Lookup Request - Any mining disasters that occurred 3 Mar 1825

[cerilogan81]

Im currently researching a family where both father and son died on the same day and the father was the foreman of a pit in the durham area.

Could it be a mining disaster that killed them both?

I tried searching the durham mining museum website but it keeps telling me it's not secure.

Can anyone access it without this warning?

Any help would be great, thanks

[AlanBoyd]

At DMM the only disaster listed for 1825 in Northern England is 3rd July, Fatfield Juliet Pit.

I’m not advsing you to ignore security warnings, but at a site that you know about from previous visits they usually arise simply because a certificate is out-of-date. I’ve seen quite prestigious sites suffer from this in the past. Judging by the slow speed of loading at DMM, they are operating on a shoestring.

Can you say where they lived so that there is a keyword for newspaper searches?

[MollyC]

There was one on 3 July 1825

Fatfield Colliery Judith Pit Explosion - Chester-le-Street - 1825 - Northern Mine Research Society (nmrs.org.uk)

You can check all mining disasters on this site:

Accidents & Disasters - Northern Mine Research Society (nmrs.org.uk)

[ChrissieL]

There is also a list of Durham Mining Disasters on Wikitree. (I googled Durham mining disasters). They are listed in place order. You can click on the place name and a list of the names of the casualties comes up.

Chris

[AlanBoyd]

It could be cholera of course.

[Tickettyboo]

I tried searching the durham mining museum website but it keeps telling me it's not secure.

Can anyone access it without this warning?

There are still many sites that continue to use the http:// prefix rather than the more modern and more secure https://   prefix.  I can't think of any browser that will not tell you in some way that the connection  isn't as secure as it could/should be.

This page explains the 'not secure' message.
https://www.digicert.com/blog/not-secure-warning-what-to-do

The scenario that AlanBoyd mentioned is when a site 'does' use the https:// prefix in the url but the site owners haven't updated the security certificate that is checked each time someone tries to access the site and you only get the message when the cert has expired.

I'll send an email to the museum to make them aware that people are getting very wary about accessing the site.
 
Boo

[AlanBoyd]

I stand corrected.

[Tickettyboo]

I stand corrected.

Hope you don't think I was criticising you Alan, I was just trying to explain so the OP understands and can decide whether or not to go ahead and access the site.

Boo

[cerilogan81]

Thank you for all your help so far, the Northumberland and Durham MIs have the headstone on record and it advises their DOD is the above date, could this have been mis-transcribed and could it actually be Jul 1825 and they were 2 unrecorded deaths in the pit disaster?