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CRESSWELL Thomas - 1865 - 30/04/1865 – Age 13 Branch Driver. Houghall Colliery, Love and Spark, Durham. Run over by waggons on branches.

CRESWELL J. - 1869 - 10/02/1869 – Age 40 - Pikeman. Brownhills Colliery, W Harrison, Brownhills Staffordshire. Fall of clod in mine.

CRESWELL Thomas - 1869 - 14/09/1869 – Age 48 - Miner. Denby (ironstone), WH and G Dawes, Belper, Derbyshire. Fell down shaft.

CREW Emanuel - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 34. 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.

CREW John - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 34. 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.

CREWE S. - 1869 - 03/08/1869 - Collier Boy. Buffery, T Crewe, Dudley, Worcestershire. Suffocated by carbonic acid gas.

CRICHTON David - 1864 - 27/09/1864 – Roadman. Comrie No. 16 (ironstone), Forth Iron Co., Perth, Perthshire. Jammed by cage while repairing shaft.

CRICHTON George - 1869 - 14/01/1869 – Age 23 - Collier. Grange No.2, Robert Yeats and Co., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof.

CRISTER William - 1861 - 11/02/1861 – Age 26 - Hewer. Delves Consett Iron Co., Consett, Durham. Fall of stone (after being warned).

CRITCHLEY Henry - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Talk o’th’ Hill, North Stafford Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of gas. 92 killed.

CRITCHLEY Henry - 1869 - 27/10/1869 – Age 49 - Collier. Riding Lane, Cross Tetley and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

CROALLY Hugh - 1868 - 02/06/1868 – Age 60 - Collier. Kilgramie, Joseph Whitfield, Girvan, Ayrshire. Fall of Coal and roof.

CROCKETT J. - 1867 - 14/12/1867 – Age 40 - Bandsman. Shut End, Messrs. Cochrane, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal which a bump forced off the Corner of a pillar in a thick Coal pit.

CROCKETT W. - 1860 - 27/06/1860 – Age 29 - Miner. Pinnox, H.H. Williamson, Burslem, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal.

CROFT Richard - 1868 - 13/10/1868 – Age 36 - Collier. Charity Colliery, Addenbrooke and Pedcock, Bedworth, Leicestershire. Fall of roof.

CROFTON John - 1865 - 12/05/1865 – Age 11 - Drawer. Back Hill, Richard Norris, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof which the Fireman had reported safe a short time before. 2 killed.

CROLLY Michael - 1868 - 02/06/1868 - Drawer. Chapel House, Thomas Farrimond, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Fall of Coal 2 killed.

CROMACK Benjamin - 1860 - 29/11/1860. Woolley Colliery, Woolley Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Falling down the shaft.

CROMBIE James - 1862 - 30/09/1862 - Contractor. Capeldrae, Robert Aytoun, Kirkcaldy, Fife. Fall of stone.

CROMPTON Charles - 1864 - 16/11/1864 – Age 17. Withymoor, Messrs. Nock, Withymoor, Staffordshire. Fell part way down shaft. The chain broke. 8 killed.

CROMPTON H. - 1860 - 18/10/1860 – Age 15 - Drawer. Worsley, Bridgewater Trust, Worsley, Lancashire. Dragged down a brow by a full tram to which he was hooked.

CROMPTON John - 1861 - 09/09/1861 – Age 10 - Waggoner. Blackbrook, Bromilow Brothers and Sothern, St. Helens, Lancashire. Crushed between two waggons on surface.

CROMPTON William - 1861 - 27/02/1861 – Age 16. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Worsley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Rams mines. 9 killed.

CROMPTON William - 1865 - 14/12/1865 – Age 10 - Waggoner. Doffcocker, Thomas Cross, Bolton, Lancashire. Crushed by the pump rods on his falling off the platform at the pit head.

CROMWELL William - 1864 - 19/07/1864 - Collier. Ince Hall, Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

CRONEN Thomas - 1864 - 06/07/1864 – Age 21 – Gobber. Terrace Pit, Rhymney Iron Co., Rhymney, Glamorgan. Killed by a fall of rubbish in a part of the Colliery where he had no business whatever. He ought at the time to have been gobbing in front of the face work to which he belonged.

CRONSHAW James - 1868 - 29/04/1868 – Age 39 - Miner. Altham, WE Taylor (Altham Co.), Accrington, Lancashire. Roof falling in some old workings near the outcrop in a clough.

CRONSHAW Richard - 1863 - 26/03/1863 – Age 43 - Driver. Ladyshore, John Fletcher, Little Lever, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in the Great mine. The place appeared to be clear of gas until some props were taken out and the roof fell to an upper coal, after which he returned with an open light instead of a safety lamp.

