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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  18th June 1885
Colliery:  Clifton Hall, Trencherbone Mine
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by lighted candle
Lives Lost:  177

 Allen, John, aged 29, Hooker-On
 Ashton, William, aged 52, Coal Miner
 Atkinson, Israel, aged 22, Coal Miner
 Atkinson, John, aged 40, Coal Miner
 Banks, Rueben, aged 19, Jigger
 Barker, Walter, aged 13, Stable Boy
 Barlow, Frederick, aged 23, Coal Miner
 Barlow, Noah, aged 20
 Barlow, Thomas, aged 54, Coal Miner
 Barlow, Thomas, jnr., aged 30, Coal Miner
 Barter, Leonard Charles, aged 13, Wagon-Coupler
 Baxter, William, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Bell, Benjamin, aged 18, Coal Miner
 Berry, George Enoch, aged 20, Wagoner
 Berry, John, aged 16, Jigger
 Berry, William, aged 54, Coal Miner
 Blomerby, James, aged 47, Coal Miner
 Blower, Walter, aged 28, Coal Miner
 Booth, William, aged 17, Wagoner
 Bradley, Thomas, snr., aged 45, Coal Miner
 Bradley, William, aged 20, Pony Driver
 Brooks, Matthew, aged 16, Wagoner
 Buck, Thomas Percival, aged 18, Coal Miner
 Cheadle, Richard, aged 24, Coal Miner
 Clamp, Jospeh, aged 44, Coal Miner
 Colley, John, aged 37, Fireman
 Colley, Joseph, aged 35, Coal Miner
 Collier, John, aged 35, Bricklayer
 Collier, Thomas, aged 19, Taker-Off
 Constantine, John, aged 33, Stoker Of Boiler Furnace
 Crook, James, aged 23, Foreman
 Crook, James, aged 40, Coal Miner
 Crook, John, aged 19, Coal Miner
 Crook, Ralph, aged 42, Coal Miner
 Crossley, Robert, aged 32, Coal Miner
 Daniels, Ralph, aged 65, Labourer
 Darby, William, aged 23, Filler
 Davies, David, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Davies, Edward, aged 36, Coal Miner
 Davies, John, aged 26, Coal Miner
 Davies, John, jnr., aged 15, Wagoner
 Davies, John, snr., aged 56, Coal Miner
 Davies, Joseph, aged 26, Coal Miner
 Dermody, John, aged 20, Waggon Filler
 Derricot, Joseph, aged 39, Coal Miner
 Done, John, aged 34, Coal Miner
 Doxey, David, aged 45, Underlooker
 Dunkerley, John Henry, aged 19, Wagoner
 Dunn, Thomas, aged 26, Coal Miner
 Dyke, John, aged 34, Coal Miner
 Dyson, James, aged 38, Coal Miner
 Dyson, Joseph, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Dyson, Samuel, aged 24, Coal Miner
 Eaves, Sanuel, aged 27, Day Wage Man
 Eckersley, John, aged 33, Coal Miner
 Edge, Ernest, aged 18, Coal Miner
 Edwards, John, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Edwards, Thomas, aged 27, Coal Miner
 Edwards, William Henry, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Evans, John, aged 25, Engine Driver
 Evans, John, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Ewing, Walter, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Feeney, James, aged 21, Coal Miner
 Franklin, William, aged 23, Wagoner
 Gardiner, Luke, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Gaskell, Charles Edward, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Gee, William, aged 18, Wagoner
 Green, Henry, aged 28, Coal Miner
 Greenall, John William, aged 16, Taker-Off
 Greenhalgh, Edwin, aged 19, Filer
 Gretton, John, aged 17, Wagoner
 Griffiths, Isaiah, aged 47, Coal Miner
 Grimshaw, Herbert, aged 15, Wagoner
 Hall, George, aged 42, Day Wage Man
 Hall, Thomas, aged 42, Fireman
 Hall, William, aged 25, Day Wage Man
 Hardman, Daniel, aged 37, Ostler
 Hardman, John, aged 24, Coal Miner
 Hardman, John, aged 25, Hooker-On
 Hardman, Thomas, aged 28, Hooker-On
 Hilton, John, aged 26, Coal Miner
 Hilton, Thomas, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Hilton, William, aged 36, Coal Miner
 Hopwood, James, aged 15
 Hotskiss, Thomas, aged 14, Wagoner
