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DEAN William - 1867 - 08/08/1867 - Age 18 - Putter. Seaton Burn J Bowes and Partners Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Caught by set of tubs.

DEARDEN James - 1862 - 28/11/1862 - Age 32 - Collier. New Boston Richard Evans and Co., Haydock Lancashire. Whilst stepping into the cage at the shaft bottom.

DEARDEN John - 1869 - 01/11/1869 - Age 60 - Collier. Dunkirk, Dunkirk Co., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Fall of Coal. Died from injuries received by portion of a roof having accidentally falling upon him in Dewsnap Coal pit.

DEARDEN William - 1868 - 01/05/1868 - Age 46 - Miner. Kearsley Samuel Scowcroft Kearsley Lancashire. Coal falling off to a back as he was beginning a new place at the side of a level.

DEARDEN William - 1868 - 26/12/1868 - Age 38 - Collier. Queen, Richard Evans and Sons Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas 26 killed.

DEARDEN William - 1868 - 25/11/1868. Hindley, Green John Scowcroft and Co., Hindley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp. 62 killed.

DEELEY W. - 1864 - 11/03/1864 - Age 20 - Collier. Springfield Rowley and Co., Oldbury, Worcestershire. Walked out of the hovel with a light in his hand for two workmen that were about to descend and fell into the pit shaft.

DEEMING John - 1862 - 17/04/1862. Gilderstone Messrs. Holiday Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

DEENE T. - 1861 - 25/07/1861 - Age 36 - Banksman. Speedwell, R Banow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Falling down the shaft.

DEFTY John - 1868 - 07/10/1868 - Age 13 - Pony Driver. Old Durham. Earl Vane Durham. Crushed by empty tubs on engine plane.

DELASAY John - 1868 - 02/11/1868 - Age 28 Master- Sinker. Black Lane, Rylands and Sons Radcliffe, Lancashire. The brickwork of the shaft which they had put in gave way. They were aware that the bottom had become loosened by two shots and they had just gone down to make an examination. The rings above ought to have been plugged underneath, or to have rested on solid ground at the back part. 3 killed.

DELHOLM Thomas - 1869 - 23/07/1869 - Age 25 - Labourer. Niddrie John Grieve Edinburgh Mid Lothian. Killed on incline. Mistake of signals.

DEMPSEY Patrick - 1867 - 09/07/1867 - Age 46 - Collier. Glorrat John Kirk Campsie Fall of roof.

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

DENNETT William - 1866 - 20/12/1866 - Age 14 - Horsedriver. Hindley, John Scowcroft and Co., Ltd Wigan, Lancashire. Knocked down by a horse and run over in the Arley mine.

DENNING George - 1869 - 01/05/1869 - Age 22 - Collier. Vobster, Vobster, and Mells Co., Vobster, Somerset. Fall of Coal in breach pit. Concealed slip. Left a widow who received £5 from the fund.

DENNING John - 1864 - 25/03/1864 - Age 30 - Collier. Vobster, S Steeds and Co., Somerset. Dropped from the top branch in the shaft to the bottom and as nobody was with him at the time it has never been ascertained what caused him to fall.

DENNIS Francis - 1869 - 26/06/1869 - Age 55 - Collier. Oakthorpe Countess of Loudon Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Run over. Chain breaking on incline.

DENNIS G. - 1865 - 03/08/1865 - Age 15 - Boy. Cinderhill, Cinderhill Co., Longton, Staffordshire. Struck by the arm of a gin.

DENNIS George - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Oaks, Messrs. Firth, Bamber and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosions of gas. The total number of victims was 334 by the first explosion of the 12th December 1866 and 26 by the second explosion the following day. Total 360. Seventy five bodies were recovered prior to the shafts being closed forty five were recovered during the first twelve months after the shaft was reopened and seventy during the past years making the total 190. This deducted from 360 leaves 17 bodies still in the Colliery. It is remarkable that all but two have been identified.

DENNIS J. - 1861 - 28/10/1861 - Age 49 Stallman. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Colliery Co. Walsall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp on 16th. Died this day.

