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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  10th March 1890
Colliery:  Morfa
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp and coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing
Lives Lost:  87

 Barvass, William, Colliery Manager
 Bevan, Griff, aged 32, residence: Taibach
 Brownsill, Daniel, aged 40, residence: Constant
 Buckley, Daniel
 Buckley, John
 Clatworthy, William Henry, aged 18, residence: Morfa
 Cormick, William, aged 48, residence: Constant
 Daniel, T
 David, John, aged 40, residence: Brick Row
 David, Thomas, aged 46, residence: Bridge Row
 Davies, D., aged 33, residence: Gwarrycaeau
 Davies, Ebenezer, aged 36, residence: Miners Row
 Davies, Meredith, residence: Constant
 Davies, T., aged 20, residence: Stone Row
 Eley, Evan, aged 40, residence: White Row
 Ellis, Edward, aged 48, residence: Chapel Row
 Floyd, Ted, aged 32, residence: Constant
 Francis, William, aged 34, residence: Taibach
 Gates, T., aged 20, residence: Brick Row
 Griffiths, Dan, aged 42, residence: Stone Row
 Griffiths, John, aged 42, residence: Gwarrycaeau
 Griffiths, Sam, aged 50, residence: Stone Row
 Haycock, Bethuel, aged 19, residence: Bridge Row
 Hedley, Evan, aged 40, residence: Kenfig Hill
 Hicks, Joseph, aged 20, residence: Aberavon
 Hopkins, D., aged 52, residence: Incline Row
 Hopkins, T., aged 51, residence: Brick Row
 Hopton, John
 Howell, Sam, aged 46, residence: Pantymach
 James, William, aged 40, residence: Stone Row
 James, William, residence: Constant
 Jenkins, Fred William, aged 16, residence: Brick Row
 John, Daniel, residence: Margam Terrace
 Jones, David, aged 52, residence: Aberavon
 Jones, J., residence: Bridge Row
 Jones, John, residence: Taibach
 Jones, William, aged 40, residence: Constant
 Jones, William J., residence: Taibach
 Kemp, T.
 Kennedy, Pat
 King, David, aged 38, residence: Miners Row
 Lewis, Ben, aged 28, residence: Stone Row
 Lewis, John, aged 38, residence: West End
 Lewis, Richard, aged 40, residence: Taibach
 Lewis, Sim, residence: Taibach
 Lewis, Thomas, aged 40, residence: Goitre
 Lewis, William, aged 36, residence: Brick Row
 Lewis, William, aged 46, residence: Goitre
 Leyshon, John, aged 40, residence: Taibach
 Leyshon, T., aged 48, residence: Stone Row
 Leyshon, Thomas, aged 30
 Leyshon, William, aged 50, residence: Constant
 Mandry, Noah, aged 50, residence: Cwmbrombil
 Mandry, Thomas
 Mathews, David, aged 30, residence: White Row
 Miles, T., aged 48, residence: Penycae
 Morgan, Evan, aged 21, residence: Brick Row
 Morgan, Evan, residence: Taibach
 Morris, John, aged 47, residence: Morfa
 Morris, John, aged 44, residence: Stone Row
 Nicholas, John, aged 28, residence: Taibach
 Nicholas, John, aged 62, residence: Salt Lake
 Oates, Rees, aged 14
 Parker, Henry
 Peppin, John, aged 39, residence: Brick Row
 Phillips, Alfred, aged 40, residence: Brick Row
 Price, D., aged 36, residence: Tan-y-Groes
 Ready, John, aged 50, residence: Aberavon
 Rees, David, residence: Groeswen
 Rees, Lewis, aged 42, residence: Brick Row
 Richards, David, aged 36, residence: Stone Row
 Scott, William, aged 31, residence: Gibson Terrace
 Taylor, William
 Thomas, Evan, aged 34, residence: Cwmbrombil
 Thomas, Joseph, aged 50, residence: Penycae
 Thomas, William, aged 32, residence: Margam
 Tippett, James, aged 16, residence: Taibach
 Vanstone, William, aged 32, residence: Penycae
 Walters, Isaac, aged 16, residence: White Row
 Walters, Richard, aged 49, residence: Taibach
 Wild, David
 Williams, David, aged 46, residence: Stone Row
 Williams, David, aged 19, residence: Stone Row
 Williams, Henny, aged 70, residence: Aberavon
 Williams, Isaac, aged 50, residence: Constant
 Williams, James, aged 16, residence: Taibach
 Williams, T.H., aged 36, residence: Brick Row
 Yorath, T., aged 38, residence: Taibach
 
All names found
 
Youngest: 14 years old ; Oldest: 70 ; Average: 38

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