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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  24th March 1853
Colliery:  Ince Hall, Arley Pit
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light
Lives Lost:  58

 Baxendale, Thomas, aged 38, Labourer
 Blacklidge, Joseph, Drawer
 Byrnes, Matthew, aged 21, Drawer
 Byrom, William, aged 26, Collier
 Cavanah, John, aged 22, Drawer
 Connelly, Michael, aged 21, Jigger
 Cunliffe, Michael, aged 22, Jigger
 Davis, John, Drawer
 Ellison, Thomas, aged 20, Collier
 Gaskell, Joseph, aged 20, Collier
 Gent, Samuel, aged 20, Drawer
 Gent, William, aged 19, Drawer
 Glaive, Thomas, aged 22, Collier
 Green, James, aged 11, Drawer
 Griffiths, William, aged 32, Collier
 Hanley, Edward, aged 12, Drawer
 Hardman, James, aged 13, Door Tenter
 Hargreaves, George, aged 24, Drawer
 Hunt, Edward, aged 15, Drawer
 Hunt, Joseph, aged 37, Fireman
 Huyton, John, aged 52, Labourer
 Isherwood, Henry, aged 27
 Jelly, Eli, aged 34, Collier
 Jones, David
 Jones, James, aged 18, Drawer
 Jones, Robert, aged 26, Collier
 Jones, Thomas
 Lewis, Robert, aged 22
 Mallin, John, aged 20, Drawer
 Marsden, Edward, aged 18, Drawer
 Marsden, John, aged 33, Hooker-On
 McAllister, James, aged 14, Drawer
 McAllister, John, aged 20, Drawer
 McAllister, Joseph, aged 16, Drawer
 McIntosh, Joseph, aged 29, Collier
 McKnight, William, aged 25, Jigger
 McNaught, Peter, aged 13, Drawer
 McNaught, Robert, aged 18, Drawer
 Morgan, Cutus, aged 18, Collier
 O'Neill, Arthur, aged 21, Collier
 O'Neill, Charles, aged 28, Collier
 O'Neill, John, aged 18, Drawer
 Owen, Thomas, aged 30, Collier
 Rigby, Matthew, aged 23, Drawer
 Stanley, John, aged 24, Hooker-On
 Tabener, Joseph, aged 18, Jigger
 Tabener, William, aged 28, Labourer
 Valentine, Ralph, aged 25, Labourer
 Wright, Thomas, aged 35, Collier
 
49 of 58 names found
 
Youngest: 11 years old ; Oldest: 52 ; Average: 23

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