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James Rudd
| Age: | 38 |
| Died: | 20th Aug 1894 |
| Accident: | 17th Aug 1894 6:30 PM, 2nd hour of shift |
| Year Born: | abt. 1856 |
| Colliery: | Black Boy |
| Company: | Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | Burnt by an explosion of gas; he went through a fence with a naked light. Died on the 20th instant |
| Buried: | St. James' Churchyard, Coundon |
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The two fatal cases also occurred in the western portion of the district at collieries where, as a rule, gas is rarely seen. The first, which is No. 47 on the list, occurred about 6.30 o'clock p.m. on the 17th of August last at Black Boy Colliery, near to Bishop Auckland, causing the death of John Rudd, a coal hewer.
On the 15th of August, or two days before the accident occurred, the deputy, being the competent person appointed under General Rule 4, on making his inspection of the places, before the shift commenced found a small portion of gas and stythe in one of them, rising four inches to the yard, and he placed a fence across it. This gas appears to have remained in the place until the day of the accident.
Deceased was working in a dip place, almost opposite, with a naked light, and it was alleged he had gone through a fence, into the place where the gas was, and it lit up at his candle; the deceased, however, who lived for two days, said he had never been through the fence, but, having heard a fall at a "hitch," on the out-bye side, he went to remove the fallen stone, when some gas, in the hole made by the fall, exploded at his candle severely burning him, and causing such injuries that he afterwards died.
At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that the deceased man met his death, accidentally, through an explosion of gas; stated that they did not think he had been through the fence, and recommended that safety lamps be used in all cases, in future, where gas is present.
Whether this man went through the fence or not, it is difficult to say, and I should not like to express an opinion, but with the recommendation of the jury, that safety lamps be used, in future, in all cases where gas is present, I cordially agree. If they had been used in this case, this death would not have been to record. Since it occurred safety lamps have been used in the district, of the seam, in which this fatality happened.
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Coundon — St. James' Churchyard
Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ236298
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| Names on this tombstone | |||
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| Name | Died | Age | Born |
| Ann RUDD | 10th Apr 1889 | 0 | 1889 |
| James RUDD | 20th Aug 1894 | 38 | 1856 |
| Jane Ann RUDD | 13th Feb 1896 | 6 | 1890 |
| Margaret Mary RUDD | |||
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- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 11 Where to find this report
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 42, Accident Number: 47 Where to find this report
- Church/Cemetery photograph (T-04509-08-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Headstone(s) in St. James' Churchyard, Coundon
- Tombstone photograph (T-04523-08-0002) © Kev Duncan
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| Diane O'Shea | 15 Jul 2012 |
My grandmother Margaret Helen Rudd was from Black Boy Brickyard. I'm wondering if this was her brother or her father? Thank you! |
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| Melita Morgan | 25 Jun 2018 |
James Rudd is an ancestor of mine and I've been reserching and filling in the ancestors profiles birth records censes etc on my ancestry.com account under Username MelitaMorgan should anyone wish to view. James originally came from and grew up in Norwich Norfolk. |
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