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COPE E. - 1866 - 06/04/1866 - Collier. Jackfield Plant and Co., Burslem, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp. 4 killed.

COPE E. - 1867 - 08/03/1867 – Age 25 - Pikeman. Bradley, GB Thorneycroft and Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in thin mine whilst holing the result of insufficient spragging.

COPE J. - 1869 - 16/08/1869 – Age 30 - Collier. Middle Cale, Brocklehurst and Co., Stockport, Cheshire. Fall of Coal.

COPELAND J. - 1866 - 09/04/1866 - Miner. Clanway (ironstone), H Clive, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fall of stone. 2 killed.

COPELAND John - 1860 - 02/03/1860 - Boy. Burradon Colliery, Burradon, Durham. Explosion of gas. 76 killed.

COPELAND John - 1861 - 06/03/1861 – Age 21 - Miner. Braehead (ironstone), William Baird and Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of ironstone.

COPLEY Abraham - 1864 - 03/03/1864. Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery, Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine.

CORBET J. - 1863 - 08/11/1863 - Miner. Old Park (ironstone), Old Park Co., Wellington, Shropshire. Explosion of firedamp.

CORBETT Elizabeth - 1861 - 10/08/1861 – Age 26 - Banksman. Lawley Bank, Coalbrookdale Co., Wellington, Shropshire. Fell down the shaft. Female.

CORBETT J. - 1868 - 24/01/1868 – Age 12 - Driver. Dawley (ironstone), Coalbrookdale Co., Wellington, Shropshire.

CORBETT Thomas - 1867 - 06/06/1867 – Age 15 - Haulier. Glyn (ironstone), Ebbw Vale Co., Pontypool, Monmouth. Killed by crush of trams on surface whilst taking off the hitchings some obstacle in the meantime had stopped the front tram.

CORBETT Thomas - 1867 - 13/02/1867 – Age 18 – Joiner. West Auckland, Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Bishop Auckland, Durham. By machinery while laying a rope on to the winding engine.

CORBETT W. - 1867 - 23/12/1867 – Age 20 - Bandsman. Old Park (ironstone), Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Accidental fall of roof from a slip in White ironstone workings.

CORFIELD R. - 1864 - 01/06/1864 – Age 32 - Collier. Barber’s Field, Barber’s Field Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in new mine Coal.

CORKLAND James - 1866 - 12/11/1866 - Horsedriver. Haigh Wigan, Iron and Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Attempting to get out of the cage whilst ascending the pit.

CORNEFEE Barnard - 1869 - 27/12/1869 – Age 48 – Screenman. Newbottle, Earl of Durham. Fence Houses Durham. Crushed by waggons.

CORNFIELD Richard - 1863 - 01/01/1863. Ardsley, Oaks Barber and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

CORNWELL Thomas - 1860 - 20/06/1860 - Drawer. Arniston, John Christie, Dalkeith, Mid Lothian. Fall of stone from roof at face of working.

CORRIGAN John - 1865 - 26/12/1865 – Age 46 - Collier. Old Ince Hall, Robert James and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp.

COSDRIFT A - 1868 - 01/09/1868 - Miner. Willenhall New (ironstone), Fletcher Solly and Co., Willenhall, Staffordshire. Fall of ironstone measures.

COSLETT Isaac - 1862 - 17/05/1862 – Age 19 - Collier. Tondu, John Brogden and Sons, Bridgend, Glamorgan. Fall of roof yard vein.

COTTAM Eliza - 1862 - 29/12/1862 – Age 13 - Pit bank assistant. Park Lane, Mercer and Evans, Ashton, Wigan, Lancashire. By falling from the top of a loaded wagon on surface. Female.

COTTAM Henry - 1864 - 22/04/1864 - Collier. Rainford, Rainford Coal Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof or top Coal. 2 killed.

COTTAM Peter - 1864 - 22/04/1864 - Drawer. Rainford, Rainford Coal Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof or top Coal. 2 killed.

COTTAM Richard - 1868 - 12/08/1868 – Age 36 - Collier. Peasley Cross, Bournes and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Struck by tub on incline plane.

COTTERILL J. - 1861 - 28/11/1861 – Age 40 - Collier. Bradley Green, William Bradbury, Congleton, Cheshire. Fall of roof.

COTTLE Nicholas - 1862 - 08/12/1862. Edmunds Main, Mitchell and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam. 59 killed.

COTTLE Robert - 1862 - 08/12/1862. Edmunds Main, Mitchell and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam. 59 killed.

COTTON M - 1865 - 29/11/1865 – Age 35 - Collier. Madeley Wood, John Anstice and Co., Ironbridge, Shropshire. Fall of Coal.