DENNIS James - 1868 - 15/05/1868 - Age 13. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Lichfield, Staffordshire. Whilst descending the wire rope snapped. 6 killed.

DENNIS John - 1869 - 14/04/1869 - Age 60 - Collier. Moira Countess of Loudon Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Fall of Coal.

DENNIS Joseph - 1864 - 07/04/1864. Cadley Hill Hall and Boardman Burton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

DENNIS Thomas - 1864 - 07/03/1864 - Age 14 - Pony driver. High Park Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Explosion of gas. Nov. - 1863.

DENNIS William - 1868 - 15/05/1868 - Age 18. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Lichfield, Staffordshire. Whilst descending the wire rope snapped. 6 killed.

DENNISON, John - 1864 - 27/01/1864 - Collier. Nackerty, Provanhall Coal Co., Lanarkshire. About 20 yds of Pyotshaw. Coal fell unexpectedly on him while working at the face.

DENT Charles - 1861 - 02/05/1861 - Age 23 - Hewer. Whitwell A J.M. Ogden Durham. Durham. Fall of stone.

DENT William - 1861 - 04/04/1861 - Age 12 - Horsedriver. Elemore South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Crushed by tubs at the side of the way.

DENTON William - 1867 - 01/07/1867 Screener. High Royd and Elsecar Hall, and Stones Barnsley, Yorkshire. Run over by waggons.

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

DERBYSHIRE. James - 1865 - 21/08/1865 - Age 12 - Hooker-on. Tyldesley Green, Holland and Co., Tyldesley Lancashire. Roof falling.

DERMONT John - 1868 - 05/10/1868 - Age 16 - Collier. Ince Hall Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Ince, Wigan, Wigan, Fall of roof.

DERRICOTT J. - 1861 - 22/02/1861 - Pikeman. Willenhall W.M. Sparrow Willenhall Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in the new mine and fireclay Coals brought about by his own neglect not having left a spurn in the cutting.

DERROCH James - 1865 - 23/02/1865 - Age 16 - Pony driver. Maidenbank Eglinton Iron Co., Muirkirk Ayrshire.  Fell off a race of loaded hutches and was run over by them.

DEUXBURY Squire - 1862 - 10/12/1862. Wortley (ironstone), Farnley Iron Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Crushed by steam engine.

DEVELINE Patrick. - 1869 - 23/12/1869 - Age 26 - Miner. Kenmuir (ironstone), Wilsons, ad Co., Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

DEVEY G - 1864 - 08/04/1864 - Age 39 - Hooker-on. Wallows Earl of Dudley, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire. Injured by a piece of clod which fell from an ascending skip whilst he was wrongfully standing at the bottom on the 2nd. Died this day.

DEVINE James - 1869 - 21/07/1869 - Age 16 - Pony driver. Queen, Richard Evans and Sons Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

DEVON Thomas - 1866 - 08/12/1866 - Age 35 - Sinker. Ferndale, David Davies and Sons Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fell down shaft while walling it.

DEWER P. - 1867 - 02/10/1867 - Age 15 - Sinker. Cleland WS Dixon Motherwell Lanarkshire. Fall of Coal.

DEWERY John - 1860 - 02/03/1860 - Deputy overman. Burradon, Burradon, Durham. Explosion of gas. 76 killed. Left a large family.

DEWES S. - 1862 - 14/05/1862 - Age 34 - Miner. Victoria, J Throughton Coventry Warwick Fall of Coal.

DEWHURST D. - 1867 - 16/01/1867. Combs Captain Ingham Mirfield Yorkshire. Run over by Coal waggon.

DEWHURST E. - 1862 - 16/08/1862 - Age 36 - Miner. Baxenden Hargreaves, Ashworth and Co., Accrington, Lancashire. Fall of roof when removing props in the Victoria, pit.

DEWICK Edward - 1862 - 02/06/1862. Ashton France and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine. 2 killed.

DEWRY John * - 1860 - 02/03/1860. Burradon, Durham.

DEWSBURY J. - 1865 - 26/04/1865 - Age 21 - Pikeman. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp on the 8th. Died this day. 2 killed.