? CROOK, - 1868 - 25/11/1868. Metal man, Hindley Green, John Scowcroft and Co., Hindley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp. 62 killed.

CROOK, Alexander - 1863 - 11/08/1863 – Age 40 – Roadman. Great Lever, Earl of Bradford, Bolton, Lancashire. Breakage of hemp rope on the engine plane, in 6ft mine. It broke about 6 feet from the end next the waggons.

CROOK, William - 1861 - 01/11/1861 - Age 79 - Collier. Shevington John Tayleur and Son, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 13 killed.

CROOK, William - 1864 - 01/06/1864 - Age 49 - Collier. Bettws Colliery, Bettws Co., Bridgend, Glamorgan. Fall of stone from the roof.

CROOK, William - 1867 - 10/09/1867 - Age 15 - Brow rider. Heskin Hall, Lancashire. Caught by the water tram from which he was stepping off on Coming up the brow.

CROOKSTON John - 1864 - 07/11/1864 – Age 36 - Collier. Rochsolloch No 2, George Cowie, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

CROPPER William - 1865 - 25/04/1865 - Collier. Bickerstaff, Bromilow, Forster and Co., Ormskirk, Lancashire. Fall of roof in the Blaguegate mine.

CROSBY William - 1861 - 23/08/1861 – Age 11 - Driver. Shotton, Haswell Coal Co., Hartlepool, Durham. Killed by surface waggons.

CROSLAND Charles - 1861 - 20/02/1861. Allerton Bywater, Carter and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Falling down the shaft.

CROSLAND James - 1860 - 04/09/1860. West Gawber, Joseph Emsley, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine.

CROSS John - 1868 - 27/06/1868 – Age 19 - Collier. Lings, Wingerworth Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Struck by cage passing under shaft Contrary to orders.

CROSS Joseph - 1867 - 05/10/1867 – Age 33 - Collier. Hindley, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof at the face of his work.

CROSS Philip - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 20. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

CROSS Philip - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 59. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. He left a wife and two children and his widowed daughter, who had two children and lived with them.

CROSSFIELD John - 1868 - 18/05/1868 – Age 14 - Rolley driver. Old Etherley, Henry Stobart and Co., Auckland, Durham. Set of tubs struck him on the chest.

CROSSLAND W - 1868 - 10/12/1868 – Age 37 - Collier. West Allerton, J Bower and Sons, Leeds, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

CROSSLEY Henry - 1869 - 12/02/1869 – Age 45 - Miner. Outwood, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Outwood, Lancashire. Struck by windlass handle. The rope Coiled in a heap and then the outer coils slipped which caused him to let go the handle thinking the rope had broken.

CROSSLEY John - 1869 - 21/07/1869 – Age 42 - Drawer. Queen Colliery, Richard Evans and Sons, Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

CROSSLEY T. - 1861 - 12/02/1861 - Collier. Lord’s Field, Lord’s Field Coal Co., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Fall of roof Coal.

CROTTIE John - 1863 - 17/06/1863 – Age 40- Sinker. Moston, Executors of J Stanley, Manchester, Lancashire. Breakage of a capstan rope at a splicing. The bucket rods had caught on being raised.

CROWE H. - 1866 - 17/04/1866 – Age 21 - Collier. Brownhills, W Harrison, Walsall, Staffordshire. Fell out of cage whilst ascending shaft.

CROWLEY Charles - 1867 - 08/08/1867 – Age 23 - Labourer. Ferndale, David Davies and Son, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Killed by trucks.

CROWTHER Francis - 1865 - 27/05/1865 – Age 46 - Miner. Tongues Field, Bridgewater Trust, Farnworth, Lancashire. Found dead in Wilkin Hall ladder pit. He was ill and it is supposed he fell from the ladders.

CROWTHER James - 1860 - 06/11/1860 – Age 46 - Hewer. Trimdon, T. Wood and Co., Ferry Hill, Durham. Run over by set of Coal tubs.

CROWTHER Mark - 1863 - 16/01/1863 - Age 48 - Waggon trimmer. Cliviger, Cliviger Coal Co., Burnley, Lancashire. Crushed between waggons. He was passing between instead of under the buffers.

CROWTHER Thomas - 1865 - 14/10/1865 – Age 16. Tenting for winding materials only. Rowley Executors of the late J Hargreaves Burnley, Lancashire. Entangled in the chain at an angle pulley on a plane, worked by an endless chain in the mine.

CROWTHER William - 1867 - 08/04/1867 – Age 19 - Miner. Foulclough Colliery, Reuben Haigh and Co., Todmorden, Lancashire. Falling of roof in Mountain mine.

