugh ARMSTRONG	18^th Apr 1882	19	1863
Thomas ARMSTRONG	18^th Apr 1882	15	1867
John BURN	18^th Apr 1882	21	1861
John Jarvis LAMBTON	18^th Apr 1882	17	1865
William LAMBTON	18^th Apr 1882	21	1861
John LAWSON	18^th Apr 1882	16	1866
William PATTISON	18^th Apr 1882	18	1864
Edward ROBERTS	18^th Apr 1882	15	1867
John SLUGGETT	18^th Apr 1882	17	1865
William SMITH	18^th Apr 1882	18	1864
George STEPHENSON	18^th Apr 1882	16	1866


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) and Memorial in York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor
Memorial in York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor


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