Robert Symm
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| Died: | 1st May 1835 |
| Accident: | 1st May 1835 |
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| Colliery: | Whitley |
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| Notes: | fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf ; killed in the 1835 disaster |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A man named Robinson, and five boys, were unfortunately killed at three o'clock on the morning, whilst in the act of descending the pit at Whitley colliery, in consequence of the hook which is appended to the chain not having been properly put into the bow of the corf which the unfortunate sufferers were in, by which oversight they fell from the top to the bottom of the pit, a depth of forty five fathoms. Verdict :— Accidental death, with a deodand of one shilling upon the corf.
- Northumberland & Cumberland Mining Disasters by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2009, ISBN 1-845630-81-5
- 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.
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