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John Lawson
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.
1881 Census
Address: 98 Church Street, Tudhoe, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4958 / 60 / 37)
| Name | Age | Rel | Mar | Occupation | Where Born | Born |
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| LAWSON, John | 41 | Head | Mar | Coal Miner | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1840 |
| LAWSON, Esther | 39 | Wife | Mar | | DUR: South Hetton | 1842 |
| LAWSON, Matthew | 18 | Son | Unn | Coal Miner | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1863 |
| LAWSON, Henry | 17 | Son | Unn | Coal Miner | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1864 |
| LAWSON, John | 14 | Son | Unn | | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1867 |
| LAWSON, Mary | 12 | Dau | | Scholar | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1869 |
| LAWSON, Jane | 10 | Dau | | | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1871 |
| LAWSON, Margaret | 4 | Dau | | | DUR: Tudhoe | 1877 |
| LAWSON, Elizabeth | 2 | Dau | | | DUR: Tudhoe | 1879 |
| LAWSON, Francis | 8 | Son | | Scholar | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1873 |
| LAWSON, William | 6 | Son | | Scholar | DUR: Quarrington Hill | 1875 |
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 Tudhoe Colliery Disaster
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Spennymoor — Holy Innocents Churchyard (Church Demolished)
Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ268340
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| Name | Died | Age | Born |
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| John LAWSON | 18th Apr 1882 | 16 | 1866 |
Pub.
Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 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) |
- 1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
- Church/Cemetery photograph (T-04482-08-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Headstone(s) and Memorial in York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor
- Headstone(s) in Holy Innocents Churchyard, Spennymoor
- Tombstone photograph (T-04476-08-0002) © Kev Duncan
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Dawn Horwood - nee Sanderson
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25 Feb 2013 |
Looking for ancesters of my grandfather John Lawson, he was a miner in Durham in 1930's/1940s but he joined the army originally using his mothers maiden name Sanderson which he kept.
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