Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	21st December 1910
Colliery:	Hulton No. 3, Pretoria Pit
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by safety lamp
Lives Lost:	344

Description

We are grateful to The Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project who furnished us with a complete list of the victims of the disaster. Much more information about the disaster and details on the victims can be found on their web site: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Westhoughton/Pretoria/index.html.

	Aldred, Thomas, aged 14
	Anderton, William, aged 15
	Ascroft, William Lees, aged 14
	Ashton, William, aged 22
	Aspden, Arthur, aged 21
	Aspden, John Thomas, aged 37
	Aspden, Walter, aged 28
	Atherton, Joseph Edward, aged 14
	Austin, John, aged 37
	Baker, James, aged 25
	Balforn, Fred, aged 30
	Ball, Job, aged 52
	Bates, Enoch Arthur, aged 23
	Battersby, Joseph Grundy, aged 16
	Baxter, James, aged 32
	Baxter, John, aged 57
	Baxter, John, aged 30
	Baxter, Samuel, aged 24
	Bellew, William, aged 19
	Bennett, Henry, aged 20
	Bennett, Israel, aged 24
	Bennett, Thomas, aged 22
	Bennett, William, aged 17
	Berry, James, aged 21
	Blundell, Henry, aged 38
	Boardman, George, aged 23
	Boardman, John, aged 33
	Boardman, Walter, aged 28
	Bond, William Alfred, aged 28
	Bradley, John, aged 20
	Bradley, William, aged 50
	Bromby, William, aged 37
	Brown, William Thomas, aged 39
	Bullough, Adam, aged 28
	Bullough, John, aged 55
	Byers, Fountain, aged 33
	Calderbank, Alfred, aged 49
	Calderbank, Robert, aged 23
	Calderbank, Thomas, aged 23
	Calderbank, William, aged 21
	Cattell, Cyril, aged 14
	Catterall, William, aged 40
	Chadwick, Jesse, aged 23
	Chadwick, Orlando, aged 42
	Chetwynd, Arthur, aged 21
	Clarke, James, aged 24
	Clayton, Richard, aged 52
	Clynes, Edward, aged 15
	Coffey, Ambrose, aged 24
	Coffey, Frederick, aged 30
	Coffey, John, aged 28
	Connolly, William, aged 16
	Coop, Thomas Henry, aged 28
	Cope, Robert, aged 19
	Cowburn, Robert, aged 16
	Cowburn, Samuel, aged 55
	Cowburn, William, aged 40
	Critchley, Mark, aged 22
	Critchley, Samuel, aged 29
	Crook, Walter, aged 16
	Croston, Ralph, aged 25
	Croston, William, aged 38
	Curwen, Robert Clifford, aged 19
	Darlington, Joseph, aged 28
	Davies, Benjamin Aaron, aged 23
	Dawson, William, aged 41
	Delafield, Sydney, aged 25
	Delafield, Thomas, aged 23
	Dootson, Fred, aged 27
	Dootson, Henry, aged 24
	Dootson, John Thomas, aged 26
	Dootson, Samuel, aged 30
	Dorcey, Dennis, aged 14
	Doxey, Anthony, aged 18
	Doxey, Harry, aged 23
	Doxey, Samuel, aged 25
	Doxey, William, aged 51
	Duffy, Peter, aged 25
	Dunn, Thomas, aged 34
	Dyke, William, aged 39
	Eccleston, James, aged 60
	Eccleston, James, aged 31
	Eccleston, William, aged 20
	Emmett, Leonard, aged 18
	Emmett, Thomas, aged 32
	Evans, Roland, aged 32
	Evans, William, aged 26
	Fairhurst, Richard, aged 47
	Farrimond, James, aged 15
	Farrimond, Samuel, aged 37
	Farrimond, Thomas, aged 40
	Faulkner, Thomas, aged 16
	Faulkner, Thomas Charles, aged 25
	Feely, James, aged 31
	Flood, John, aged 27
	Foster, Walter, aged 28
	Gerrard, Orlando, aged 21
	Gibbs, Thomas, aged 26
	Gibson, Herbert, aged 18
	Gibson, Simeon, aged 16
	Gill, Thomas, aged 22
	Gore, William, aged 42
