Durham Mining Museum - Charles Thomas Applegarth

Charles Thomas Applegarth

Age:	33
Died:	20^th Feb 1908
Accident:	20^th Feb 1908 9:30 p.m.
Year Born:	abt. 1875
Colliery:	Washington, Glebe Pit
Company:	Washington Coal Co. Ltd.
Occupation:
Notes:	killed in the 1908 explosion (ignition caused by shot firing)
Buried:	Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherburn


Description

The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.

Photographs of those killed and futher individual details on the victims can be found here.


Census Data

1881 Census

Address: Mordon Village, Mordon, Co. Durham
(Ref: RG11 / 4901 / 49 / 14)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born	Year
THOMPSON, William	37	Head	Mar	Railway Lab	DUR: Bog Mall	1844
THOMPSON, John	22	Son	Mar	Railway Lab	DUR: Mordon	1859
THOMPSON, Sarah J.	24	Dau-in-Law	Mar	Railway Lab Wife	DUR: Standrop	1857
APPLEGARTH, Thomas	6	Grand Son		Scholar	DUR: Standrop	1875
THOMPSON, Annie	3	Grand Dau			DUR: Mordon	1878
THOMPSON, M.E.	1	Grand Dau			DUR: Mordon	1880

1901 Census

Address: Sherburn, Co. Durham

Name	Age	Occupation	Where Born	Year
APPLEGARTH, Thomas	26	Coal Miner	DUR: Staindrop	1875
APPLEGARTH, Mary A.	27		DUR: Usworth	1874
APPLEGARTH, Thomas	2		DUR: West Auckland	1899
APPLEGARTH, Edith A.	1		DUR: Sherburn	1900

Please note: the census extracts shown here are our 'best guess match' to the fatality shown on this page and is not intended to be definitive — only knowledge of the family would allow this.


Tombstone

Sherburn — Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Location: OS Map 88, Grid Ref NZ317423

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Names on this tombstone
Name	Died	Age	Born
Charles Thomas APPLEGARTH	20^th Feb 1908	33	1875
Mary Alice APPLEGARTH
Tom APPLEGARTH	8^th Jul 1901	2	1899


Additional Notes

Baptised:	13 November 1874
Parents:	Sarah Jane Applegarth
Wife:	Mary Alice Standish

Thanks to Neil G. Wainwright for this additional information.


Related Newspaper Articles

22 Feb 1908	Fatal Colliery Explosion, Fourteen Lives Lost (The Times)
24 Mar 1908	The Washington Colliery Accident (The Times)


Further Reading

Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Explosion (Cd 4183)


Sources

1881 Census — taken 3rd April, 1881
1901 Census — taken 31st March, 1901
Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Explosion (Cd 4183)
Picture extracted from the Washington Glebe Disaster Postcard showing images of those who were killed, the postcard and futher individual details on the victims can be found here.

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