CRUMP Henry - 1867 - 24/08/1867 – Age 31 - Collier. Lightmoor, William Crawshay, Cinderford, Somerset. The cage stopped 47 yards from the bottom to take 2 workmen and Crump, thought he had arrived and stepped out, fell and was killed. They may take people in coming up but not in going down.

CRUMPTON J - 1863 - 05/11/1863 – Age 14 - Collier. Rounds Green, Bennitt and Taylor, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal.

CRUMPTON T. - 1863 - 14/01/1863 - Horsedriver. Brades, S and J Hunt, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal caused by 2 slips. Injured 7th. Died this day.

CRYER T. - 1861 - 11/04/1861 – Age 18 - Collier. Handle Hall, James Dearden, Rochdale, Lancashire. Fall of stone from the roof.

CUBBITT John - 1867 - 10/03/1867 – Age 23 - Collier. Lawton, Bidder and Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fell down shaft.

CUDWORTH Henry - 1866 - 23/05/1866 - Miner. Bardsley, Bardsley Co., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Roof falling in Old mine whilst holing.

CUFFING G. - 1860 - 17/04/1860 – Age 26 - Miner. Hollingwood, R. Barrow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Run over by loaded tram on engine plane.

CULLEN Owen - 1864 - 10/12/1864 – Age 25 - Drawer. Overton No. 3 John Wilson, Lanarkshire. Crushed by cage while attempting to cross pit bottom instead of going by road.

CULMAN R. - 1862 - 28/10/1862 – Age 21 - Loader. Snibston, GR Stephenson, Leicestershire. Fall of roof.

CULSHAW J. - 1861 - 08/08/1861. Coppull, John Hargreaves, Coppull, Lancashire. Fall of Coal.

CULSHAW James - 1861 - 01/11/1861 – Age 22 - Collier. Shevington, John Tayleur and Son, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 13 killed.

CULSHAW John - 1861 - 01/11/1861 – Age 29 - Collier. Shevington, John Tayleur and Son, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 13 killed.

CULSHAW John - 1862 - 22/05/1862 – Age 43 - Collier. Railway, Executors of the late John Darlington, Coppull, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

CULSHAW William - 1863 - 20/10/1863 – Age 18 - Drawer. Welch, Whittle James, Darlington, Whittle, Chorley Lancashire. Fall of roof.

CUMBERLAND. Ephraim - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Talk o’th’ Hill, North Staffordshire. Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of gas. 92 killed.

CUMMIN James - 1868 - 22/12/1868 – Age 26 - Labourer. Brynn Hall, W and J Crippen, Wigan, Lancashire. Crushed between railway trucks.

CUMMING John - 1861 - 27/08/1861 – Age 45 - Collier. Titwood, Sir John Maxwell, Pollokshaws. Walked into the shaft unknowingly from the surface.

CUMMING John - 1862 - 10/07/1862 – Age 44 - Hewer. Low Bitchburn, John Sharp, Crook, Durham. Crushed by tubs drawn by a horse.

CUMMINGS John - 1866 - 01/03/1866 – Age 36 - Gas maker. South Hetton, South Hetton Coal Co., Fencehouses, Durham. Explosion of gas at refiner.

CUMMINS William - 1867 - 14/01/1867 – Age 48 - Shifter. Norwood (Oaks), Hedley Place and Co., Evenwood, Durham. Fall of Coal.

CUNLIFFE Alice - 1861 - 02/11/1861 – Age 13 - Wagon filler. Blackeyhurst, Samuel Stock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Crushed between two waggons on surface. Female.

CUNLIFFE William - 1865 - 05/05/1865 – Age 43 - Collier. Blackeyhurst, Samuel Stock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Foster and Walsh were employed to take down and rebuild an arch near the eye of the pit and Cunliffe was showing them how to proceed when it fell upon them. 3 killed.

CUNLIFFE William - 1869 - 29/03/1869 – Age 56 - Labourer. Haydock, Richard Evans and Sons, St. Helens, Lancashire. Falling from a mouthing part way down shaft.

CUNNINGHAM N - 1867 - 09/02/1867 – Age 67 – Mason’s Labourer. Willington, Strakers and Love, Brancepeth Durham. Run over and crushed by waggons.

CUNNINGHAM Robert - 1868 - 01/07/1868 – Age 12 - Driver. Plashetts Colliery, Laws Tone and Co., Falstone, Northumberland. Run over by tub.

CUNNINGHAME James - 1863 - 09/09/1863 – Age 66 - Collier. Dysart, Lord Rosslyn, Dysart, Lanarkshire. This old man went in below some top coal he was trying to take down and it fell on him.

