Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	5th March 1847
Colliery:	Ardsley Main
Cause:	Explosion
Lives Lost:	73

	Addy, William, aged 26
	Beardshall, Richard, aged 18
	Beardshall, Thomas, aged 13
	Bedford, George, aged 17
	Billington, George, aged 22
	Birtles, Francis, aged 12
	Brown, James, aged 50
	Brown, Thomas, aged 18
	Buckley, John, aged 24
	Carlton, William, aged 10
	Chadwick, James, aged 15
	Chadwick, Richard, aged 17
	Clayton, George, aged 23
	Cooke, John, aged 20
	Cooke, Richard, aged 25
	Day, John, aged 15
	Day, Peter, aged 45
	Denton, Matthew, aged 15
	Dyson, George, aged 37
	Fearnley, Joseph, aged 20
	Foundhere, Thomas, aged 15
	Galloway, James, aged 26
	Galloway, John, aged 22
	Gelder, John, aged 11
	Gilberthorpe, George, aged 24
	Gilberthorpe, Joseph, aged 18
	Haigh, Charles, aged 23
	Harper, John, aged 16
	Hartley, George, aged 43
	Hessle, Robert, aged 31
	Hinchcliffe, George, aged 28
	Hitchen, John, aged 14
	Hobson, Aaron, aged 26
	Hodgson, Richard, aged 32
	Holland, Abraham, aged 32
	Hough, John, aged 30
	Jessop, John, aged 17
	Kirk, William, aged 21
	Lindley, Isaac, aged 30
	Lindley, Matthew, aged 23
	Lindley, Samuel, aged 28
	Littlewood, John, aged 23
	Matthewman, George, aged 28
	Matthews, Abraham, aged 45
	Matthews, Vincent, aged 15
	McLear, Robert, aged 19
	Mellor, Daniel, aged 19
	Parker, George, aged 13
	Peach, John, aged 17
	Riley, John, aged 23
	Sedgewick, George, aged 13
	Stansfield, Edward, aged 22
	Steel, Charles, aged 27
	Steel, George, aged 31
	Steel, Joseph, aged 24
	Turton, James, aged 13
	Turton, Joseph, aged 36
	Wainwright, John, aged 11
	Walton, William, aged 30
	Whiteley, George, aged 16
	Whiteley, James, aged 42
	Whiteley, William, aged 16
	Winter, Ezra, aged 27
	Woodcock, John, aged 15
	Woodhead, David, aged 11
	Woodhead, Joseph, aged 13
	Wroe, John, aged 15
	Wroe, Luke, aged 11
	Wroe, William, aged 41
	Wroe, William, aged 21
	70 of 73 names found
	Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 50 ; Average: 23

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