Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	12th March 1878
Colliery:	Unity Brook
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by safety lamp
Lives Lost:	43

	Barnes, Absalom, aged 14
	Barnes, William, aged 38
	Beattie, James, aged 19
	Booth, George, aged 21
	Byrom, James, aged 32
	Byrom, Thomas, aged 28
	Chadwick, James, aged 38
	Clarke, Robert, aged 18
	Enion, David, aged 13
	Enion, Johnathan, aged 12
	Enion, Robert, aged 39
	Featherstone, Richard, aged 18
	Fogg, Peter, aged 26
	Greenhalgh, John, aged 26
	Hamblet, John, aged 31
	Harrison, John, aged 40
	Haynes, John, aged 21
	Hilton, Thomas, aged 20
	Hobson, James
	Hobson, Joseph, aged 26
	Isherwood, Alfred, aged 32
	Jackson, George, aged 28
	Leach, William, aged 24
	Lever, Thomas, aged 18
	Lindley, Ellis Lord, aged 15
	Lindley, George, aged 47
	Lomax, Amos, aged 17
	Lomax, John Tickle, aged 31
	Lomax, Thomas, aged 28
	Lomax, Wright, aged 26
	Mace, Thomas, aged 19
	Maych, William, aged 33
	Moore, Christopher, aged 26
	Morris, William, aged 15
	Partington, James, aged 44
	Peake, Thomas, aged 17
	Tong, Charles, aged 16
	Walker, Andrew, aged 22
	Wallwork, Richard, aged 25
	Welsby, Joseph, aged 18
	Wolstenholme, Samuel, aged 47
	Wolstenholme, Thomas, aged 41
	Wolstenholme, William, aged 21
	All names found
	Youngest: 12 years old ; Oldest: 47 ; Average: 26

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