DEWSBURY R. - 1865 - 26/04/1865 - Age 19 - Pikeman. Cannock Chase Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp on the 8th. Died 6th May. 2 killed.

DIAMON John - 1864 - 21/06/1864 36 - Mason. Woodfield Blockow and Vaughan Crook, Durham. Fall of stone.

DIBB Thomas - 1865 - 09/01/1865. Whitwood Briggs and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Falling down the shaft.

DICCONSON, David - 1866 - 06/07/1866. Tunneller Bickershaw Ackers, Whitley and Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

DICK Thomas - 1861 - 17/10/1861 - Age 33 - Collier. Govan William S Dixon Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Fall fo roof.

DICKENSON, James - 1861 - 18/07/1861 - Age 17 - Collier. Platt Lane, Henry Wright Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas on the 10th.

DICKENSON, William - 1864 - 18/06/1864 - Boy. Sharlston Baines and Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Bursting of a steam boiler above ground. 3 killed.

DICKIE Adam - 1868 - 14/09/1868 - Age 23 - Engineman. North Boig Lanemark Coal Co., North Cumnock, Ayrshire.  Found crushed under the crank of the pumping shaft.

DICKINSON, Henry - 1867 - 06/02/1867 - Age 36- Sinker. Anderton Hall, Dewhurst Hoyles and Smethurst, Blackrod Lancashire. Suffocated by powder smoke and possibly a little other gas on descending the sinking pit soon after firing a shot.

DICKINSON, Hugh - 1864 - 15/11/1864 v30 - Hewer. Nettlesworth Elliot and Johansson Chester-le-Street, Durham. Killed by tub falling down shaft on him.

DICKINSON, Robert - 1860 - 16/09/1860 - Age 34 - Hewer. South Hetton, Forster, Burrell and Co. Sunderland, Durham. Crushed in shaft by cage.

DICKINSON, Thomas - 1865 - 07/12/1865. Whitwood Briggs and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine.

DICKINSON, Thomas - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Oaks, Messrs. Firth, Bamber and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosions of gas. The total number of victims was 334 by the first explosion of the 12th December 1866 and 26 by the second explosion the following day. Total 360. Seventy five bodies were recovered prior to the shafts being closed forty five were recovered during the first twelve months after the shaft was reopened and seventy during the past years making the total 190. This deducted from 360 leaves 17 bodies still in the Colliery. It is remarkable that all but two have been identified.

DICKSON, George - 1868 - 20/04/1868 - Age 47- Sinker. West Yorkshire. Manston Coal Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Sheeting blown out of tubbing in which he was wedging on a scaffold in the shaft and so alarmed him that he stepped backwards and fell down the shaft.

DICKSON, Hugh - 1869 - 15/07/1869 - Collier. Wishaw, Wishaw, Iron Co. Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

DICKSON, James - 1868 - 22/09/1868 - Age 28 Brusher. Dalhar Co., No.2 Dalmellington Iron Co., Dalmellington, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof while engaged taking it down.

DICKSON, Peter - 1869 - 15/11/1869 - Collier. Low Hall Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 27 killed.

DIDCOTE J. - 1868 - 29/01/1868 - Sinker. Whitehall J Kendrick West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Whilst doing repairs in the pumping pit a setting of brickwork slipped out and precipitated him down the shaft.

DILKE J. - 1867 - 11/11/1867 - Collier. Pelsall Hall Pelsall Hall Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Crushed by skip.

DILLON Daniel - 1865 - 02/05/1865 - Age 40 - Miner. Inkerman (ironstone), Merry and Cunningham Johnstone, Renfrew. Explosion of gunpowder while stemming a shot. 2 killed.

DIMMOCK W. - 1867 - 10/01/1867 - Age 35 - Pikeman. Salt Well Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of white Coal in thick coal pit No.22.

DINGLE J. - 1865 - 23/08/1865 - Age 19 - Bandsman. Withymore WH Dawes Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. A fall of patchells in lower thick coal workings in ‘bolt-hole’.

DINGSDALE Henry - 1864 - 01/04/1864 - Age 29 - Fireman. Denton Lane, Chamber Colliery Co., Hollinwood, Lancashire. Chain breaking as he was riding down the incline.

