George Sharp, 4 Church Street, (not 2 School Street as in official list) John Barrass had been taken down the pit by his father on the fateful day to have his first look at what would soon become his workplace. George Heslop, 20, Putter Henry Willis The project ran from October 2009 to March 2010 and resulted in the creation of online indexes to a number of the records in the DMA collection. active it was possible for a miner to work in a different mine (locally) each year! The list of marked men was reduced to just 10, the leading unionists. 26. The above were father and son, 73. The DMA had to advise the Seaham Lodge to accept that the 10 men must become ‘Sacrificed Members’ who would give up their colliery houses within a month. The owners of the colliery at the time were listed as Thomas Wood Rowland Webster, John Gully & John Burrell. Thornley Wesleyan Methodists, Baptisms 1867-1936 E.Hall and J.Lonsdale died at half-past 3 in the morning.W.Murray and W.Morris and James Clarke visited the rest on half-past nine in the morn and all living in the incline,

Jane Pearce, Servant, wid, 47, Housekeeper, Penrith The death of one collier started a train of events which led to an immense tragedy. However, the DMA believes that it was right to fight the case on behalf of its members who after all had agreed to a seven-and-a-half per cent levy (up to a limit of £1,000) from previously successful claims won by the DMA's solicitors, Thompsons, in former coal compensation cases. None of these however was mentioned again in later censuses so the information is almost useless to us. The main source for the following notes was: “The Miners of Northumberland & Durham”, by Richard Fynes, 1873. 82.
J.H.B. Fortunately for posterity and local historians the enumerators of that year thoughtfully explained the changes in street names which had occurred since the last census: Wood Row became Villiers Street and 5th. He gave the other rows different names which proved to be shortlasting, like Back Road, High Row and Mechanics Row. Between 1844 and 1864 there was a monthly Bond. He was also Chairman of Seaham Magistrates and a member of the Easington Guardians (Work House). There was another county-wide coal strike in 1879, the first major confrontation since the the Great Strike of 1844 and, as usual, the miners were defeated. 59. By 1906 Shotton Colliery Mark II was producing 392,000 tons a year from 1163 employees and the village was full again. The first coal from Seaton was only drawn on March 17 1852, after almost seven years of battles against flooding and quicksand. The Londonderry Seaham & Sunderland Railway opened in 1855. He described everything as ‘Shotton Colliery’. Lucy Anderson, 55, Independent Means, N

Nationally up to the first week in June of this year £1.07bn has been awarded in CB&E claims and £972m awarded in VWF.This undoubted triumph could not have been possible without the unique partnership which had been established between Thompsons Solicitors and the Durham Area NUM. Londonderry then began his own Seaham Colliery alongside. 7th. He was a deep thinker with a keen analytical mind and a determined will. Model Row: Presumably the builders and owners were proud of this street and gave it a magnificent title.Or maybe they had just run out of names! The inquest was held at the Mill Inn with Mr.Morton, Agent of the Earl of Durham, present.
California Row: 1849 saw the California Gold Rush. Thomas Johnson, 26 Henry Street

John Barrass, 10, Sinkers Row in 1841. William Hartley, 8 Model Street Edward Potter, Viewer of Murton Colliery (Resident at South Hetton as manager of that concern in 1841). George Hopper, 20 Post Office Street At Murton the chain was changed for another one connected to Haswell fixed engine house.

Nineteen survivors from the Main Coal seam were brought up the Low Pit shaft which was not blocked at the level of that seam. Applying our knowledge that the Bond was usually signed on /about April 5 in this period we can conclude that James Hogarth senior must have signed the Bond at Haswell in April 1866 and at Seaham in April 1867. By a sad coincidence his son Michael did die on the same day as the disaster. The preparatory working for the sinking of Seaton Colliery or the High Pit began on July 31 1844. Albert Palmer, Servant, 14, Page, Wortwell Harburton, Norfolk For the nineteenth century and before the information we provide will be sufficient Since the war much of old Murton, including ‘Cornwall’ has been demolished to make way for council housing. He mentioned Rawsthorn Terrace, Inman Street, Silverdale Street, Morley Street, Front Street (Low Side), Thomas Street, Clarence Street, Braddyll Street, Dyke Row, Gale Street, Richmond Street, South Street and ‘Eight Rows’ which consisted of James Street, Smith Street, White Lion Street (called Hall Street on the map of 1897) and Forster Street. Jacob Fletcher, 22 Church Street (not 23 as in official list) The magistrates duly obliged, sentencing all 68 to 6 weeks imprisonment. The seam was not reopened until the following June when breathing apparatus and Fleuss’s patent lamp were used by explorers. This has enabled us to secure the future of the Big Meeting and create a compensation scheme which is second to none.As a result common-law damages both for VWF and CB&E have been pursued.

Even then the rescuers had to use the emergency kibble (an iron bucket) for the cages were of course out of action. Arrest warrants were issued against 68 men for absenting themselves from their employment on November 23. The village somehow survived another nine years until the arrival of the Cavalry.

All of these informed the court that tried them that they would prefer to go to jail rather than work under the Bond. To use this tool, you need not visit any distant record repository or consult any learned tome or index. It was lumped with Old Seaham for census purposes until relatively recently. At this distance in time it is difficult to tell who owned what. 7. Old Shotton dates back to at least AD900, when it was known as Scitton. Like her late husband the Marchioness was infamous for her parsimony and yet on March 1 1856 this complex character entertained between three and four thousand of her pitmen at Chilton Moor. John Bates For 13 years the villagers of Old Seaham and Seaton had to share St. Mary the Virgin with swarms of rough mining folk. collieries using our web site.

The oil in some of their lamps was found to be exhausted, showing that they had continued to burn for some hours, possibly days, after the explosion. An extension of the Braddyll Railway to Haswell further linked that booming community to South Hetton and on to the new port and town of Seaham Harbour.

Mary Noble, Servant, 31, Lady’s maid, Netherton, Lincs.

Mark Foster, 1 Doctor’s Street Please note that there is no database of mining employment available! Thomas Hutchinson, 18 Seaham Street Rows at Greenhill became Pilgrim Street

increased. Bertram R. S. P, s, 25, Teacher (B.A. Lucy Martina Bree, Visitor, 23, Myton, Yorks. which we have information within a 5 mile (8 km) radius of each other. At the end of that same year of 1831 another stoppage took place at Waldridge Colliery, near Chester-le-Street. Anthony Ramshaw, 46 Seaham Street He retired undefeated to become landlord of a London pub and racehorse owner. However, he also objected to the return contribution scheme operated by the Durham Miners. Joseph Lonsdale jun., 28 William Street (not 2 as in official list)