	Goulding, Richard, aged 34
	Goulding, William, aged 35
	Green, Edward Halliwell, aged 22
	Green, James, aged 34
	Green, Peter, aged 41
	Green, Richard, aged 53
	Green, Thomas, aged 28
	Green, William, aged 13
	Greenall, Joseph, aged 34
	Greenall, Thomas, aged 36
	Greenhalgh, Thomas, aged 61
	Greenhalgh, Thomas, aged 24
	Griffiths, Albert, aged 26
	Grundy, David, aged 48
	Hardman, Albert, aged 17
	Hardman, Samuel, aged 19
	Hargreaves, John Robert, aged 27
	Harris, Edward, aged 14
	Hartley, Nicholas, aged 44
	Hastie, Gerald, aged 19
	Hastie, Thomas, aged 21
	Hayes, Frederick, aged 43
	Hayes, William, aged 28
	Haynes, Edward, aged 35
	Hesketh, William, aged 26
	Hewitt, John Edward Ernest, aged 45
	Higham, James, aged 60
	Higham, Joseph, aged 23
	Higson, John, aged 44
	Higson, Peter, aged 46
	Higson, William, aged 23
	Hilton, James, aged 25
	Hilton, Joseph, aged 54
	Hilton, Montague Boardman, aged 29
	Hilton, Percy, aged 25
	Hilton, William, aged 26
	Hindle, Fred, aged 22
	Hodgkiss, James, aged 31
	Hodgkiss, Lewis, aged 39
	Hodgkiss, Lewis, aged 15
	Hodgkiss, Stanley, aged 14
	Hodson, John, aged 35
	Hogan, James Edward, aged 15
	Holden, Henry, aged 31
	Holden, James, aged 15
	Hollingsworth, Edward, aged 33
	Hollingsworth, William, aged 31
	Holt, Albert, aged 28
	Hook, Frederick, aged 14
	Hope, Thomas, aged 15
	Horrocks, Joseph, aged 19
	Horrocks, Thomas, aged 49
	Hosker, John, aged 16
	Houghton, Elias, aged 23
	Houghton, Frederick Stanley, aged 13
	Houghton, John, aged 46
	Houghton, John Thomas, aged 46
	Houghton, Thomas, aged 17
	Houseman, Edward, aged 15
	Howarth, Albert, aged 16
	Howcroft, Thomas, aged 34
	Howcroft, Thomas, aged 25
	Hulme, Stephen, aged 29
	Hundy, John, aged 53
	Hundy, Samuel, aged 39
	Hurst, James, aged 50
	Hurst, Thomas, aged 55
	Hurst, Thomas, aged 49
	Hurst, Thomas, aged 19
	Jolley, Richard, aged 24
	Jolley, Thomas, aged 49
	Jolly, William Thompson, aged 25
	Jones, Joseph, aged 24
	Kay, William, aged 30
	Kenwright, Edward, aged 28
	Laughna, Thomas, aged 23
	Lee, Frederick, aged 36
	Lee, Josiah, aged 23
	Leigh, James, aged 14
	Leigh, John, aged 42
	Leigh, Peter, aged 50
	Leigh, Walter, aged 21
	Leyland, Joseph, aged 24
	Light, Richard, aged 45
	Livesey, James, aged 17
	Livesey, John, aged 15
	Longmate, Richard Nelson, aged 29
	Longworth, Peter, aged 23
	Lonsdale, Albert, aged 37
	Lovett, James, aged 28
	Lovett, Joseph, aged 50
	Lovett, Wright, aged 16
	Lowe, Andrew, aged 23
	Mangnall, Abel, aged 22
	Mangnall, Walter, aged 30
	Markland, William Ewart Gladstone, aged 17
	Marrin, Martin, aged 30
	Marsh, Robert, aged 20
	Marsh, Thomas, aged 55
	Martin, Thomas, aged 23
	Mather, Daniel, aged 23
	Mather, Edward, aged 35
	Mather, Richard, aged 49
	McCabe, Joseph, aged 22
	McCabe, Matthew, aged 24
	McCabe, Michael, aged 19
	McDonald, James, aged 26
	Mead, William, aged 49
	Middlehurst, William Henry, aged 48
	Miller, Harry, aged 32
	Miller, James, aged 28
	Miller, Joseph, aged 31
	Mills, James, aged 26
	Molloy, Michael, aged 26
	Molyneux, Thomas Wilcock, aged 26
	Monks, John, aged 19
	Monks, Percival, aged 36
	Morris, James, aged 30
	Morris, John, aged 22
	Morris, John, aged 36
	Morris, Joseph, aged 13
	Morris, Robert, aged 43
	Morris, William, aged 34
	Moss, Peter, aged 15