DINNING Joseph - 1865 - 06/07/1865 - Age 13 - Collier. Bwllfa, Bwllfa Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of stone.

DINSDALE John - 1867 - 05/03/1867 - Age 34 - Hewer. Tanfield Lee Joicey and Co., Gateshead Durham. Fall of Coal.

DINSLEY Matthew - 1861 - 02/01/1861. Oakenshaw Low Moor Iron Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

DISKIN Patrick - 1869 - 21/07/1869 - Age 28 - Collier. Queen, Richard Evans and Sons Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

DISKIN Thomas - 1869 - 21/07/1869 - Age 23 - Collier. Queen, Richard Evans and Sons Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

DITCHBURN George - 1869 - 21/07/1869 - Age 26 Waggon rider. Team WW Burdon, Gateshead, Durham. Crushed by tubs.

DIVETT John - 1864 - 07/10/1864 - Collier. Eckington J and G Wells Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fell into sump.

DIVINE Bernard - 1863 - 20/11/1863 - Age 22 - Collier. Bredisholm Provanhall Coal Co., Baillieston, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof in Pyotshaw workings. No props up.

DIVINE G. - 1861 - 09/12/1861 - Age 15 - Collier. Rough Hay Addenbrooke and Co. Darlaston, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in the new mine and fireclay coals from a slip not seen until after the fall.

DIX William - 1869 - 01/09/1869 - Age 49 - Collier. Black Vein Thomas William Rhodes Risca, Monmouth. Fall of Coal in big vein Coal.

DIXON Edward Marshall * - 1864 - 06/07/1864 - Age 38. New Delaval, Durham.

DIXON James - 1866 - 31/10/1866 - Age 19 - Hewer. Pelton Lord Dunsay and Partners Chester-le-Street, Durham. Killed by an explosion of firedamp in the Busty Bank Seam. 24 killed, Married.

DIXON Joseph - 1865 - 19/05/1865 - Age 43 - Hewer. Pelton Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Crushed by tubs in engine plane.

DIXON Nathan - 1867 - 13/08/1867 - Age 15 - Pony driver. Woodhouse Close Sir CF Maclean Bishop Auckland, Durham. Fall of roof by tubs drawing timber when he was out of his duty driving a - Pony which he was not employed to drive.

DIXON Robert - 1862 - 16/01/1862 - Age 12. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

DIXON Robert - 1867 08/08/1867 - Age 54 - Screener. Seaton Earl Vane Bishop Auckland, Durham. Run over by set of tubs.

DIXON Robert - 1867 - 27/09/1867 - Age 18 - Labourer. Cambois Straker and Co., Blyth Northumberland. Run over by waggons.

DIXON Thomas - 1860 - 20/01/1860. Stanley Hudson, and Co. Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

DIXON Thomas - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Oaks, Messrs. Firth, Bamber and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosions of gas. The total number of victims was 334 by the first explosion of the 12th December 1866 and 26 by the second explosion the following day. Total 360. Seventy five bodies were recovered prior to the shafts being closed forty five were recovered during the first twelve months after the shaft was reopened and seventy during the past years making the total 190. This deducted from 360 leaves 17 bodies still in the Colliery. It is remarkable that all but two have been identified.

DIXON Thomas - 1868 - 23/09/1868 - Age 49 - Shifter. Crosby Mulcaster and Co., Maryport, Cumberland. Crushed by tub.

DIXON William - 1861 - 15/02/1861 - Boy. Rock Well Smith and Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Explosion of gunpowder in the mine.

DIXON William - 1862 - 17/01/1862 - Age 27. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife and two children.

DIXON William - 1862 - 17/01/1862 - Age 34. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. He was a single man but he had a Son, who lived in Corbridge.

DIXON William - 1867 - 19/09/1867 - Age 15 - Driver. Coxlodge Joshua Bower Newcastle-on-Tyne Northumberland. Fell off tub.

DOBBS George - 1864 - 21/01/1864 - Age 21 - Collier. Llanharry GA Brain Llantrissant Glamorgan. Fall of scaffold in shaft.

