On Thursday, 16th January 1862 there took place, in the small community of New Hartley, near Blyth in south-east Northumberland, the greatest mining disaster in the history of Britain's coalfields. On that day, 204 men and boys were lost when the giant beam of the pumping engine snapped and twenty tons of cast iron hurtled down the only shaft, blocking all attempts at rescue for several vital days. Nearly all the fatalities were caused by gas which quickly built up in the workings, and the entire community of New Hartley was overwhelmed by the tragedy. Almost every home in the village lost a breadwinner, and in some the coffins were said to have been stacked from floor to ceiling. The funeral that followed on January 26th was remembered for generations - for despite the fact that a few bodies were taken to Cramlington, Cowpen and Seghill for burial, most were buried together in the churchyard at Earsdon, four miles away, and it is said that the last coffin had not left New Hartley when the first was reaching the churchyard, thronged by 60,000 people who had come to stare or to mourn.
This article is intended to give some account of the families involved in the Hartley tragedy. The information is taken mainly, from records at Northumberland County Record Office which holds not only the 1861 Census, taken only nine months before the disaster but also the surviving records of the Hartley Relief Fund which throws some light on the subsequent history of the bereaved families, long after the crowds had dispersed.
Many of the miners lived in the new mining village of New Hartley, close by the Hester Pit (opened in 1845), where the disaster occurred. T. Wemyss Reid, in his graphic description of the rescue efforts, for the Newcastle Daily Journal described it: "as unpicturesque in appearance as possible. It is comprised in two long rows of houses ... in the form of a letter L, with a few small gardens on the other side of he muddy road in front". The long side of the L included the single (or Long) Row, and the Double Row; the shorter side was the Cross Row. There were two outlying rows -- Quarry Row to the North, and Hastings Row to the South. In addition many, miners lived scattered around in hamlets such as Silver Hill or Dairy House, or in the village of Old Hartley some two miles to the east.
No man knew the people of these single-storey rows better than the colliery viewer, Joseph Humble. The viewer's duties were those of a manager who would be responsible for the day-to-day running of the pit, hiring workers, and so on. It was fitting that he had been chosen as census enumerator for much of the area in 1861: he would have known many of the families personally and would have their confidence in recording their details. Incidentally we have been able to find a good number of the miners' families in the 1861 census, but by no means all. Many would have moved into the area at the annual spring hiring in May, and in particular there was a big influx of new families from Scotland up at Quarry Row.
Joseph Humble played a vital role during the anxious days following the closing of the shaft. He it was that kept communications going between the rescuers, led by the renowned 'sinker', William Coulson, and the anxious families at the pithead. He it was that was asked to go down once the way was open and see for himself the huddled rows of bodies with sons cradled for protection in their fathers' arms. His words poignantly expressed the grief sensed by all around him: "Oh, my men, my canny men, they would have done ought for me and there they are all lying dead and cold".
Finally, once the funeral was over, it was Joseph Humble who was given the task of taking the first payments of the relief fund round the rows to the bereaved families. The company gathered everyone together either into the five main rows, or into houses in Old Hartley with the exception of a couple of families in Silver Hill and Dairy House. The fund money poured in from all over the country, and increased rapidly, reaching £50,000 by February 13th and over £75,000 by early April. Apart from special payments for various purposes, it was decided to give 8/6d. weekly to each widow, 12s. to a widow with one child, and 15s. to a widow with two children. Many of the widows remarried but twenty years after the disaster there were still over seventy recipients.
Readers interested in tracing any family in detail would be rewarded by a careful search of the surviving records of the Relief Fund, to be found in Northumberland County Record Office, reference NRO 488, New Hartley Colliery Accident Relief Fund Papers 1862-1903. The collection includes an index to the names of the 'sufferers' (i.e. surviving next-of-kin) and Joseph Humble's first notebook, a complete schedule of 'sufferers' set out by order of houses and rows, with details of payments given in February and March 1862. This notebook is full of informative notes and comments, and most of the details in the lists given below this article have been drawn from it. We did not have time to look at the subsequent lists in detail, but it was immediately apparent that it would be possible to trace the subsequent history of any recipient of relief over a considerable period of time, perhaps twenty or more years if one was lucky. We hope that the details below will at least be sufficient to help the reader decide whether any relationship with one of the Hartley families does in fact exist, but there remains much more to he discovered among the surviving documents.
