Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  7th June 1878
Colliery:  Haydock, Wood Pit
Cause:  Explosion of firedamp caused by roof fall
Lives Lost:  189

 Arnold, Thomas, aged 25
 Ashcroft, James, aged 16
 Ashcroft, James, aged 53
 Ashcroft, Ralph, aged 21
 Baines, John, aged 20
 Baines, William, aged 35
 Banks, Roger, aged 41
 Bannan, Henry, aged 47
 Barnes, James, aged 30
 Barnes, William, aged 51
 Bibby, James, aged 56
 Blinstone, John, aged 20
 Boon, Isaac, aged 21
 Boon, John, aged 42
 Boon, John, aged 19
 Boon, Joseph, aged 14
 Boon, Nathan, aged 45
 Boon, Thomas, aged 18
 Boon, William, aged 15
 Booth, Enoch, aged 25
 Burrows, Thomas, aged 19
 Byrom, Edward, aged 16
 Carey, William, aged 16
 Cawley, Thomas, aged 30
 Chorley, Richard, aged 36
 Clare, Thomas, aged 37
 Clifford, James, aged 21
 Connah, William, aged 47
 Conway, John, aged 20
 Cotterall, Joseph, aged 27
 Cunliffe, George, aged 24
 Cunnah, William, aged 40
 Cusic, John, aged 18
 Danks, George, aged 24
 Dearden, James, aged 28
 Dearden, William, aged 32
 Dillon, James, aged 16
 Dixon, Thomas, aged 48
 Downs, Thomas, aged 43
 Edwards, John, aged 49
 Edwards, Thomas, aged 18
 Ellis, Robert, aged 33
 Evans, Edward, aged 40
 Evans, Edward, aged 40
 Evans, George, aged 29
 Evans, John, aged 23
 Evans, John, aged 14
 Evans, John, aged 14
 Evans, Richard, aged 20
 Evans, Robert, aged 19
 Fairhurst, James, aged 41
 Fairhurst, Matthew, aged 24
 Fairhurst, William, aged 27
 Fox, James, aged 27
 Gerrard, James, aged 27
 Gittens, Daniel, aged 35
 Gore, Arthur, aged 25
 Green, Charles, aged 21
 Green, George, aged 15
 Green, John, aged 21
 Green, Joseph, aged 23
 Green, Richard, aged 48
 Greenall, James, aged 34
 Griffiths, James, aged 14
 Hales, George, aged 32
 Harrison, Thomas, aged 53
 Heyes, John, aged 38
 Higson, James, aged 19
 Hindley, James, aged 19
 Hindley, John, aged 12
 Hindley, Joseph, aged 13
 Hindley, William, aged 12
 Hughes, Charles, aged 29
 Hughes, John, aged 40
 Hughes, Peter, aged 37
 Hughes, Robert, aged 26
 Hughes, William, aged 20
 Jameson, William, aged 15
 Johnson, Johnathan, aged 41
 Johnson, Joseph, aged 14
 Jones, John, aged 19
 Jones, John, aged 22
 Jones, John, aged 22
 Jones, John, aged 28
 Jones, Woodwin, aged 21
 Jordan, John, aged 25
 Kay, Robert, aged 30
 Kelly, Michael, aged 27
 King, John, aged 31
 King, Michael, aged 37
 Knowles, John, aged 23
 Leyland, James, aged 40
 Leyland, William, aged 46
 Lloyd, James, aged 27
 Lloyd, Llewllyn, aged 29
 Lynch, Brian, aged 22
 Lyon, James, aged 44
 Manley, Edward, aged 21
 McCarty, Thomas, aged 20
 McGlynn, William, aged 16
 McGovern, James, aged 42
 Melling, Thomas, aged 22
 Meredith, Evan, aged 36
 Millington, George, aged 37
 Millington, Peter, aged 32
 Molyneaux, Francis, aged 51
 Molyneaux, James, aged 20
 Morton, George, aged 58
 Murphy, John, aged 17
 Nolan, Bernard, aged 27
 Nolan, Peter, aged 19
 Norbury, James, aged 44
 Owen, James, aged 14
 Owen, William, aged 12
 Peake, James, aged 14
 Pierpoint, James, aged 17
 Pilkington, Thomas, aged 26
 Pilling, Benjamin, aged 27
 Pilling, John, aged 24
 Pimblett, Edward, aged 43
 Pimblett, John, aged 21
 Pimblett, John, aged 13
 Pimblett, Thomas, aged 36
 Powell, George, aged 35
 Redford, John, aged 15
 Redman, Charles, aged 26
 Reed, Thomas, aged 36
 Richardson, Edward, aged 39
 Roach, Martin, aged 22
 Roach, Michael, aged 25
 Roach, Peter, aged 22
 Roberts, Ellis, aged 21
 Roberts, James, aged 15
 Roberts, John, aged 20
 Roberts, William, aged 35
 Robinson, James, aged 36
 Rodgers, Edward, aged 37
 Rodgers, Robert, aged 45
 Rowland, Robert, aged 20
 Rowley, Henry, aged 13
 Rowley, Jonathan, aged 35
 Rowley, Thomas, aged 15
 Sharples, Peter, aged 35
 Sharples, Thomas, aged 73
 Sharples, Thomas, aged 41
 Shaw, James, aged 17
 Shaw, Thomas, aged 22
 Skidmore, Thomas, aged 24
 Smith, William, aged 33
 Smith, William, aged 36
 Smith, William, aged 19
 Stillwell, Thomas, aged 19
 Sutton, Edward, aged 46
 Swain, Job, aged 18
 Swift, George, aged 31
 Swift, John, aged 29
 Thomas, James, aged 32
 Thompson, Thomas, aged 28
 Turncock, William, aged 28
 Turton, John, aged 30
 Twiss, Edward, aged 18
 Twiss, James, aged 27
 Twiss, Joseph, aged 22
 Tyrer, Peter, aged 51
 Unsworth, William, aged 23
 Wade, Hugh, aged 21
 Walpole, William, aged 48
 Waterworth, Edward, aged 50
 Waterworth, Henry, aged 23
 Waterworth, Henry, aged 23
 Waterworth, Thomas, aged 12
 Welding, John, aged 36
 Welding, John, aged 15
 Welding, William, aged 21
 Whalin, Michael, aged 21
 Whittle, James, aged 62
 Whittle, James, aged 62
 Whittle, Thomas, aged 20
 Whittley, George, aged 20
 Wilcock, William, aged 61
 Wild, James, aged 23
 Williams, John, aged 28
 Wilson, Daniel, aged 19
 Winstanley, James, aged 57
 Winstanley, James, aged 18
 Winstanley, Samuel, aged 51
 Winstanley, Thomas, aged 13
 Winstanley, William, aged 12
 Wood, Thomas, aged 25
 
All names found
 
Youngest: 12 years old ; Oldest: 73 ; Average: 29

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