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Victims of the
1854 Fire and Explosion in Gateshead

Gateshead Dispensary Patients

Transcribed by Emily M.C. Middleton

Name Age Abode Injuries
Alexander Ainslie 9 Church Walk Burns
Mary Ainslie 59 Hillgate Wounds and bruises
Hannah Bainbridge 9 Church Walk Face wounds
John Bell 38 Church Walk Face wounded
James Bennet   Church Walk Bruises
William Bishop 16 Hillgate Eyeball destroyed by a stone
William Bramwell 50 High Street Burns
James Brown 40 Church Walk Bruises and wounds
Matthew Brown 42 Hillgate Back bruised (removed to the infirmary)
R. Brown 26 Church Street Burns
Manasseh Cain   Church Walk Scalp Wounds
W. Campbell 18 Hillgate Arm severely crushed
Mary Carr 70 Oakwellgate Head injury
Mary Corby 67 Hillgate Scalp wound
Joseph Corby 72 Hillgate Injury to leg
James Croll   Church Walk Contused foot
William Dobson 27 Oakwellgate Fractured ribs
Thomas Docherty 7 Church Walk Severe wounds on thigh
Catherine Donelly 27 Leonard's Court Bruises
Michael Donelly 7 Leonard's Court Bruises
Thomas Eraily 13 South Shore Injury to fingers
William Elliott 19   Scalp wound
Henry Fairburn 23 Hillgate Severe cuts
Sarah Frayin 33 Lambton Street Fracture of the metacarpel bones
Peter Gallagher 38 Oakwellgate Arm crushed by a stone
Thomas Goodman 44 Church Walk Head severely crushed
Jane Gray 70 Oakwellgate Burns
Mary Gray 60 Church Walk Contusions
John Hall 19 Hillgate Bruises
Elizabeth Hawkins 34 Hillgate Scalp wounds etc
Mary Hayhurst 51 Hillgate Scalp wounds etc
James Henderson 30 Church Street Injuries to foot
Thomas Henderson 20 Hymers Court Leg and arm bruised (leapt from his window)
Nichol Henderson 7 Hillgate Burns
Caroline Hutchinson 50 Church Walk Fractured leg
Robert Iley 30 Oakwellgate Injury to side
William Johnson 40 Oakwellgate Face and scalp wounds
Henry Jones 60 Pipewellgate Scalp burns
Mary Kelly 23 High Street Bruises
William Leek 9 High Street Severely crushed by paving stone in his own house
Ann Ludlow   Oakwellgate Arm torn off by the stone (died in the infirmary)
John McClasky 30 Pipewellgate Injury to foot
Martha McGuire 18 Church Street Fractured clavicle
Mary MacKay 47 Bell's Yard Wounds and bruises
J. McMenemy 37 Church Walk Crushed
Andrew Michael 27 Hillgate Burns
Alexander Moffatt 7 High Street Face wound
Elizabeth Morrison 27 Church Walk Knee severely bruised
Edward Morrison 4 Church Walk Wounds
Alexander Nathan 7 Church Walk Bruises
Archibald Nicholson 50 Hillgate Severe cuts
Jane Nicholson 30 Church Walk Face crushed
Michael Nicholson 6 Cannon Street Injury to foot
Peter Nicholson 12 Church Walk Head extensively cut
Peter Nicholson 17 Church Walk Leg burnt and bruised
Thomas Oley 19 High Street Head and shoulder severely crushed
Thomas Paceby 3 Nuns Lane Eye injury
Henry Pearson 40 High Street Sprained ankle
George Shanks 52 High Street Burns
John Shanks 14 High Street Scalp wound
Mary Shanks 50 High Street Crushed
Michael Shanton   Oakwellgate Bruises
Mary Shields 27 Church Street Injury to eye
John Siltry 56 Church Walk Injury to back
Elizabeth Simm 9 High Street Bruises
Mary Skelleen 54 Oakwellgate Injury to arm
Jane Smith 60 Hillgate Wound of temporal artery
Mary Smith 53 Church Street Contusions on face
Alexander Thompson 35 Bottlebank Fracture of fore arm
James Thompson 25 Church Walk Bruised toes
Peter Tomline 34 Hillgate Bruises
Mary Turner 32 Hillgate Burns
J. Valentine 16 Hillgate Bruised toes
Thomas Wake 9 Hymers Court Bruises
Ellen White 10 High Street Cut on knee
George White 38 Hillgate Wounds and bruises
Margaret Wilson 29 Oakwellgate Face wounds
Thomas Winter 47 Gateshead Cut face
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