Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	22nd October 1877
Colliery:	Blantyre, No. 2 Pit
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp
Lives Lost:	207

	Allan, James, aged 22
	Anderson, Peter, aged 15
	Baxter, Thomas, aged 21
	Black, William, aged 38
	Bolton, James, aged 17
	Bolton, Thomas, aged 16
	Bolton, Thomas, aged 15
	Bolton, William, aged 13
	Boyle, Simon, aged 15
	Boyle, William, aged 49
	Brannaghan, Owen, aged 19
	Brannan, Michael, aged 26
	Brodie, James, aged 25
	Brown, James, aged 14
	Brown, James, aged 43
	Brown, John, aged 18
	Burns, John, aged 33
	Burns, Patrick, aged 34
	Burns, Peter, aged 13
	Burns, Thomas, aged 24
	Burt, Andrew, aged 24
	Cairns, Michael, aged 29
	Campbell, John, aged 33
	Campbell, William, aged 14
	Campbell, William, aged 35
	Carlin, Peter, aged 34
	Carmichael, Peter, aged 17
	Cavanagh, James, aged 16
	Cavanagh, John, aged 19
	Cavanagh, John, aged 23
	Clark, James, aged 19
	Cleghorn, Turnbull, aged 20
	Clyde, James, aged 12
	Clyde, James, aged 38
	Clyde, William, aged 14
	Conaghan, John, aged 20
	Conlan, John, aged 14
	Cosgrove, Francis, aged 15
	Cosgrove, James, aged 14
	Cox, Andrew, aged 16
	Cox, John, aged 46
	Coyle, Charles, aged 21
	Crawford, John, aged 24
	Crow, John, aged 23
	Divers, Charles, aged 27
	Dobbie, John, aged 25
	Dobbie, Thomas, aged 27
	Dolan, John, aged 19
	Dolan, Patrick, aged 22
	Dunstan, William Irons, aged 24
	Eadie, Robert, aged 50
	Fricleton, William, aged 23
	Gainor, Charles, aged 23
	Gardiner, Samuel, aged 21
	Gemmell, John, aged 22
	Gemmell, Mathew, aged 31
	Gemmell, William, aged 19
	Gilmour, Joseph, aged 13
	Gilmour, Joseph, aged 35
	Gold, Andrew, aged 22
	Gold, Benjamin, aged 24
	Gold, James, aged 33
	Gold, John, aged 28
	Gracie, Thomas, aged 57
	Graham, William, aged 13
	Halliday, Mathew, aged 48
	Halliday, Robert, aged 39
	Halliday, Thomas, aged 19
	Halliday, Thomas, aged 22
	Hamilton, John, aged 31
	Hanlon, William, aged 23
	Hastie, John, aged 11
	Hendry, James, aged 19
	Hendry, John, aged 14
	Hendry, Robert, aged 15
	Hendry, Thomas, aged 21
	Irvine, James, aged 36
	Kelly, James, aged 33
	Kelly, James, aged 16
	Kelly, John, aged 23
	Kelly, Patrick, aged 27
	Kemp, James, aged 22
	Kenny, John, aged 45
	Kirkland, Robert Orr, aged 20
	Kyle, Nicol, aged 35
	Lang, Archibald, aged 25
	Lang, James, aged 55
	Larkin, Hugh, aged 24
	Lauder, George, aged 16
	Lauder, James, aged 20
	Liddel, James, aged 41
	Liddel, John, aged 12
	Lucas, Thomas, aged 24
	Mackie, Peter, aged 31
	Marshall, James, aged 20
	Martin, David, aged 28
	Martin, Hugh, aged 51
	McAdams, Robert, aged 28
	McAnulty, Peter, aged 54
	McCallum, Edward, aged 14
	McCue, Patrick, aged 19
	McCulloch, John, aged 44
	McCulloch, John, aged 16
	McCulloch, Thomas, aged 25
	McCusker, Henry, aged 30
	McCusker, James, aged 28
	McDonald, Thomas, aged 29
	McFadyen, James, aged 21
	McFadyen, John, aged 23
	McFarlane, John, aged 31
