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James Kelly Ayack
| Age: | 24 |
| Died: | 26th Sep 1876 |
| Accident: | 26th Sep 1876 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1852 |
| Colliery: | Wheatley Hill |
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| Occupation: | Collier |
| Notes: | explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Killed by an explosion of gas in the barrier way in main coal seam. Quinn holed his bord into an old drift from the Greenhill goaf, which was full of gas, and on the rise side of a 33 feet fault, naked lights being used at the time.
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Thornley — St. Bartholomew's Churchyard
Location: OS Map 93, Grid Ref NZ360396
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| Names in this memorial picture | |||
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| Name | Died | Age | Born |
| William Edward Johns ABRAM | 26th Sep 1876 | 16 | 1860 |
| James Kelly AYACK | 26th Sep 1876 | 24 | 1852 |
| George Dixon DOBINSON | 26th Sep 1876 | 34 | 1842 |
| Thomas QUINN | 26th Sep 1876 | 22 | 1854 |
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- Memorial photograph (T-00014-00-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Tombstone(s) and Memorial in Churchyard, Thornley
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