The 204 victims are listed below. Order is roughly alphabetical but known close relatives are placed in family groups, father first, sons in order of age. Spelling of names is as on the Hartley Memorial Monument in Earsdon churchyard, except in cases where these are clearly wrong. The age at death is given as on the monument, but a number of these were wrong and if so, are given in brackets. We have given more credence to the 1861 Census or the relief fund notebooks, but there seems little doubt that some widows simply did not know their husbands' true ages. Where the address in 1861 is known, this is also given after the victim's age. The exact address of every widow was given in the 1862 relief fund notebooks but many soon moved away after only a week or two, so we have not recorded them here. Under 'next-of-kin' the widow's christian name is given plus, in parentheses, the names and ages of all known children, including babies born after the disaster.
N.B. All places mentioned are believed to be in Northumberland unless otherwise shown. Abbreviations are generally straightforward., bn. = born, a/n = above-named.
Name of Victim | Age, Occupation (other than Miner) and 1861 Address, if known | Next of Kin, and Notes | |
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1. | AINSLEY, John | 19 | Parents John & Elizabeth, apparently both blind, lived at Morpeth. |
2. | ALDERTON, William | 31 | Mary Ann (Sarah 4, James bn. 6 Apr. 1860). By 1881 she lived in Eva Cottages, Magdalen Rd., Norwich, Norfolk. |
3. | ALLAN, William | 36 | Margaret who remarried. (Robert 9, George 7, William 4, John 2, Margaret bn. 22 Dec. 1861.) |
4. | AMOUR James | 43, back-overman, bn. Longbenton; Hastings Row. | Ann (Ann 12, Mary 10, Sarah 8, James 5, dau. bn. 6 Oct. 1862), moved to Seaton Delaval, where living in 1881. |
5. | AMOUR, Richard | 14, son of a/n James. | |
6. | ANDERSON, William | ? 27 | Margaret, who remarried. (Eleanor 13, Jane Arm 11, Hannah 8, Thomas 3.) |
7. | ARMSTRONG, John | 36, bn. Heaton. | Dorothy, n. of Earsdon (2 children). |
8. | ARMSTRONG, Edward | 12, bn. Alnwick, son of a/n John. | |
9. | ARMSTRONG, John | 10, bn. Morpeth, son of a/n John. | |
10. | ATCHISON, Abraham | 20 | Dorothy, who remarried (Eleanor 14, William 7, Richard 3, Elizabeth 9m.) |
11. | BANNAN, William (Bann, Barron) | 24 | Mother, Mary Ann Wears. |
12. | BELL, Mark | 23, bn. High Green. | Father, Mark Bell. miner and widower, 70, native of Warkworth. Mark senr. had one other son, 14 who had lost a leg and was at Delaval School. |
13. | BELL, Thomas | 23, Quarry Row, bn. Tweedmouth | Grandfather, Thomas Bell, 74. |
14. | BELL, Thomas | 13, Quarry Row. Cousin of a/n Thomas, bn. Bamburgh. | Widowed mother Jane Bell. Deceased father's name was John Bell, n. of Belford. Five siblings (Henry 10, Jane 7, George 5, Andrew 3, John 9m.) |
15. | BENNETT, John | 25 | Frances. John Coil (No. 35) and Patrick Sherlock (No. 163) had lodged with the Bennetts. |
16. | BEWICK, James | 34; Silver Hill, bn. Earsdon. | Sarah, 30, n. of Earsdon. (Sarah 9, Ann 5, Mary Jane bn. 3 July 1862.) Sarah continued in New Hartley at least to 1881. |
17. | BEWICK, John | 32; Silver Hill, bn. Earsdon. Bro. of a/n James. | Ann, 30, n. of Earsdon, and mother Sarah Bewick. (John 11, William 9, Sarah 7, Ann 5, James 2.) Ann (widow) died of consumption 1 March 1862. |
