10 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Cheap emigration to Australia and America
Fair from Durham to Pennsylvania £ 6. 6s.6d
Fair from Durham to Ohio £ 7.12s.0d
Fair from Durham to Illinois £ 8.11s.6d
Fair from Durham to Texas £11. 8s.6d
Assisted passage to Canada £ 4.15s.0d
Stem Ship Lorents to Australia £15. 5s.0d
Apply to Wm Gray, 5 North Road, Durham for the Albon and Orient Mail Steamers
14 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Bof Saterday taking splent up
15 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Munday night taking the top down
16 May 1879 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Tuesday at the hich barrow
17 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Wensday Haswell flat nue gannon bord
18 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Thursday sarving the mass
19 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Friday lowrn the old landow
21 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Saterday hewed corve lowern bottom
Totle of the week 16
23 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Munday right hand flat taking up bottom
24 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Stright on taking up the bottom at the kick
24 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Barrow straight on tat the canch
25 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Wensday Thomas Bradley
26 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Thursday making a siding
20 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date Wheatley Hill Colliery went to Pittington Hill and it is about 6 miles from Wheatley Hill
25 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date Ellion is complenen of pain in neck and shoulders and I wish her was better of pain. Ther is all ways something in this world, if you have not one thing you have another so thus it goes on.
25 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date my son Nicklson and myself had a little walk down towards the Cabers and it was the forst time that I had my sute of cloths on that Richison made at Wingate Grange.
26 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Monday morning on this date the sad nues came to our place from our William relating the death of Robert Davison his mate who was killed by his side on the 8th May at America
29 May 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date my brother William returned from America. I was in back shift that day. If Robert Davison had been spared to come back all would be well but the Lord thought fit to call him hench and may the Lord rest his soul
27 June 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date I got a nue sute from Richardson and it is a blue one and it cost 3 pounds
(Thomas seems to have got his dates mixed up in his diary around May and June)
21 July 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date the pit is idle on the count of the water breaking it away in the number 2 pit
11 August 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
This been the date that George Butright and his family left Wingate Colliery for America
22 August 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date Mr Farrow set off for America. Thomas Armstrong tuk his things to Durham and Mrs Wood meets him at Durham
6 September 1879 Ludworth Colliery
On this date Andrew Pattinson died leving a wife and three children the oldest about five years of age. Hir father is staying with her
26 September 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
On this date I got the sad nues about Thomas Farrow shutting (shooting) himself but no-one noes where it sprung from. I hope it is not true
29 September 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Was the day that Thomas Greenwells sister Margaret died in Forde Street
14 October 1879 Wheatley Hill Colliery
Was the date that Mrs Burts daughter landed at Thornley branch ends. She came from America in the hopes of seeing her mother but hir mother died on the 6th of the same month and I felt for the poor woman. She has a fine boy of about 9 years old and one 16 months and worst of all she is a widow