	Naylor, Willia Edward, aged 15
	Norman, Albert, aged 36
	Nuttall, David, aged 23
	Oakes, John James, aged 13
	Owens, Thomas, aged 27
	Parr, John, aged 51
	Partington, Harry, aged 19
	Partington, James, aged 42
	Partington, Joseph, aged 25
	Partington, Samuel, aged 16
	Partington, Thomas, aged 19
	Partington, Thomas, aged 24
	Partington, William, aged 40
	Pauldin, James, aged 21
	Pemberton, Enoch, aged 29
	Pemberton, Fred, aged 16
	Pemberton, John Lowden, aged 21
	Pendlebury, Harold, aged 16
	Perks, George Henry, aged 19
	Potter, George Percy, aged 16
	Potter, James, aged 15
	Potter, William, aged 39
	Prescott, Herbert, aged 24
	Prescott, John, aged 23
	Price, Henry, aged 22
	Price, James, aged 42
	Ratcliffe, Fred, aged 21
	Ratcliffe, Isaac, aged 23
	Ratcliffe, Thomas, aged 40
	Ratcliffe, William, aged 31
	Riding, Benjamin, aged 19
	Riding, William, aged 22
	Rigby, William, aged 60
	Roberts, Albert, aged 15
	Roberts, John, aged 27
	Roberts, Robert, aged 21
	Rushton, Edward, aged 36
	Rushton, John, aged 31
	Sargeant, George, aged 28
	Saunders, Edward, aged 18
	Saunders, John, aged 13
	Schofield, Fred, aged 20
	Schofield, James, aged 35
	Schofield, William, aged 32
	Scoble, Joseph, aged 53
	Seddon, James, aged 22
	Seddon, James, aged 22
	Seddon, John Wilfrid, aged 19
	Seddon, Joseph, aged 18
	Seddon, Matthew, aged 24
	Seddon, Matthew, aged 50
	Seddon, Richard, aged 24
	Shambley, Albert, aged 17
	Shambley, William, aged 28
	Sharples, George, aged 60
	Sharples, Richard, aged 33
	Shaw, Ralph, aged 35
	Simmons, Daniel, aged 21
	Skeldon, Mark, aged 28
	Smith, Albert, aged 25
	Smith, Isaac, aged 30
	Smith, John, aged 43
	Smith, Thomas, aged 53
	Smith, William, aged 46
	Southern, Oliver, aged 21
	Southern, William, aged 29
	Southworth, Fred, aged 22
	Spencer, Richard Lawrence, aged 27
	Teasdale, Fred, aged 46
	Thomas, Daniel, aged 35
	Thomas, Edward, aged 26
	Thomas, William James, aged 28
	Thomasson, Paul, aged 43
	Thomasson, Richard, aged 51
	Thornley, Samuel, aged 25
	Tonge, Richard, aged 14
	Topping, John, aged 53
	Topping, Joseph, aged 23
	Tumblety, John Edward, aged 20
	Tunstall, George, aged 56
	Tunstall, George, aged 16
	Turner, Moses, aged 21
	Turton, William, aged 60
	Tyldesley, John, aged 53
	Tyldesley, John, aged 25
	Tyldesley, Joseph, aged 17
	Tyldesley, Thomas, aged 23
	Tyldesley, William, aged 28
	Tyrer, James, aged 48
	Unsworth, Albert, aged 17
	Unsworth, James, aged 30
	Unsworth, Jehu, aged 43
	Unsworth, William, aged 23
	Vickers, Herbert, aged 22
	Vickers, Walter, aged 28
	Waring, John, aged 14
	Wharmby, Samuel, aged 26
	Wharton, Charles, aged 36
	While, Benjamin, aged 20
	Whittaker, Robert, aged 32
	Wignall, William, aged 14
	Wild, John, aged 17
	Wild, Richard, aged 44
	Wild, Thomas, aged 15
	Williams, George, aged 24
	Wise, John Andrew, aged 44
	Withington, James Ernest, aged 13
	Wolstencroft, Fred, aged 39
	Woods, Alfred Edward, aged 15
	Woods, Arthur, aged 14
	Woodward, Percy, aged 18
	Woodward, Samuel, aged 34
	Woodward, Thomas, aged 32
	Woodward, Walter, aged 41
	Worthington, James, aged 59
	Worthington, Thomas, aged 36
	Wyper, Henry, aged 21
	Yates, Thomas, aged 30
	All names found
	Youngest: 13 years old ; Oldest: 61 ; Average: 29

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