18. | BEWICK, Robert | 30; Hastings Row, bn. Earsdon. | Isabella, n. of Bedlington. (Sarah 7, John 2, James 11m.) |
19. | BIRTLEY, Samuel | 24 | Isabella (George 1, Margaret bn. 21 Jan. 1861) |
20. | BLACKBURN, Samuel | 26 | Mary (Luke 2). Mary went to her parents', William Scott of No. 4, Blake Town, Seghill. |
21. | BROADFOOT, John | 19 | Mother Janet Reed alias Broadfoot, lived in Glasgow. |
22. | BROWN, Thomas | 25; Hartley Village. | Martha (Ralph 8m). |
23. | BROWN, Ralph | 15; Hartley Village. Bro. of a/n Thomas. | Orphan, left brother Robert 11, who went to live with widowed sister-in-law Martha, above. |
24. | BROWN, George | 31, brakesman on inclined plane; Hartley Village, n. of Hartley. | Jane, n. of Seaton Sluice. (Ann Burnett 3, Mary Susan 2, George bn. 10 Apr. 1862) Jane's sister was nursing new baby in early weeks of relief fund. |
25. | BROWN, William | 25; Silver Hill, n. of Earsdon | Mary, 25, who remarried. (Frances 2, Jane Isabella 7m.) |
26. | BURN, John | 49 (52) Single Row, n. of Earsdon. | Elizabeth (Elizabeth 12, Mary 10, John 6.) Lived in Newsham Buildings, Blyth, 1881. |
27. | BURN, Thomas | 14 (17) n. of Earsdon. | (Son of John) |
28. | CAMPBELL, James | 28 | Margaret (Alexander 7, Mary 3, Peter 1). Margaret moved to Scotland Gate, Choppington, c/o Peter Young. |
29. | CARLING, George | 27 | Ann (Dennis 6, Ross 4, Ann 3, Agnes 10m). |
30. | CHAMBERS, Thomas | 55 | Margaret (one daughter described as 'delicate'). |
31. | CHAMBERS, Clark | 19 | (Son of Thomas) |
32. | CHEETHAM, Alfred | 33; Single Row, bn. Lanarkshire | Jane, n. of Earsdon (Margaret Ann 6, James 4). |
33. | CLEGHORN, Oswald | 24 | Ann (William 4, Catherine 2. Mary bn. 29 Dec. 1861). |
34. | CLOUGH(CLEUGH), Henry | 47; rolleyway man, had been his first day at Hartley pit. | Mary (Mary 13, Robert 8, Henry 5), lived at Heaton High Pit, (presumably Henry's previous workplace). |
35. | COIL, John | 28 | Irish, no next of kin recorded, lodged with Bennetts. |
36. | COLE, Thomas | 37, deputy overman. | Margaret (Mary Ann 14, Margaret Ann 8, Lizzy ?, Eleanor 5, Francis 1). |
37. | COULSON, John | 33 | Alice (Jane Ann 10, John 5, William 3, James 6m). Alice moved to Willington, Co. Durham. |
38. | COULSON, Robert | 26 | Elizabeth (James 7, Robert 5, William 4m). Elizabeth returned to her birthplace, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. |
39. | COUSINS, John | 16 (18); Double Row, bn. Haltwhistle. | Son of Thomas Cousins, n. of Allendale. |
40. | COUSINS, Robert | 10 (12); Double Row, nn. Allerwash. | (Brother of John) |
41. | CROSS, Philip | 59; Double Row, bn. Newcastle | Frances Allsop, his widowed daughter with 2 children, (Mary Ann 4, Elizabeth 2) and Elizabeth his wife. |
42. | CROSS, Philip | 20; Double Row, bn. South Shields, Co. Durham. | (Son of Philip senr.) |
43. | DAVIDSON, John | 38; rolleyway man, bn. Alnwick. | Susan, bn. Felton (Thomas 8, John 4, Alice 2). |
44. | DAVIDSON, William George | 11; bn. Alnwick | (Son of John) |
45. | DAWSON, Thomas | 49; Hartley Village, n. of Hartley. | Mary (3 daughters, 1 son, George, a carter), moved to Cowpen Quay, Blyth. |
46. | DAWSON, John | 12 | (Son of Thomas) |
47. | DIXON, Robert | 12; Hartley Village, n. of Hartley. | Mother Elizabeth (John 6, Mary 3). Father in lunatic asylum. |
48. | DIXON, William | 27 | Margaret (Mary Ann 9, John 4). died in Hartley Village before 1881. |