COTTON Thomas - 1865 - 29/06/1865 – Age 29. New Watergate, James and William Pascoe, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Coal falling.

COTTON W. - 1861 - 25/07/1861 – Age 29 - Pikeman. Salt Well, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal.

COTTON W. - 1868 - 27/02/1868 – Age 31- Sinker. Nunnery, B Huntsman, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Hit by stone which fell from side of shaft.

COULSON, John - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 33. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife and four children.

COULSON, John - 1869 - 29/01/1869 – Age 55 - Hewer. Springwell, J Bowes and Partners, Gateshead, Durham. Explosion of gas. 5 killed.

COULSON, Robert - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 26. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife three children.

COUNCILL Samuel - 1866 - 10/12/1866 – Age 12 - Waggoner. Bank, John Wright, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Cannel mine workings. 8 killed.

COUND F - 1862 - 20/05/1862 – Age 15 - Miner. Bradley (ironstone), GB Thorneycroft, Bilston, Staffordshire. Inundation of water from thick coal workings. 7 killed.

COURT Edward - 1866 - 06/04/1866. Top Pits, Abersychan. Fell out of the bond.

COURT Henry - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 13. Black Vein, Risca Iron and Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. This lamenatble calamity was occasioned by a sudden outburst of gas on most probably, a defective lamp. 142 persons, killed.

COUSENER James - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 28. Black Vein, Risca Iron and Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. This lamenatble calamity was occasioned by a sudden outburst of gas on most probably, a defective lamp. 142 persons, killed.

COUSINS John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 18. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COUSINS Robert - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 10. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COUTTS Thomas - 1865 - 07/04/1865 – Age 38 - Deputy Overman. Pentyrch, TW Booker and Co., Cardiff, Glamorgan. Fell down the shaft. Coal was raised from 2 places in the shaft and he was ascending from the lower place and it was supposed he attempted to get out at the upper place without stopping the carriage.

COWAN John - 1868 - 14/02/1868 – Age 13 - Boy. No.3 Grougar Pit, Portland Iron Co., Galston, Ayrshire. Fall of stone at face.

COWARD Charles - 1860 - 28/08/1860. Wharncliffe Silkstone, Wharncliffe Silkstone Coal Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Falling down the shaft.

COWBURN J - 1868 - 01/02/1868 – Age 19. Walsh, Farnley Iron Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Chimney blown down in gale fell on them whilst sitting in a cabin at the pit. 2 killed.

COWBURN R. - 1862 - 05/09/1862 – Age 16 - Waggoner. How Bridge, John Fletcher and others, Atherton, Lancashire. Crushed by a waggon on the jig-brow chain breaking in 6-Feet mine. Died 7th.

COWELL Edward - 1861 - 10/01/1861 – Age 12 - Driver. North Hetton, Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Fell from main coal mouthing to Hutton Seam.

COWELL William - 1866 - 12/01/1866 – Age 17 - Putter. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Brothers, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Killed by tubs in engine plane, riding contrary to orders and to a printed notice arising from Collision. 5 killed.

COWEY John * - 1866 - 05/02/1866 – Age 23. Belmont, Durham.

COWEY Robert - 1867 - 08/03/1867 - Age 37 - Hewer. Shotton (Harvey) Haswell Coal and Coke Co., Haswell Durham. Fall of stone.

COWHERD William - 1866 - 04/09/1866 – Age 14 – Carting Boy. Timsbury, Timsbury Coal Co., Timsbury Somerset. By pressure a piece of Coal burst off from the face of ‘long work’ in the Sliving vein in the upper Coneygre pit and killed him. If the gob had been closer up it would not have received so much pressure and the Coal would not have flown at him like a cannonball.

COWLEY John - 1866 - 05/02/1866 – Age 23 - Hewer. Belmont, Charles Bell and Co., Durham. Fall of stone.

COWPER Thurston - 1869 - 23/11/1869 – Age 36 – Dayman. Park Hall, Arley Main Co., Blackrod, Lancashire. Roof falling as he was drawing props.

COX B. - 1864 - 05/02/1864 - Bandsman. Capponfield, Chillington Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall of roof rock in the new mine Coal. Brought about through disobedience to orders and violation of 33 special rule.

COX Charles - 1860 - 01/12/1860. Black Vein, Risca Iron and Coal Co., Risca, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. This lamenatble calamity was occasioned by a sudden outburst of gas on most probably, a defective lamp. 142 persons, killed.