DOBBS George - 1868 - 17/09/1868 - Age 40 - Collier. Duck Goold and Co., Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Fall of piece of top to the Colliery of a pair of timbers and this wooden bar or Collar struck him dead. There ought to have been plenty of ‘lagging’ above the timbering.

DOBSON, John - 1868 - 04/06/1868 - Age 21 - Collier. Waterloo Main J Leather, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

DOBSON, William - 1866 - 13/12/1866. Oaks, Messrs. Firth, Bamber and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosions of gas. The total number of victims was 334 by the first explosion of the 12th December 1866 and 26 by the second explosion the following day. Total 360. Seventy five bodies were recovered prior to the shafts being closed forty five were recovered during the first twelve months after the shaft was reopened and seventy during the past years making the total 190. This deducted from 360 leaves 17 bodies still in the Colliery. It is remarkable that all but two have been identified.

DOCHERTY Michael - 1863 - 12/02/1863 - Age 63 - Collier. Nitshill G and T Coates, Hurlet, Lanarkshire. Fall of Coal.

DOCHERTY P - 1868 - 24/09/1868 - Age 60 - Screener. Usworth George Elliot and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Crushed by waggons.

DOCHERTY Philip - 1862 - 08/04/1862 - Collier. Jerviston, Wilsons and Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

DOCHERTY William - 1866 - 10/02/1866 - Age 70 - Furnaceman. Greenfield Hamilton Coal Co., Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He had fallen from the main Coal where he worked to the splint Coal and his body was found there.

DODD John - 1869 - 03/05/1869 - Collier. Ewloe Hall Ewloe Hall Colliery Co., Buckley Flint. Explosion of 25lbs gunpowder. 2 killed.

DODD Joseph - 1862 - 29/01/1862 - Collier. Ruabon, Ruabon, Coal Co., Ruabon, Flint. Explosion of gas.

DODD Samuel - 1860 - 27/04/1860 - Age 41 - Chartermaster. Nimmings Didd and Southam Willenhall Staffordshire. Pushing empty skip to the mouth of shaft it went with a run and pulled him in with it.

DODD William - 1862 - 13/05/1862 - Age 25 - Hewer. Bitchburn Strakers and Love, Crook, Durham. Crushed by top Coal. 3 killed.

DODDS John - 1865 - 03/06/1865 - Age 59 - Hewer. Graghead William Hedley, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone in broken.

DODDS Thomas (injured) - 1864 - 09/08/1864 - Hewer. Seghill Laycock and Co., Seghill Northumberland. Explosion of gas. 6 killed.

DODDS Thomas - 1865 - 01/03/1865 - Age 70 Wasteman. Eppleton South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Crushed by tubs in engine plane.

DODDS William - 1861 - 26/08/1861 - Age 20 - Hewer. Hetton, South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Fell into apparatus hole from pit heap.

DODSWORTH James - 1866 - 29/08/1866 - Age 50 Screenman. Shincliffe Joseph Love and Co., Durham. Crushed by waggons.

DOHERTY Ime - 1868 - 07/02/1868 - Collier. High Brooks Mercer and Evans, Wigan, Lancashire. An exploded shot.

DOLAN P - 1864 - 10/12/1864 - Age 25 - Labourer. Ward (ironstone), Ward Colliery Co., Bloxwich, Staffordshire. Fall of calcined ironstone upon the surface of the Colliery.

DOLLOUGHAN Hugh - 1860 - 07/07/1860 - Collier. Carfin William Dixon, Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone from roof by removing a prop.

DONALD John - 1868 - 24/12/1868 - Age 45 - Hewer. Crosby Mulcaster and Co., Maryport, Cumberland. Fall of top Coal.

DONALDSON, E. - 1866 - 03/07/1866 - Age 52 - Pikeman. Bloxwich, Bloxwich, Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp 30th June. Died this day.

DONALLY James - 1863 - 26/03/1863 - Age 27 - Drawer. Dixton No.19 (ironstone), William Baird and Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof in drawing road.

DONALLY or DONALTY David - 1861 - 18/07/1861 - Age 45 - Hewer. Trimdon T. Wood and Co., Hartlepool, Durham. Fall of Coal. Taking off side.