CUNNINGHAME William - 1866 - 18/07/1866 - Boy. Wheatyfauld, Merry and Cunningham, Bath. Fell down the shaft while pushing the hutch from the wrong side.

CUPID Augustus - 1866 - 11/06/1866 - Collier. Clay Cross, William Jackson MP, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof in No.4 pit. 2 killed.

CURDIE James - 1862 - 26/06/1862 – Age 20 - Miner. Blair No.6 (ironstone), W Baird and Co., Dalry, Ayrshire. Fell from the cage while ascending the shaft.

CURLEY M - 1862 - 17/10/1862 – Age 30 - Miner. New Priestfield (ironstone), W Ward and Sons, Willenhall, Staffordshire. Skip was blown into pit shaft whilst the deceased persons, were ascending. 4 killed.

CURRAN H. - 1867 - 31/05/1867 – Age 38 - Hewer. Washington, Durham. Cage accident. 10 killed. Wife and five children.

CURRANTS John - 1864 - 09/07/1864 – Age 40 - Miner. Common No.2 (ironstone), W Baird and Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at face.

CURRIE James - 1863 - 19/11/1863 – Age 12 - Boy. Dennyhill (ironstone), Robert Addie, Denny, Stirlingshire. Breakage of one of the pit ropes by which he was struck on the pithead.

CURRIE James - 1865 - 26/12/1865 – Age 16 - Pony driver. Comrie, Forth Iron Co. Perth, Perthshire. Windless rope broke when he was descending a blind pit. The rope had been 12 months underground and was quite useless.

CURRIE John - 1866 - 27/11/1866 – Age 46 - Miner. Woodside, James Smith and Son, Hamilton, Fife. A piece of wood was being sent to him on a hand line. The knot slipped and the wood fell and struck and hit his head.

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

CURRY George - 1863 - 08/07/1863 – Age 12 - Screen Boy. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Crushed by surface waggons.

CURRY Richard - 1865 - 09/01/1865 – Age 14 - Driver. Hunwick, Lanchester and Co., Auckland, Durham. Crushed by cage descending.

CURRY Robert - 1866 - 31/10/1866 – Age 12 - Driver. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Killed by an explosion of firedamp in the Busty Bank Seam. 24 killed. Of Cross Rows.

CURSON, John - 1865 - 30/09/1865 - Collier. Overton Station, Waddell and Louden, Lanarkshire. Fall of Coal. This man had been in the pits for only two years.

CURTIC James - 1867 - 19/09/1867 – Age 17 - Haulier. Duffryn, Powell’s Duffryn Steam Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of stone. 2 killed.

CURTIS Daniel - 1866 - 16/01/1866 - Collier. Morfa Vivian and Sons, Swansea, Glamorgan. Crushed by truck on which he was riding home from the pit under an arch. (Surface).

CURTIS James - 1861 - 11/07/1861 – Age 14 - Pony driver. Thornley, Low Main, Thornley Coal Co., Hartlepool, Durham. Crushed by falling before his tub.

CURTIS Richard - 1867 - 25/07/1867 – Age 53 - Mason. Morfa, Vivian and Sons, Taibach, Glamorgan. Killed by falling from scaffold erected for building a stack at top of upcast shaft.

CURTIS Thomas - 1863 - 08/10/1863 – Age 14 - Driver. South Pelaw, EM Perkins and partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone.

CUST George - 1869 - 27/11/1869 – Age 16 - Incline Boy. Garforth, Gascoigne and Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Whilst stooping over a jenny rope when it was moving he fell and was drawn into the drum.

CUTHBERTSON, James - 1867 - 25/07/1867 - Hewer. Camerton, Cook and Co., Workington Cumberland. Run over by rolley.

CUTHBERTSON, William - 1863 - 02/09/1863 – Age 19 - Water leader. Pittington, Marchioness of Londonderry, Rainton, Durham. Crushed by return wheel in underground engine plane.

CUTLEN W - 1863 - 17/04/1863 – Age 60 - Miner. Whitwick, John Whetstone, Leicester, Leicestershire. Fall of roof.

CUTLER J. - 1860 - 28/12/1860 - Collier. The Holt, Harper and Mason, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Injuries whilst riding upon a skip on the incline plane, on the 11th.

CUTLER S - 1867 - 25/06/1867 – Age 46 - Bandsman. Titford, Long Meadow, J Hackett, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal caused by a ‘bump’ which knocked out timber settings. 2 killed.

CUTTS John - 1869 - 10/03/1869 – Age 16 - Horsedriver. Pilsley Colliery, Thomas Holdsworth, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Crushed between tub and horse.