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Topic: Madpants Scavenger Hunt Part 2. Everybody Welcome To Join In. (Read 905 times)
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madpants
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One of the fluffy slipper brigade....at last!!
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Thanks Jen,
It was the Harraton, Row pit explosion on the 30th june 1817, they were the Hill family
About eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the carburetted hydrogen gas in the Row pit, at Harraton colliery, on the river Wear, unfortunately ignited, when thirty-eight men and boys lost their lives. It was one of the most violent explosions which had happened for years; corves, trams, and several utensils used at the bottom of the shaft (82 fathoms in depth) being blown into the air, together with the bodies of two of the unfortunate workmen, one with the head off, and the other cut in two in the middle. All the sufferers, except one from Fatfield, belonged to New Painsher, and were buried there on Wednesday, July 2nd. Amongst them were ten belonging to one family, of the name of Hills, viz, the grandfather, his two sons, and seven grandsons. This dreadful accident was caused entirely by the perverse obstinacy of a young man, named John Moody, one of the hewers, who, in defiance of the orders of the overman, refused to use Sir H. Davy's lamp, and lighted a candle, which was twice put out by the workmen whom he was to relieve, but he re-lighted it by unscrewing the lamp, and thus sacrificed his own life, and the lives of his companions. But the painful narrative does not close here: on Wednesday afternoon, some of the workmen went into the Nova Scotia pit, of the same colliery, to repair some part of the shaft which had been injured by the explosion of the Row pit, and not returning in time, another party of men went down to seek them, but were obliged to return without effecting their object, being unable to proceed on account of the great quantity of choke damp which had entered the workings, supposed from the Row pit subsequent to the explosion. The eight workmen who had first gone down were obliged, therefore, to be left to their fate. Their bodies were got out on the following day, six of whom were quite dead; two were still alive, with little hopes of recovery.
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GREENWELL - Durham/N. Yorks
TURNBULL - Durham/N.Yorks
DEVEY - Durham/N. Yorks/Middlesex
MOHAN/HUN - Durham
SCRAFTON - Durham
BROADBENT - Lancashire/Cheshire
HEMSWELL - N. Yorks
SIMPKINS - N. Yorks
SIMPKIN - Suffolk
MALLALIEU - Lancashire/Cheshire
GOODWIN - Lancashire/Cheshire
SUTCLIFFE - Lancashire/Cheshire
PLIMMER - Lancashire/Cheshire/Shropshire
CAMBRIDGE - Lancashire/Cheshire
SIDDALL - Lancashire/Cheshire
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jaywit
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I will find them wherever they are hiding
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Madpants I've just been digging roud and someone has an Edward Turnbull born 1820 in 'Pensher' now where have we heard that before? I wondered if he was related to Robert Turnbull?
D: Edward Turnbull
Born: 8 Aug 1820
Parish, Pensher, Durham, England
Died: 27 Sep 1893
Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, USA
Spouse
Mary Chaytor
Born: 12 Dec 1810 in Parish, Trimdon, Durham, England
Died: 19 Jul 1885 in Pomeroy, [county], Ohio, USA
Marriage: 23 Mar 1840 in Parish St Andrew Auckland, [parish], Durham, England View Info
Children Sex Birth
Anna Turnbull F 27 Dec 1840 in Newfield, Parish St Andrew Auckland, Durham, England
Jane Margaret Turnbull F 11 Jan 1843 in Newfield, Parish St Andrew Auckland, Durham, England
Elizabeth Turnbull F 21 May 1845 in Whitworth Colliery, Parish St Andrew Auckland, Durham, England
John Thomas Turnbull M 22 Dec 1847 in [city], Kanawha, Virginia, USA
Mary Turnbull F 29 Nov 1851 in [city], Meigs, Ohio, USA
Jane Margaret, when you have a Margaret Jane?
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Cross Steeple Claydon Bucks, Jennings Steeple Claydon Bucks, Steel Byfield Northants, Rogers Northants, Wheeler Oxon, Roberts Oxon, Bonham Oxon/ Middleton Cheney Northants, Maycock Northants, Abbott Northants , Newman Northants, Buckingham Bucks, Hart Warks, Newth Gloucs.
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deb usa
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There has to be royalty somewhere!
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ooo Madpants
Keep us updated please!
It was great fun!!! 
deb 
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penfold, orchard, james , richards (travellers/romanies)
middleton, waterfield, skinner,adams, bray (devon, tiverton,silverton areas)
palmer,slack, smith, carnarton (cornwall)
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