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John Robinson

Age:   49
Died:   9th Oct 1819
Accident:   9th Oct 1819
Year Born:   abt. 1770
Colliery:   Lumley, George Pit
Company:  
Occupation:  
Notes:  
explosion ; killed in the 1819 explosion
Buried:   Chester-le-Street on 10 Oct 1819
Category:  

Description

A dreadful accident happened from the explosion of inflammable gas, in the George pit, near Lumley. The gas ignited at the candle of a hewer named Gee, who had worked into a board, where, owing, it was supposed, to a fall of the roof, a quantity of gas had accumulated from a blower. By this accident eleven men and boys were killed on the spot. Gee and another boy died on the following day of the injury they sustained, and many others were severely hurt.


Burial Register

Burial Record

BURIALS in the Parish of Chester-le-Street, in the County of , in the Year 1819

Page No Name Abode When buried Age By whom the Ceremony
was performed
    660   John Robinson   of Great Lumley   October 10th 1819   49 years   John Dodd
Curate 

Memorial: 1819 Lumley Colliery Disaster

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Memorial

Chester-le-Street on 10 Oct 1819



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-10704-17-0009 and we will make the image available on a temporary page for you to access.

Names in this memorial picture
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Sources
  • Burial register entry courtesy of Julie Thompson
  • Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
  • Memorial photograph (T-10704-17-0009) © Roy Lambeth
  • Parish/Bishop's Transcript's burial records kindly supplied by Julie Thompson

Researchers

Email  Researcher  Date  Interest 
Michael John Robinson   07 Sep 2010 

I am looking for details of John Robinson who was a pitman when married at Wallsend in 1804 or 1806 to Isabella Wilson who was chr.6 March 1784 at Chester Le Street in Durham. He was listed in the church record as being a "native" of Heddon on the Wall. That is all I know of him. I have most of the details of his family and my line down to the modern day.I would appreciate any ideas about John Robinson thanks.


doreen witts   20 Feb 2011 

I am searching for a relative, The Robinson family have lived ibn the locality for many decades, William Robinson 1840 may be a reklative of this person


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