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John Firth
| Age: | 33 |
| Died: | 18th Feb 1839 |
| Accident: | 18th Feb 1839 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1806 |
| Colliery: | Whitehaven, William Pit |
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| Notes: | of Charles Street, left a wife and 2 children ; explosion of gas |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 02 Feb 1839 | Explosion of fire-damp, Twenty-three lives lost (The Times) |
| 18 Feb 1839 | Fire Blast, Cumberland Mining District (Annual Register for 1839) |
| 19 Feb 1839 | Explosion Of Fire Damp In William Pit, Twenty-Three Lives Lost (Cumberland Pacquet) |
| 22 Feb 1839 | Explosion of Fire-damp – Twenty-Three Lives Lost, (Abridged from the Cumberland Packet of Tuesday.) (The Times) |
| 23 Feb 1839 | Another Dreadful Explosion Of Fire Damp, Twenty-Three Persons Killed (Whitehaven Herald) |
| 23 Feb 1839 | Dreadful Explosion Of Fire-Damp, In William Pit, Whitehaven, Twenty-Three Lives Lost (Carlisle Journal) |
| 26 Feb 1839 | Coroner's Inquest On The Suffers At William Pit (Cumberland Pacquet) |
- Northumberland & Cumberland Mining Disasters by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2009, ISBN 1-845630-81-5
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JOHN FIRTH was my GGG- Grandfather
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