Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	14th April 1874
Colliery:	Astley Deep, Duckinfield
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp, ignited by fire in old workings, caused by fall of ground and inadequate ventilation
Lives Lost:	54

	Bayley, John
	Beard, Henry, aged 36
	Bickerdyke, Alfred
	Bickerdyke, Joseph, aged 25
	Bradshaw, James, aged 40
	Brice, Alfred
	Brown, Thomas, aged 45
	Carr, John, aged 46
	Carter, James
	Cartwright, Aaron
	Chadwick, William
	Connley, Michael, aged 28
	Davis, Edwin
	Davis, Samuel J., aged 20
	Downpatrick, John, aged 22
	Dugdale, Robert
	Dugdale, Robert, aged 15
	Fletcher, Richard, aged 26
	Garside, John, aged 19
	Garside, Josiah
	Hadfield, Thomas
	Hallam, James, aged 37
	Harrison, Nelson, aged 51
	Harrison, Nelson
	Hartshorn, William, aged 20
	Hibbert, Walter, aged 21
	Higginbottom, Matthew
	Hitchen, John
	Hitchen, John, aged 16
	Hudson, J. D.
	Hyde, Ham
	Jackson, John
	Jones, Charles
	Kean, -, aged 45
	Kean, Thomas John, aged 20
	Knott, William Henry, aged 15
	Lawton, William A., aged 15
	Leyland, John, aged 52
	Lindley, George, aged 10
	Lindley, George, aged 17
	Merrick, James, aged 35
	Morgan, John
	Oliver, Edwin, aged 12
	O'Neil, Timothy
	Reynolds, James, aged 24
	Roberts, John, aged 44
	Statham, John, aged 36
	Stockledge, John, aged 24
	Swindells, John, aged 45
	Taylor, Law, aged 30
	Thomas, Robert, aged 25
	Walker, Robert, aged 46
	Wardel, Samuel, aged 30
	Watkinson, Henry
	Welsby, James, aged 28
	Williams, Benjamin, aged 29
	Wright, George, aged 40
	All names found
	Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 52 ; Average: 29
	Injured
	Bowker, Albert, aged 16
	Butterworth, James
	Clayton, Squire
	Dean, George, aged 16
	Hitchen, Thomas
	Hulme, Allen
	Hulme, Charles
	Hulme, Charles
	Kellett, William
	Lee, Matthew
	Normanton, Joseph, aged 15
	Walker, John
	Wood, John Thomas

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