49. | DIXON, William | 34 | Single, but had a son, William Jackson, living at Corbridge. |
50. | DOUGLAS, John | 25; Quarry Row, bn. Morpeth. | Sarah (one adopted child). |
51. | DUFFY, Patrick | 34; Irish. | Ann (Irish). (Mary 7, Catherine 4, John 24 Went back to Wakefield May 1862. |
52. | DUFFY, James | 10; bn. Wakefield, Yorks. | |
53. | ELLIOTT, Allison | 29; stoneman, Hastings Row, bn. Seghill. | Elizabeth, bn. Holywell (Mary 7, Henry 6, Ellison 2m). Went to East Holywell. |
54. | ELLIOTT, Edward | 19 | Parents kept a public house in Choppington, nephew of (? John) Armstrong. |
55. | FAIRBAIRN, George | 33 | (Son of William) |
56. | FAIRBAIRN, William | 70 | Margaret, described as a "poor old weak woman", left to live with her son Robert at Cowpen. |
57. | FORD, Henry | 32; Cross Row. | Isabella (son bn. 8 Sep. 1862). |
58. | FORD, John | 27; Cross Row, bn. Lowick, bro. of Henry. | Agnes (Scottish), (Margaret 2, Eleanor bn. 8 Sep. 1862). |
59. | FORD, Peter | 12, nephew of William Oliver (No. 134). | Father Alexander Ford, "an ailing man", 50. (Charlotte 6, Allan or Alexander 3). |
60. | FORSTER, Joseph | 18; Hartley Village, bn. Earsdon. | Orphan. lived with Aunt, Jane Stamp. |
61. | FORSTER, John | 11 Hartley Village. | (Brother of Joseph), 'son-in-law' (i.e. step-- son) of quarryman, John Scurfield. |
62. | FULTON, George | 25 | Mary (John George bn. 20 March 1862), and 60-year-old mother, no name given. |
63. | GALLAGHER, John | 32; Cross Row, bn. Bicker (sic). | Jane (Mary 4, Charles 1). |
64. | GALLAGLIER, Duncan | 28; Cross Row, bn. Bicker | (Brother of John) son of Margaret Gallagher, 77, Irish widow. |
GALLAGHER, James - see TIERNEY, James | |||
65. | GIBSON, Henry | 18; Hartley Village, bn. Seaton Delaval. | William Gibson, his father, who had lost one eye, was bn. at Hartley and worked at a bottle-works. |
66. | GLEDSON, William | 71; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Frances, bn. at Hartley. |
67. | GLEDSON. William | 43; son of a/n William. | Mary (Isabella 13). |
68. | GLEDSON, George | 41; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley, son of a/n William senr. | Mary, bn. Seaton Sluice (Lydia 8). |
69. | GLEDSON, Thomas | 36 son of a/n William senr. | Ann, died in Old Hartley. 1886. |
70. | GLEDSON, Thomas | 16 | (Son of Thomas) |
71. | GLEN, James | 18; Double Row, bn. Northumberland, (parish unknown). | Disabled father Thomas Glen, bn. ? Derrington, (Jane 8, Sarah 5, Robert 3, John 1). |
72. | GLEN William | 14; Double Row, bn. Co. Durham | [ditto] |
73. | GLEN, George | 12; Double Row, bn. Co. Durham | [ditto] |
74. | GORMERLY, Patrick | 25 | No known next-of-kin, lodged with Cross family. |
75. | GRAHAM, Christopher | 27 | Margaret (John 4, Ann 1). |
76. | HALL, George | 28; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Isabella (George 2, Oliver bn. 4 Sep. 1861). lived at Seaton Sluice in 1881. |
77. | HAMILTON, James (HAMELTON) | 56; Scottish. | Mary Jane (William 5), who went back to Bathgate, Linlithgoe. |
78. | HAMILTON, James (HAMELTON) | 12; Scottish. | (Son of James) |
HAMMEL, Peter - see Humble, Peter. This name is definitely mis-spelt on the monument. | |||
79. | HARDING, John | 14½ (20) | Son of George (55) and Mary Harding (52). |
80. | HARRISON, Thomas | 16 | Son of Thomas Harrison, policeman, of North Seaton. |