	McGarry, James, aged 35
	McGhee, Abraham, aged 18
	McGhee, John, aged 16
	McGhee, William, aged 14
	McGown, James, aged 24
	McIntyre, Gilbert, aged 47
	McKay, William, aged 48
	McKelvie, John, aged 19
	McKillop, Archibald, aged 12
	McKillop, John, aged 14
	McKinnon, James, aged 32
	McLachlan, Edward, aged 15
	McLachlan, Moses, aged 23
	McLachlan, William, aged 13
	McLaughlan, Edward, aged 18
	McLaughlan, John, aged 23
	McMeechan, Thomas, aged 45
	McMillan, James, aged 30
	McNaught, Robert, aged 26
	McTavie, Bernard, aged 56
	Meechan, Thomas, aged 39
	Miller, Alexander, aged 18
	Miller, Joseph, aged 27
	Miller, William, aged 23
	Moir, Edward, aged 16
	Moir, John, aged 36
	Morgan, Hugh, aged 37
	Morrison, Andrew, aged 48
	Muir, William, aged 21
	Murdoch, Thomas, aged 17
	Murphy, Francis, aged 25
	Murphy, George, aged 13
	Murphy, James, aged 20
	Murray, Bernard, aged 21
	Murray, James, aged 50
	Nisbett, George, aged 27
	O'Brian, John, aged 24
	O'Brian, Peter, aged 21
	O'Donnell, John, aged 23
	O'Donnell, John, aged 26
	Ovens, Robert, aged 21
	Park, John, aged 34
	Primrose, William, aged 17
	Rae, James, aged 35
	Ramsay, Thomas, aged 25
	Reevie, Alexander, aged 19
	Reevie, John, aged 59
	Reid, James, aged 13
	Reid, William, aged 27
	Renwick, George, aged 48
	Richardson, William, aged 17
	Roberts, Moses, aged 17
	Roberts, Samuel, aged 14
	Roberts, Thomas, aged 20
	Roberts, William, aged 24
	Ross, Richard, aged 30
	Russell, John, aged 20
	Sawers, George, aged 24
	Semple, George, aged 32
	Sharp, James, aged 40
	Sharp, William, aged 63
	Simpson, James, aged 24
	Simpson, Robert, aged 60
	Smith, Edward, aged 22
	Smith, James, aged 35
	Smith, Patrick, aged 40
	Sneddon, James, aged 16
	Sneddon, James, aged 39
	Sneddon, John, aged 19
	Spiers, George, aged 16
	Spiers, John, aged 13
	Spiers, John, aged 15
	Spiers, William, aged 28
	Stark, John, aged 29
	Steele, James, aged 36
	Steele, Robert, aged 13
	Stevenson, Alexander, aged 42
	Stevenson, John, aged 19
	Stevenson, William, aged 14
	Stewart, James, aged 19
	Stewart, Malcolm, aged 15
	Stewart, Robert, aged 17
	Thomson, John, aged 17
	Todd, George, aged 43
	Tonner, Charles, aged 15
	Tonner, Hugh, aged 48
	Traynor, John, aged 15
	Vallely, James, aged 22
	Ward, Neil, aged 57
	Wardroper, Robert, aged 37
	Watt, Alexander, aged 28
	Welsh, Francis, aged 23
	Welsh, James, aged 15
	Welsh, John Young, aged 22
	White, Andrew, aged 37
	White, Robert, aged 16
	White, Thomas, aged 13
	Wilson, Hugh, aged 36
	Wilson, James, aged 17
	Wilson, James, aged 14
	Wilson, Thomas, aged 45
	Wilson, Thomas, aged 21
	Wilson, William, aged 17
	Wood, William, aged 51
	Wright, James, aged 49
	Wright, McEwan John, aged 17
	All names found
	Youngest: 11 years old ; Oldest: 63 ; Average: 26

• Great Pit Disasters, 1700 to present day by Helen and Baron Duckham, Published by David & Charles, 1973

 

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