 Howell, John, aged 21, Coal Miner
 Hughes, James, aged 20, Wagoner
 Hughes, John, aged 18, Coal Miner
 Humphreys, Edward, aged 28, Coal Miner
 Jackson, Shemei, aged 33, Coal Miner
 Johnson, Daniel, aged 36, Coal Miner
 Johnson, William, aged 32, Coal Miner
 Jones, Enoch, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Jones, Samuel, aged 24
 Jones, William, aged 38, Coal Miner
 Kay, James, aged 35, Coal Miner
 Kilver, Samuel, aged 14, Furnaceman's Helper
 Kimer, Peter, Oiler Of Wagons
 Leach, Samuel, aged 37, Coal Miner
 Loader, George, aged 22, Coal Miner
 Lycett, William, aged 16
 Maddon, George, aged 21, Wagoner
 Mannion, John, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Matthews, Samuel, aged 21, Coal Miner
 Mattox, Henry, aged 23, Coal Miner
 Mattox, Thomas, aged 22, Coal Miner
 Mawdsley, William, aged 16, Wagoner
 McCarthy, John, aged 17, Wagoner
 McHugh, Patrick, aged 38, Coal Miner
 Mellins, John, aged 16, Wagoner
 Merrick, William Henry, aged 19, Filler
 Morris, Thomas, aged 40, Coal Miner
 Page, William, aged 37, Coal Miner
 Parkinson, William, aged 17, Coal Miner
 Parry, Alfred, aged 31, Day Wage Man
 Pearson, Joseph, aged 50
 Pendlebury, -
 Penny, Henry John, aged 29, Day Wage Man
 Porter, Daniel, aged 35, Coal Miner
 Porter, Kay, aged 40, Coal Miner
 Porter, Samuel, aged 14, Wagoner
 Porter, William, aged 15, Wagoner
 Price, Joseph, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Pugh, James Edward, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Quinan, John, aged 20, Day Wage Man
 Redford, James, aged 21, Coal Miner
 Reed, William Henry, aged 16, Filler And Wagoner
 Reynolds, William, aged 20, Day Wage Man
 Riley, John, jnr., aged 20, Wagoner
 Riley, John, snr., aged 44, Coal Miner
 Riley, William, aged 17, Wagoner
 Robbins, Thomas, aged 38, Coal Miner
 Roberts, Edward, aged 19, Horse Driver
 Roberts, George, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Rothwell, James, aged 23, Coal Miner
 Rushton, William, aged 17, Wagoner
 Ryder, John, aged 46, Coal Miner
 Ryder, William, aged 48, Coal Miner
 Sackfield, John, aged 48, Coal Miner
 Sackfield, Thomas, aged 13, Wagoner
 Seddon, Thomas, aged 37, Coal Miner
 Sedon, Richard, aged 41, Oiler Of Wagons
 Sharples, Samuel, aged 34, Coal Miner
 Slattery, Thomas, aged 34, Coal Miner
 Smethills, John, aged 32, Coal Miner
 Sofield, Edward, aged 29, Coal Miner
 Staley, Thomas, aged 23, Coal Miner
 Stazicker, Alfred, aged 16, Wagoner
 Sutton, John, aged 26, Wagoner
 Tatlock, James, aged 21, Coal Miner
 Taylor, Hamlet, aged 36, Coal Miner
 Taylor, John, aged 16, Wagoner
 Taylor, John, aged 44, Coal Miner
 Taylor, John Hamlet, aged 20, Coal Miner
 Taylor, Thomas, aged 44, Furnaceman
 Turner, James, aged 34, Fireman
 Turner, William, aged 30, Day Wage Man
 Valentine, Albert, aged 27, Bricklayer's Labourer
 Vickers, James, aged 22, Coal Miner
 Vickers, Samuel, aged 56, Coal Miner
 Wadsworth, Ralph, aged 23, Coal Miner
 Wallace, Arthur, aged 19, Filler
 Wardle, William, aged 34, Coal Miner
 Warren, James, aged 17, Wagoner
 Whitehead, Joseph, aged 30, Coal Miner
 Whittingham, James, aged 33
 Willcock, Peter, aged 17, Filler
 Williams, James, aged 27, Coal Miner
 Williams, Samuel, aged 16, Pony Driver
 Williams, Thomas, aged 19, Day Wage Man
 Williams, William, aged 30, Coal Miner
 Wolstenholme, John, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Wolstenholme, Peter, aged 25, Coal Miner
 Worrall, Robert, aged 13, Wagoner
 Worsley, Thomas, aged 28, Wagon Filler
 Worthington, George, aged 33, Coal Miner
 Yates, John, aged 26, Coal Miner
 
All names found
 
Youngest: 13 years old ; Oldest: 65 ; Average: 28

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