logo Museum
Museum
Friends of Durham Mining Museum
Events Calendar
e-Books and Books for sale
Photograph Gallery
Document Archive
Master Name Index
What's new in the site
Donate to support the Museum
Mining
Mining History
Colliery Index
Colliery Maps
Company Overviews
Who's Who
Mineral Information
Managers Certificates
Educational Material
Bibliography
Statistics
Workers/Employee Lists
Notes for Family Historians
War Service information
Disasters
Disaster Reports
Names of those killed
Disasters in the 1700s
Disasters in the 1800s
Disasters in the 1900s
Memorials
Awards for Gallantry
On this day ...

Links to other sites of interest
Industrial Heritage Days Out
Former www.pitwork.net web site

Index to site

Contact and address details

Share Page with Social Media

Share on Facebook

Share with Reddit

Share on Delicious

  Individual Details   Individual Details  
 


Henry Defty

Age:   36
Died:   24th Oct 1887
Accident:   24th Oct 1887
Year Born:   abt. 1851
Colliery:   Walker
Company:  
Occupation:   Shifter
Notes:  
killed in the 1887 disaster [explosion of coal dust, firedamp and air]
Buried:   Christ Church Churchyard/Cemetery, Walker
Category:  

Census Data

1881 Census

Address: New Row, Wingate, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4970 / 55 / 67)

Name Age  Rel  Mar Occupation Where Born Born
DEFTY, Henry 29HeadMarCoal Miner DUR: Wingate  1852
DEFTY, Elizabeth A. 27WifeMar DUR: Jarrow  1854
DEFTY, Elizabeth J. 6DauScholar YKS: Wombwell  1875
DEFTY, Robert R. 5SonScholar YKS: West Ardsley  1876
DEFTY, Emanuel 3Son DUR: Boldon  1878
DEFTY, Henry 9mSon DUR: Wingate  

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: 1887 Walker Colliery Disaster

Memorial Image Memorial Image Memorial Image Memorial Image Memorial Image Memorial Image Memorial Image


Memorial

Walker — Christ Church Churchyard/Cemetery

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ288645




This is a low resolution image for web display, if you would like to have a higher resolution image, then please us quoting reference T-02891-06-0002 and we will make the image available on a temporary page for you to access.
[The image has been requested once before]

Names in this memorial picture
NameDiedAgeBorn
Joseph COCKBURN  24th Oct 1887  40  1847 
Henry DEFTY  24th Oct 1887  36  1851 
John DIXON  29th Aug 1887  40  1847 
Anthony HOGG  24th Oct 1887  25  1862 
John HYLTON  24th Oct 1887  27  1860 
James MCMULLEN  24th Oct 1887  31  1856 
John PICKARD  24th Oct 1887  56  1831 
William RICHARDSON  24th Oct 1887  36  1851 
Robert Laverick WILSON  24th Oct 1887  28  1859 

Related Articles

Pub.
Date		Article (Newspaper)
25 Oct 1887  Colliery Disaster (The Times)
26 Oct 1887  The Walker Colliery Explosion (The Times)

Further Reading

  • Northumberland & Cumberland Mining Disasters by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2009, ISBN 1-845630-81-5

Sources
  • 1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
  • 1887 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5450) Where to find this report
  • Church/Cemetery photograph (T-07462-11-0002) © Kev Duncan
  • Memorial in Walker cemetery
  • Memorial photograph (T-02891-06-0002) © Kev Duncan

Researchers

Email  Researcher  Date  Interest 
HARRY MASSEY   12 Aug 2021 

GREAT NEPHEW OF HENRY DEFTY

If you are researching Henry Defty (e.g. for family tree purposes) and you would like to hear from others with the same interest then please complete the details in the following form. We will show the information you provide on this page so that you can be contacted.

What is your name?
What is your contact email address?
What is your research interest?

 

Return Return   Return Return to Top

 
mail
Mail:
Webmaster
Back
Back 		Home
Home 		Open Government Licence   Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Copyright © 1999-2024 by The Durham Mining Museum and its contributors
Registered Charity No: 1110608
Page last updated: 31 Dec 2022

Privacy Policy
  		Terms & Conditions
 
Search
Search 		Print
Print