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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  7th November 1883
Colliery:  Altham, Moorfield Pit
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by Davy lamp
Lives Lost:  68

 Almond, Cuthbert, aged 12
 Almond, John, aged 20
 Alston, Thomas, aged 15
 Ashworth, James, aged 39
 Atherton, James, aged 10
 Bentley, John, aged 32
 Blackburn, Thomas, aged 38
 Broadley, James, aged 40
 Broadley, Westwell, aged 28
 Brown, Waddington Walter, aged 23
 Clegg, George, aged 18
 Clegg, Henry William, aged 19
 Clough, James, aged 27
 Clough, Stephen, aged 19
 Coles, Walter Henry, aged 32
 Crabb, John, aged 40
 Cronshaw, Jackson, aged 21
 Cronshaw, James, aged 27
 Cronshaw, Thomas, aged 25
 Crossley, Henry, aged 11
 Edge, John, aged 16
 Edge, Thomas, aged 14
 Gimm, William, aged 26
 Gordon, ??, aged 30
 Grimshaw, John, aged 20
 Grimshaw, Thomas, aged 26
 Hall, John Thomas, aged 15
 Hamriding, Thomas, aged 36
 Haworth, Job Whittaker, aged 11
 Haworth, Robert, aged 36
 Haworth, Rothwell, aged 34
 Haworth, William Henry, aged 32
 Hollin, William, aged 25
 Jones, William Edward, aged 13
 Leeson, Joseph, aged 12
 Mackrell, William, aged 21
 Mahon, John, aged 15
 Mahon, Michael, aged 13
 Mcintosh, Thomas, aged 56
 Mcintosh, Thomas Henry, aged 35
 Metcalf, Thomas, aged 33
 Ormerod, John, aged 41
 Osbalderston, Richard, aged 12
 Osbalderstoon, James, aged 33
 Perry, Matthew Henry, aged 17
 Riding, Aaron, aged 10
 Riley, Robert, aged 17
 Rushton, John, aged 27
 Rushton, Lawrence, aged 44
 Rushton, Willam, aged 14
 Scholes, James, aged 19
 Shorrock, John, aged 19
 Smith, John Edward, aged 11
 Smith, Thomas, aged 45
 Tapper, George, aged 18
 Taylor, James, aged 35
 Taylor, Thomas, aged 29
 Taylor, William, aged 24
 Taylor, Wilson, aged 29
 Thornton, Joseph, aged 24
 Threfall, John, aged 46
 Threlfall, Robert, aged 25
 Tillotson, Thomas, aged 28
 Tomlinson, Peter, aged 19
 Walsh, Thomas, aged 27
 Yates, Timothy, aged 29
 Yates, William, aged 46
 
67 of 68 names found
 
Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 56 ; Average: 25
 
Injured
 Almond, George
 Almond, Lawerence
 Aspden, William Thomas
 Bickerstaff, John
 Broadley, Peter
 Clegg, Thomas
 Clough, William
 Cronshaw, James H.
 Crook, James
 Duckworth, Thomas
 Fielding, James
 Grace, William
 Gumm, Timothy
 Halstead, Samuel
 Leeming, Thomas
 Metcalf, Lawrence
 Parker, Fred
 Rawcliffe, George
 Riding, Moses
 South, Henry
 Taylor, Christopher
 Walsh, John
 Walton, John
 Wolstenholme, John

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