COX George - 1863 - 11/04/1863 – Age 28 - Sinker. Old Mills, Hill Evans and Co., Paulton, Somerset. Got onto a scaffold whilst a ‘shide’ was being lowered and he fell 16 yards down the pit and was killed.

COX J - 1864 - 23/04/1864 - Bandsman. Cooper’s Bank, SG Blackwell and Co., Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal from roof in thick Coal. Rib and pillar pit (accidental). 2 Killed.

COX James - 1867 - 13/06/1867 – Age 47 - Pitman. Coedcae Colliery, Coedcae Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fell down shaft.

COX James - 1867 - 18/06/1867 – Age 15 – Horse Boy. Bretby, Earl of Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Run over.

COX James - 1868 - 23/10/1868 – Age 35 - Collier. Bute, Merthyr Marquis of Bute, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Killed by fall of stone.

COX W - 1863 - 22/01/1863 - Collier. Brades S and J Hunt, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fall of coal in thick coal rib and pillar pit occasioned by 2 slips.

COXER Thomas - 1863 - 17/10/1863. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Explosion, of gas. 39 killed.

COXON George - 1869 - 01/09/1869 – Age 64 - Driver. Old Durham. Earl Vane, Durham. Crushed between horse and waggon.

COYLE J - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 28. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COYLE J - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 28. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. He was an Irishman who lodged with the Bennetts.

COYLES John - 1867 - 31/05/1867 – Age 39 - Hewer. Washington, Durham.  Cage accident. 10 killed. Wife and nine children.

COYLES or Coil John - 1867 - 01/06/1867 – Age 39 - Miner. Washington Bell, Kimpster and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Overwinding. 10 killed.

COYNE J. - 1867 - 29/11/1867 – Age 30 - Bandsman. Deepfields, P Williams, Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall of roof in thin mine.

CRACKLE James - 1869 - 01/12/1869 – Age 13 - Boy. Swadlincote, Hall and Boardman, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Fell off screens playing during dinner hour.

CRADDOCK E. - 1861 - 09/01/1861 - Collier. Brownhills, William Harrison, Walsall, Staffordshire. Suffocated with smoke from a fire which originated in an airway in the ‘Deep Coal’ workings of an adjoining pit. 6 killed.

CRAIG Hugh - 1861 - 07/08/1861 - Collier. Dykehead, Wilsons and Co., Hamilton, Fife. Woodwork of pit taking fire which deranged the ventilation. 13 killed.

CRAIG John - 1861 - 07/08/1861 - Collier. Dykehead, Wilsons and Co., Hamilton, Fife. Woodwork of pit taking fire which deranged the ventilation. 13 killed.

CRAIG John - 1861 - 23/08/1861 - Age 23 - Miner. Possil (ironstone), Wilsons and Co., Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Fall of ironstone.

CRAIG John - 1865 - 09/05/1865 – Age 60 - Collier. Garscube, James Barclay, Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

CRAIG John - 1868 - 13/04/1868 – Age 22 - Guard. Backworth Colliery, Lamb Taylor and Co., Newcastle, Northumberland. Run over by waggons.

CRAIG Robertson - 1864 - 01/08/1864 – Age 27 - Collier. Britton, WD Dixon, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 3 killed.

CRAIG Thomas - 1865 - 31/10/1865 – Age 13 - Horsedriver. Sherburn House, Earl of Durham, Durham. Crushed between tub and door frame.

CRANE Joseph - 1866 - 30/05/1866 – Age 44- Sinker. South Liberty, Ashton Vale Co., Ltd., Bedminster, Somerset. They were walling a sinking pit when the end of one of the scaffold supports (bars as they are called here) slipped out and the half-moon tipped to one side and the men fell to the bottom. 2 killed.

CRANE Patrick - 1865 - 12/04/1865 - Labourer. Westminster, Westminster Coal Co., Wrexham, Denbigh. Being injured by railway trucks above ground.

CRANSTON James - 1862 - 14/01/1862 - Fireman. Cleland No.3, William S Dixon, Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while gearing it. 3 killed.

CRAPPER John - 1866 - 19/09/1866 – Age 55 - Miner. Talke (ironstone), North Staffordshire Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Crushed on jig brow.

CRATCHLEY John - 1866 - 22/01/1866 – Age 13 - Drawer. Prospect, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Standish, Wigan, Lancashire. Crushed by tub in mine.

CRAVEN John - 1864 - 17/11/1864 – Age 23 - Collier. Snibston, GR Stephenson and Co., Leicestershire. Leicestershire. Fall of roof.

CRAWFORD Alexander - 1869 - 02/06/1869 – Age 40 - Collier. Bleeze Merry and Cunningham, Dalry, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at face.