81. | HAUXWELL, Frank | 25 | Mary (Elizabeth Ann 4m), went to live with her father at Leamside, West Rainton, Co. Durham. |
82. | HAYS, George | 41; Single Row, bn. Gateshead, Co. Durham. | Elizabeth (Hannah 14, Mary Ann 11, Elizabeth 8), by 1881 was at Lydia St. Willington, Co. Durham. |
83. | HEPPLE, Thomas | 27 | Son of James Hepple of North Seaton. Lodged with Thomas Burn. |
84. | HILL, George | 31 | Eliza (John Henry 9, Joseph 6, George 2). John Henry was in the Blind Asylum. Eliza went to her father, Robert Forrester, of Astley St., Duckinfield, Cheshire, where she remarried in 1885. |
85. | HILL, Robert | 21; stoneman. | Son of Robert Hill of Holytown. |
86. | HINDMARSH, George | 30; his first day at Hartley Pit. | Mary (Mary Ann 7½, William 6, Jane 3, Stephen 1½, George bn. 27 May 1862). Mary went to live at North Seaton. |
87. | HODGE. John | 33; Scottish. | Catherine (Archibald 7, Margaret 4, Alice 9m), moved to Wishaw, Scotland. |
88. | HOUSTON, Andrew | 34; Scottish | Mary (Andrew, 8 days), moved to Bathgate, Linlithgoe. |
89. | HOWARD, James | 20 | Son of James Howard, of Bedlington, - a ventriloquist. |
90. | HUMBLE, Joseph | 27; Single Row. | Margaret (two children) and mother, "old Mrs Humble". Nephew of under-viewer, Joseph Humble. |
91. | HUMBLE, Peter | 33; bn. Leics. | Mary Anne (Jane 9, Mary Ann 7, John 3, Margaret 2, Elizabeth bn. 22 Nov. 1861). |
92. | HUNTER, Henry | 13 | Son of Thomas Hunter, "an old man" (one brother, and one sister Elizabeth, bn. 22 Nov. 1861). |
93. | JACQUES (JACK), Winship | 24 | Elizabeth (Isabella 3, Ann 2, Winship Elizabeth 1). |
94. | JOHNSON, Joseph | 41; Quarry Row, bn. Earsdon. | Hannah (3 children). |
95. | JOHNSON, Robert | 42; brother of Joseph. | Son of William Johnson, 76. |
96. | KENNEDY, William | 30 | Elizabeth (James 3, George 1, Sarah Ann bn. 20 Jan. 1862). |
97. | LAWS, George | 20; onsetter; Hastings Row, bn. Hartley. | Mary, his widowed mother. |
98. | LAWS, Thomas | 34; Hastings Row, bn. Hartley. | Mary, his widowed mother (and brother Edward, 9). |
99. | LIDDLE, John | 46 | Catherine (Mary 12, Margaret 9, Elizabeth 5, Emma 4). |
100. | LIDDLE, Thomas | 18; son of above John. | |
101. | LIDDLE, George | 16; son of above John. | |
102. | LIDDLE, John | 11; son of above John. | |
103. | LIDDLE, Thomas | 41; brother of above John senr. | Margaret (Mary Ann 12, Elizabeth 7, Margaret 5). |
104. | LIDDLE, Thomas | 11; son of above Thomas. | |
105. | LIDDLE, William | 40 | Agnes (Peter 10, Mary 8, Abraham 6, Elizabeth 9m). |
106. | LIDDLE, James | 15, son of above William. | |
107. | LIDDLE, William | 17, son of above William. | |
108. | LOGAN (LOUGE), William | 30; Scottish | Ellen (Catherine 7, Sarah 6, Ellen 4, William 3, Patrick 1, Daniel bn. 9 Aug. 1862). They left for Wishaw, Lanarkshire, but Ellen was living at Annitsford in 1881. |
109. | LONG, John | 15; Hartley Village, bn, Hartley. | Parents James (a blind miner) and Mary Ann, (Margaret 11, Robert 9, William 6), all bn. at Hartley. |
110. | LONG, Robert | 17; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Grandparents Robert (shoemaker) and Cousin of above John. Isabella. |
111. | MACAULEY, Thomas | 38; Single Row. | Elizabeth, who left for Wishaw to live with her uncle, David Graham. |
112. | McCLUTCHEY (McCLUSKEY), Richard | 24 | Elizabeth (Isabella 9, John 4, Hamilton 2, Richard James bn. after disaster), went to Bathgate. |
