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Richardson Shields
| Age: | 16 |
| Died: | 18th Feb 1839 |
| Accident: | 18th Feb 1839 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1823 |
| Colliery: | Whitehaven, William Pit |
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| Notes: | of New Houses ; explosion of gas |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Pub.
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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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Joe Shields
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02 Feb 2019 |
my grandfather Thomas Richardson was killed in 1947 William Pit diasaster.this man presumably of irish decent like many Whitehaven people has an interesting combination of both my family surnames which we have not come across before,let alone in my home town! glad to hear from anyone with any info.
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