Ruby TURNER

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1911 RG14 29940 81 at 29 Katherine Street Brancepeth Colliery dau single aged 8 born Willington

Birth:
1911 Census

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1881 RG11 4959 78 at 42 Albert Street Willington son single aged 1 born Willington
1891 RG12 4102 69 at 42 Albert Street Willington son single aged 11 born Willington
1901 RG13 4681 114 at 27 Wear Street Willington head married coal hewer aged 21 born Willington
1911 RG14 29940 81 at 29 Katherine Street Brancepeth Colliery 4 rooms head married coal miner stone man aged 31 born Willington

Birth:
1881 Census

James married Margaret Ann CHARLTON in 1899. Margaret was born in 1879 in Willington Co Durham. [Group Sheet]

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1901 RG13 4681 114 at 27 Wear Street Willington wife married aged 22 born Willington
1911 RG14 29940 81 at 29 Katherine Street Brancepeth Colliery wife married 11 years 4 children born alive all still living aged 32 born Willington

Birth:
1901 Census

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Married:
FreeBMD Dec 1899 Durham 10a 646

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1851 HO107 2391 358 at 109 Durham Road Sherburn Hill son single aged 5 born Kelloe
1861 RG9 3745 96 at New Row Willington son single driver aged 15 born Kelloe
1871 RG10 4964 44 at Frankland Colliery Houses son single coal miner aged 25 born Hallgarth Street
1881 RG11 4959 78 at 42 Albert Street Willington head married coal miner aged 35 born Cassop
1891 RG12 4102 69 at 42 Albert Street Willington head married coal miner aged 45 born Cassop

Birth:
1881 Census

Died:
Durham Mining Museum website - killed in explosion on main haulage road in mine. Ignition caused by shot firing.

Extract from Report on the Brancepeth Colliery disaster by NHN as published in the Crook Circuit Wesleyan Methodist magazine Vol 7 no 5 dated May 1896.

The men lost in the Jet seam were Michael Turner and Joseph Brigham, both shifters; boys, Thomas Carling and Bartholomew Newall.
Michael Turner was 51 years of age and leaves a widow and ten children. Unfortunately, Mrs Turner has only one arm, yet her cleverness, as well as her industry, has won for her the admiration and esteem of her neighbours and all who know here. Her case is worthy of much sympathy, for out of her ten children, only one, a boy about 13 or 14 years of age, is able to work. Michael Turner, so his son affirms, many times said that if he should ever be in an explosion he would wet his handkerchief and keep it over his mouth as a protection against the insidious afterdamp. When his body was recovered his handkerchief was found to be so placed and the same thing was observable in the case of Joseph Brigham, Turners companion. At first there was some difficulty in identifying Turner?s body. Two of Thomas Lawson sons said it was their father, and undoubtedly the two unfortunate men were alike in contour. One of Lawson?s sons took the watch found on the body (which was then lying in the mortuary) to his mother for her inspection, but she declared it was not her husband's. Before Lawson's son returned, Turner's eldest son came to the mortuary and said he thought the body was that of his father. Asked by the policeman in charge how he could identify the body, the boy replied that his father always wore a piece of rabbit skin under one knee of his trousers and that his watch had a piece of the white facing broken off. At this juncture young Lawson returned with the watch which was precisely as young Turner said his fathers was. The policeman cut open the knees of the dead man's trousers and there was the rabbit skin as indicated. Thus an error was prevented.

Buried:
Find-a-Grave Memorial ID 134357951 inscription reads In loving memory of Michael Turner who lost his life at Brancepeth Colliery by explosion 15th Apr 1896 aged 50

Michael married Ann MORRISON in 1876. Ann was born in 1857 in Chester le Street Co Durham. [Group Sheet]

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1881 RG11 4959 78 at 42 Albert Street Willington wife married aged 24 born Chester le Street. Named as Annie Turner
1891 RG12 4102 69 at 42 Albert Street Willington wife married aged 34 born Willington. Named as Annie Turner

Birth:
1881 Census

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Married:
FreeBMD Jun 1876 Durham 10a 529

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1851 HO107 2391 358 at 109 Durham Road Sherburn Hill head married coal miner aged 33 born Reeth
1861 RG9 3745 95 at New Row Willington head married coal miner aged 42 born Reeth
1871 RG10 4964 44 at Frankland Colliery Houses head married coal miner aged 53 born Reeth
1881 RG11 4959 74 at 11 Albert Street Willington head married coal miner aged 63 born Reeth

Birth:
1851 Census

William married Elizabeth PARKER on 24 Jun 1843 in Shadforth Co Durham. Elizabeth (daughter of Michael PARKER and Margaret ORD) was born on 30 Oct 1823 in Tanfield Co Durham. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 30 Nov 1823, Tanfield Co Durham

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1851 HO107 2391 358 at 109 Durham Road Sherburn Hill wife married aged 27 born Tanfield
1861 RG9 3745 96 at New Row Willington wife married aged 37 born Tanfield
1871 RG10 4964 44 at Frankland Colliery Houses wife married aged 48 born Tanfield
1881 RG11 4959 74 at 11 Albert Street Willington wife married aged 58 born Lanchester
1891 RG12 4093 38 at 205 High Street Cornsay Colliery mother in law widow aged 67 born West Stanley

Birth:
1851 Census
DOB from Ancestry Shared document - filed as Michael Parker & Margaret Ord details

Baptism:
Ancestry Select Births and Christenings

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Married:
Ancestry Select Marriages