113. | McCRACKEN, William | 24 | No known immediate next-of-kin; had lodged with his uncle, James Hamilton (No. 77), |
114. | McFARLANE, William | 15 | Father - Walter. |
115. | McKEE, John | 55; Quarry Row, bn. Whitehaven (Cumberland). | Mary Ann (Joseph 10, George 6 - died soon after disaster, Edward 2, Mary Jane bn. 13 July 1862), moved back to Whitehaven, May 1862. |
116. | McKEE, Adam | 24; son of a/n John, bn. Whitehaven. | |
117. | McMULLEN, Robert | 27 (36) | Mary, who died of consumption soon after disaster. One surviving child Mary aged 2, went to live with an aunt who was wife of Joseph McPherson of Merrington Lane, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. |
118. | MANDERSON, Peter (or Mathew) | 50; Hastings Row, bn. Scotland. | Elizabeth his wife, was the sister of Joseph Humble the under-viewer; her mother Elizabeth Humble was living with her. (Matthew 2, Peter bn. 3 March 1862.) |
119. | MARLEY, Robert | 23; Hartley Village, bn. Easington Lane, Co. Durham. | Jane |
120. | MASON, Hugh | 24 | No known next-of-kin. Lodged with George Fulton (No. 62). |
121. | MILLER, Walter | 43; stoneman. | Elizabeth, who moved to Wishaw, then to c/o John Paterson, Carfin, nr. Holytown, Scotland. (Janet 12, Thomas 8, James 6, Robert 2, Mary 8m.) |
122. | MILLER, William | 34; stoneman, brother of a/n Walter. | Mary (John 9, Jane 5, James 1). At the time of the first relief payments, one child had 'typhus fever'. |
123. | MORGAN, Andrew | 44 Widower. | One daughter, Dorothy, 17, went to her married sister's - John Pratt, New Lambton, Fence Houses, Co. Durham. |
124. | MULLEN, John | 36 | Ann (Patrick 8, James 6, Mary Ann 4, Catherine 8m). |
125. | MURRAY, Michael | 26 | No next-of-kin known. Lodged with Mullens. |
126. | NESBITT, Peter | 20 | Mother, who lived at Scotswood, nr. Newcastle. Nesbitt was a nephew of Peter Manderson (No. 118). |
127. | NICHOLSON, John | 14; Hartley Village, bn. Westwood Cottage, nr. Hexham. | Parents William (colliery labourer) and Mary. |
128. | NICHOLSON, Joseph | 20; brother of a/n John. | [ditto] |
129. | NICHOLSON, Joshua | 52; Single Row, bn. Earsdon. | Ann (Elizabeth 12, Catherine 9, Joshua 4), lived in Cowpen Quay, Blyth, 1881. |
130. | NORTH, Robert | 26; Quarry Row, Scottish. | Elizabeth (Jane 2). |
131. | NORTH, George | 15 (10); Double Row, bn. Berwick-on-Tweed. | Parents James (60) and Jane (48) with two children surviving (Mary 7, William 5). |
132. | NORTH, John | 12 (14); Double Row, bn. Berwick-on-Tweed. Brother of a/n George. | Parents James (60) and Jane (48) with two children surviving (Mary 7, William 5). |
133. | NORTH, Alexander | 10 (12); [ditto] | [ditto] |
134. | OLIVER, William | 56 | Mary (Ellen 10). Uncle of Peter Ford (No. 59). |
135. | OLIVER, John | 27; son of a/n William. | Ann, who went into service in Newcastle. |
136. | OLIVER, James | 21; [ditto] | Mary (Mary Jane bn. 22 May 1862) |
137. | OLIVER, William | 17; [ditto] | |
138. | OLIVER, Peter | 15; [ditto] | |
139. | ORMISTON, John | 32 | Elizabeth (William. or Henry 10, Mary Ann 1). |
140. | PALMER, William | 35 | Hannah (Caroline 7, Lucy 5. William James 2). |
141. | PAPE, William | 14; nephew of J. Ternent (No. 173). | Father lived in Newcastle. |
142. | PEARSON, Thomas | 28 | Parents Martin and Abigail Pearson of Greenhead, Cumberland. |
