Durham Mining Museum - John Blanchard

John Blanchard

Age:	39
Died:	18^th Dec 1817
Accident:	18^th Dec 1817
Year Born:	abt. 1778
Colliery:	Rainton, Plain Pit
Company:
Occupation:
Notes:	of West Rainton ; killed in the 1817 explosion
Buried:	on 21 Dec 1817


Description

An explosion took place in the Plain pit, at Rainton colliery, when twenty seven persons (eleven men and sixteen boys) lost their lives ; the accident took place before all the workmen had descended to their work ; had it occurred a little time later, there would have been upwards of one hundred and sixty men and boys in the pit, most of whom, it is probable would have perished.


Burial Register

Page	No	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
BURIALS in the Parish of Houghton le Spring, in the County of Durham, in the Year 1817
	593	John Blanchard	West Rainton	Dec 21	39	M. Rawes Curate
(From entry 601) N.B. The 22 Burials which immediately precede this were occasioned, together with 4 other corpses who are interred at Chester le Street, by an explosion of Fire Damp in the Plane Pit in this parish as specified in the Coroners certificate of inquest (Daniel Crossthwaite)


Sources

Burial register entry courtesy of Julie Thompson
Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
Parish/Bishop's Transcript's burial records kindly supplied by Julie Thompson


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