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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  1st December 1860
Colliery:  Risca
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp, cause of ignition unknown
Lives Lost:  142

 Bailey, David, aged 27, after damp
 Banfield, John, aged 40, after damp
 Banfield, Joseph
 Banfield, William
 Bateman, Isaac
 Bateman, Levi
 Bath, Thomas, aged 15, after damp
 Bath, William, aged 31, after damp
 Beddoe, Evan, aged 43
 Beddoe, Stephen, aged 17, after damp
 Bevan, William
 Binding, Elijah, aged 36, after damp
 Binding, Enock, aged 34, after damp
 Binding, Joshua, aged 36, burnt
 Bowen, Joseph
 Brace, Mark
 Brimble, James, aged 35, after damp
 Brimble, Thomas, aged 12, after damp
 Brimble, William, aged 13, burnt
 Britain, Benjamin, aged 22, after damp
 Bryant, Moses, aged 49, after damp
 Bullock, Thomas
 Chivers, Samuel
 Court, Henry, aged 13, after damp
 Cousener, James, aged 28, after damp
 Cox, Charles
 Crew, Emanuel, aged 34, after damp
 Crew, John, aged 34, burnt
 Davies, Alfred, aged 24, after damp
 Davies, Hopkin
 Davies, William, aged 22, burnt
 Davies, William, aged 35, burnt
 Davies, William
 Edwards, David
 Edwards, Henry, aged 39, after damp
 Edwards, Jonathan, aged 29, after damp
 English, Edward, aged 41, after damp
 Evans, Charles
 Evans, Isaac
 Evans, Joseph
 Evans, Thomas, aged 20, after damp
 Fisher, George, aged 18, after damp
 Fisher, James
 Fisher, John
 Golding, George, aged 23, after damp
 Golding, Henry
 Gough, George, aged 18, after damp
 Griffiths, John, aged 23, after damp
 Grindle, James
 Grindle, Joseph
 Gullick, Frederick
 Hale, Charles, aged 34, after damp
 Hale, William
 Hammond, James, aged 25, burnt
 Harris, John, aged 32, burnt
 Harris, John, aged 41, after damp
 Harris, William, aged 43, after damp
 Holder, Edwin
 Hughes, Morgan, aged 39
 Hughes, William, aged 40, burnt
 Jacquey, Joseph
 James, Henry, aged 45
 Jenkins, David, aged 28, after damp
 Jenkins, Phillip, aged 22, after damp
 Jenkins, Richard
 Jenkins, Thomas, aged 24, after damp
 Jenkins, William, aged 24, after damp
 John, William, aged 23, after damp
 Jones, John, aged 16, after damp
 Jones, John, aged 29, after damp
 Jones, John
 Jones, Thomas, aged 21
 Jones, Thomas
 Jones, William
 Jones, William, aged 42, after damp
 Kealing, William, aged 29
 King, Nathaniel
 Ledbury, Charles, aged 24
 Lewis, George, aged 19, after damp
 Lewis, James, aged 41, after damp
 Lewis, William, aged 28, burnt
 Lippiett, John
 Morgan, John, aged 35, after damp
 Murray, John, aged 23, after damp
 Nelmes, Thomas, aged 22, burnt
 Newport, George, aged 27, burnt
 Nicholas, James, aged 27, after damp
 Norris, Frederick, aged 11, after damp
 Parry, Aaron, aged 15, after damp
 Pearce, George, aged 13, burnt
 Perry, William, aged 13
 Phillips, James, aged 20
 Phillips, John, aged 35, after damp
 Phillips, John
 Phillips, John, aged 26, after damp
 Pike, George, aged 52, after damp
 Plumber, James
 Pritchard, James, aged 15, after damp
 Pritchard, Jenkin, aged 27, after damp
 Prosser, Thomas, aged 22, after damp
 Purnell, Henry
 Rees, Abraham, aged 31
 Rees, Daniel, aged 17, after damp
 Rees, Rees Morgan, aged 27
 Robbins, George, aged 38, after damp
 Roberts, Gethin
 Rosser, Thomas
 Sage, George
 Sage, Isaac, aged 32
 Sage, John
 Saunders, Isaac, aged 42, after damp
 Saunders, Llewellyn, came out alive, but died
 Skidmore, George, aged 35, after damp
 Thomas, Henry, aged 11
 Thomas, Llewellyn, aged 15, burnt
 Turner, James
 Vizard, Thomas
 Watkins, Nathaniel
 Watson, Abraham, aged 32, after damp
 Watson, George, aged 10, after damp
 Watson, Isaac, aged 12, after damp
 Watson, Isaac
 Watts, John, aged 15
 Webb, George, aged 40
 West, George, aged 11
 West, John, aged 24
 West, Joseph, aged 13
 White, Charles, aged 17, after damp
 White, Frederick
 Wilkins, Daniel, aged 41, burnt
 Williams, Edmund
 Williams, John, aged 17, after damp
 Williams, John, aged 26, burnt
 Williams, John, aged 31, after damp
 Williams, Thomas
 Williams, William, aged 17, after damp
 Williams, William, aged 55, after damp
 Williams, William
 Wilson, William, aged 18, burns
 Wilton, John, aged 29, after damp
 Wilton, William, aged 12, after damp
 Woolley, John, aged 17, burnt
 
All names found
 
Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 55 ; Average: 27

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