RANDAL - see REYNOLDS | |||
143. | REDPATH, William | 24 | Jane (Thomas 5, William 3, James Henry 1, Samuel bn. 17 Sep. 1862). |
144. | REYNOLDS (RANDALL), Robert | 33; Scottish | Ellen (John 8, Andrew 6, Robert 4, James 2, Mary Jane 9m), moved to Bathgate, Linlithgoe. |
145. | RICHARDSON, Alexander | 22 | Margaret. |
146. | RILEY, Hugh | 30 | Isabella (Robert 6, two daughters aged 4 and 1). |
147. | ROBINSON, Mathew | 30 | May (28). (Mary 6. William 2). |
148. | ROBINSON, Thomas | 42 | Martha (Sarah 13, Martha Ann 9, Thomas 1), lived in Hartley Village 1881. |
149. | ROBSON, Ralph | 36; Cross Row, bn. Backworth. | Ruth (Jane Ann 10, Margaret 8, Ralph 6, Thomas 5, George 2, Carr bn. 22 July 1862). |
150. | ROBSON, James | 12; Single Row, bn. Earsdon. | Father Andrew Robson, disabled miner. |
151. | ROSS, Thomas | 46; Hastings Row, bn. South Shields, Co. Durham. | Widower. Had a daughter Margaret (14) who went to stay with John Graham of Seaton Delaval. |
152. | ROWLEY, Edward | 33 | Isabella (Robert 8, James 5, Edward 9m). |
153. | RUTHERFORD, John | 25; Double Row, bn. Bothal. | {Father, John Rutherford, unable to work {and requiring a continual allowance.. {The brothers had stayed with their married {sister, Mary Caisley, before the disaster. |
154. | RUTHERFORD, William | 23; Double Row, bn. Bothal, Brother of a/n John. | |
155. | RUTHERFORD, Thomas | 32; Hastings Row, bn. Scotland. | Jane, bn. Ulgham (Thomas 9, Robert 3). |
156. | SCURFIELD, George | 51; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Parents John and Elizabeth Scurfield, and Ellen, 50, his sister, who "took fits", and died at 10 Tyne St., Newcastle, aged 69. |
157. | SEBASTIAN, Thomas | 19; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Widowed mother Ann Sebastian, lived in Hartley Village. |
158. | SHARP, George | 49; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Elizabeth (James 10, Barnsley 8, Jane 5), who was in North Shields in 1891. |
159. | SHARP, George | 15; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley Son of a/n George. | |
160. | SHARP, George | 13; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. Son of a/n George. | |
161. | SHARP, Henry | 44; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. Deputy overman Cousin of a/n George senr. | Eleanor. |
162. | SHARP, Thomas | 48, brother of a/n Henry. | Eleanor and her mother, Jane Dexter (75). |
163. | SHERLOCK, Patrick | 28 | Edward Sherlock of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. |
164. | SKINNER, George | 14; Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Father, Samuel Skinner, merchant seaman, bn. Alderton, Suffolk. |
165. | SMALL, Robert | 19 | No known next-of-kin. Had lodged with Mary Ann Wears. |
166. | SMITH, Francis | 33 | Jane (Joseph 10, Mary Ann 8, Jane 6, John 3, Sarah 1). Francis had been uncle and adoptive father of William Wilson (No. 196). |
167. | SMITH, William | 19; glassmaker from Seaton Sluice, was visiting pit. | Isabella (William bn. 1 Sep. 1862). |
168. | SOFTLEY, Edward | 17: Hartley Village, bn. Hartley. | Parents Edward and Margaret Softley, with one daughter. |
169. | STAINSBY, Lionel | 23 | Father John Stainsby of 8 Chapel Row, nr. Darlington, Co. Durham. |
170. | STANLEY, William | 34 | Father, James Stanley, lived at Dudley. |
171. | TAYLOR, Joseph | 36 | Margaret (Jane 8, Joseph 2. Ann bn, 12 March 1862), in Old Hartley 1881. |
