Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	1st April 1869
Colliery:	High Brooks, Park Lane
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by blown out shot
Lives Lost:	37

	Ashcroft, John, aged 12, Pony driver
	Barton, James, aged 25
	Baxendale, Richard, aged 17, Drawer
	Broderick, John, aged 25, Collier
	Burns, Jeremiah, aged 13, Drawer
	Farrimond, Henry, aged 33, Collier
	Gaskell, Joseph, aged 22, Collier
	Gee, John, aged 36, Collier
	Gerard, Peter, aged 12, Drawer
	Gorton, Richard, aged 48, Fireman
	Goulding, William, aged 18, Drawer
	Hurst, James, aged 16, Drawer
	Jones, Henry, aged 15
	Jones, Hezekiah, aged 13, Drawer
	Jones, James, aged 30
	Jones, Joseph, aged 17, Drawer
	Jones, Samuel, aged 33, Collier
	Latham, Alexander, aged 36, Collier
	Leyland, William, aged 33, Collier
	Lowe, Peter, aged 20, Dataller
	Marsh, Richard, aged 23
	McCulloch, John, aged 32
	McCulloch, Samuel, aged 28, Collier
	Melling, Thomas, aged 46
	Norton, Anthony, aged 25, Collier
	Parkinson, William, aged 12, Door tenter
	Swift, James, aged 13, Drawer
	Unsworth, Henry, aged 16, Drawer
	Walls, James, aged 25, Collier
	Watkinson, Adam, aged 13, Jigger
	Wilcock, Eliahakim, aged 15, Jigger
	Wilkinson, John, aged 12, Pony driver
	Wilkinson, Moses, aged 20, Collier
	Worsick, John, aged 13, Drawer
	Worsick, William, aged 32, Collier
	Worsick, William, jnr., aged 11, Drawer
	36 of 37 names found
	Youngest: 11 years old ; Oldest: 48 ; Average: 22

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