172. | TELFORD, William | 29 (24) rolleyway man. | Ann, bn. Willington (Eleanor 3, Mary Jane 2, George bn. 11 Feb. 1862). |
173. | TERNENT. John | 44; deputy overman, Hastings Row, bn. Alnwick. | Mary Ann (Margaret 13, Sarah 10, John 8, James 4, Ann 9m, Mary Ann Robinson, adopted dau.). |
174. | TERNENT, George | 11 son of a/n John bn. Trimdon, Co. Durham. | |
175. | TERNENT, William | 40 onsetter Double Row bn. Belsay. | Eleanor (Ann Elizabeth 12, Ellen 9, William 4, Isabella 1). An older son aged 18 was "of weak intellect" and "took fits". |
176. | THIRLWELL, George | 27 | Jane (Caleb 7, Elizabeth 7m, died). |
177. | TIBBS, William | 32; Single Row, bn. Stepney, London. | Elizabeth (Caroline and Thomas, twins, 5, William 2, Stephen 1). |
178. | TIERNEY (alias GALLAGHER), James | 14; Cross Row, bn. St John's?, Co. Durham. | Mother, Margaret Gallagher. James lodged with Duncan Gallagher, (No. 64). |
179. | TRYER, James | 36 | His mother, Susan Tryer of Bolton-le-Moor (? Co. Durham). |
180. | VEITCH, John | 21 | Mary, niece of Elizabeth Macaulay (No. 111). Returned to Wishaw. |
181. | WADE, George | 31 | Jane (Margaret 2m). |
182. | WALKER, Benjamin | 21 | No known next-of-kin. |
183. | WALKER James | 16; Hartley Village bn. Hartley. | Son of Ellen Walker, widow, bn. Hartley. |
184. | WALKER, William | 12; [ditto] | [ditto] |
185. | WALPOLE (WALPOOL), Patrick | 30 | Catherine, who lived at Whitley Row, Earsdon. Payment of relief was withheld - the only example of this in the entire list. No reason given. |
186. | WANLESS, Christopher | 20 | Father, Thomas Wanless |
187. | WANLESS, Thomas | 19; brother of a/n Christopher. | [ditto] |
188. | WANLESS, John | 14; brother of a/n Christopher. | [ditto] |
189. | WATSON, James | 38; Hastings Row, bn. Old Hartley. | Mary. |
190. | WATSON, Joseph | 16; son of a/n James, bn. South Church, Co. Durham. | |
191. | WATSON, John | 38 | Mary (George 10 Jane 8, Sarah 2, John 1m.). |
192. | WATSON, Thomas | 16; son of a/n John. | |
193. | WATSON, Thomas | 31 cousin of a/n John | Eleanor (Elizabeth 6, William 4, John 1). |
194. | WEARS, Robert | 20; Double Row bn. Earsdon | Father, Robert Wears, bn. Ovington. |
195. | WEARS, Thomas | 40 | Ann (Ann 13, Thomas 6, James 3). |
196. | WHITE, William | 16; Hartley Village, bn. Byker Hill Newcastle. | Widowed mother Elizabeth, 40, bn. North Shields. |
197. | WILKINSON, John B. | 23; Single Row, bn. Wallsend. | Frances. |
198. | WILSON, George | 38; rolleyway man. | Elizabeth (Charles 6, William 10, George 4, Thomas bn. 17 July 1862). |
199. | WILSON, William | 16; orphan. | Nephew of Francis Smith (No. 166). |
200. | WILSON, William | 12 | Father, Robert Wilson. |
201. | WYPHER or WYPER, David | 24 | Marian (Peter 7 "deformed and imbecile", granted relief to age 18, Jane 5, Robert 2, David bn. 15 Apr. 1862), went to Wishaw, still there in 1881. |
202. | YOULL, John | 28 | Margaret (Margaret 6, John 4, Jane 2½, Mary 8m), who went to her father, James Quintin, of Town Head St., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. |
203. | YOUNG, John | 15 | Jane (Mary Elizabeth 3, Isabella 1), went to live at Rumbley Hill. |
204. | YOUNGER, Henry | 33; Shoe Row, deputy overman, bn. Earsdon. | Elizabeth (Margaret 3, Jane 1). |
This article was first published in the NDFHS Journal, Volume 7, Number 4, September 1982.