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FLANNAGEN P. - 1863 - 28/10/1863 – Age 35 - Banksman. Tame Mill (ironstone), Johnson, and Co., Willenhall, Staffordshire. Pushed the empty skip into shaft and followed it.

FLAVEL S - 1868 - 08/05/1868 – Age 45 - Deputy. Henley, Earl of Dudley, Kingswinsford, Staffordshire. Fall of coal whilst removing Cog in a thick coal pit.

FLAVELL J. - 1861 - 01/06/1861 – Age 35 - Pikeman. Ettingshall, B. Chavasse, Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in the new mine and fire clay coals. He neglected to sprag.

FLEETWOOD Henry - 1868 - 04/02/1868 – Age 14 - Collier. Foxes Bridge, Barrett and Crawshay, Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Fell under ‘cart’ and was so seriously injured he died 16th.

FLEMING A. - 1868 - 15/06/1868 - Driver. Skellyton, Hamilton, and McCulloch, Larkhill, Lanarkshire. Hutch got off rails and knocked out a prop and the roof fell on him.

FLEMING Duncan - 1864 - 15/08/1864 – Age 34 - Roadsman. Merryton, Brand and Cochrane, Lanarkshire. Killed by a fall of roof while repairing horse road.

FLEMING John - 1865 - 23/09/1865 – Age 40 - Engineman. Balgray, Montgomery and Fleming, Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Fell down the shaft from pithead

FLETCHER A. - 1864 - 28/11/1864 – Age 13 - Collier. Netherton, Messrs. Grazenrook, Dudley, Worcestershire. Overwinding.

FLETCHER Alfred - 1869 - 19/08/1869 – Age 19 - Collier. Beeston Manor, Harding and Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

FLETCHER B. - 1863 - 17/10/1863 - Pikeman. Salt Well, Earl of Dudley, Netherton, Worcestershire. Fall of Coal in thick coal. Neglected to timber.

FLETCHER Charles - 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.

FLETCHER D. - 1863 - 26/10/1863 – Age 37 - Miner. Ladyshore, John Fletcher, Little Lever, Lancashire. Coal and earth falling in the Trencherbone mine.

FLETCHER Edward - 1869 - 17/12/1869 – Age 24 - Hanger-on. Flockton, Stansfield ad Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in pit porch. 2 killed.

FLETCHER J. - 1864 - 05/11/1864 - Engineer. Portobello (ironstone), W Ward and Sons, Willenhall Staffordshire. Suffocated by sulphuretted hydrogen and other gases. 2 killed.

FLETCHER J. - 1866 - 18/12/1866 – Age 55 - Hewer. Beamish, J Joicey and Co., Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone.

FLETCHER J.H. - 1868 - 03/06/1868 – Age 13 - Miner. Parkfield (ironstone), Parkfield Co., Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Kicked by pit horse.

FLETCHER John - 1866 - 30/04/1866 – Age 14 – Ponyputter. Moorsley North, South Hetton Coal Co., Fence Houses, Durham. Crushed by tubs.

FLETCHER John - 1867 - 15/10/1867 – Age 44 - Hewer. Broughton Moor, John Harris, Maryport, Cumberland. Fall of stone.

FLETCHER John - 1869 - 25/04/1869 – Age 15 - Collier. Nuttall, Wright and Co., Nottinghamshire. Crushed by tubs, wire rope breaking.

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

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

FLETCHER R - 1865 - 12/09/1865 - Collier. California, Kirkless Hall Coal and Iron Co., Aspull, Wigan, Lancashire. The rope breaking by slipping off the drum as they were ascending the pit. It was a Conical or compensating drum without grooves. 8 killed.

FLETCHER Robert - 1867 - 27/05/1867 – Age 12 - Horsedriver. Lumley (2nd), Earl of Durham, Fencehouses, Durham. Crushed between tubs and Coal while trying to get upon his set in motion.

FLETCHER Thomas - 1863 - 29/09/1863 – Age 30 - Miner. Plumtree, Butterley Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof.

FLETCHER Thomas - 1864 - 31/08/1864 – Age 31 Waggonrider. Bowdon Close, Joseph Pease and Partners, Willington, Durham. Crushed by waggons.

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

FLETCHER William - 1867 - 05/06/1867 – Age 16 - Trammer. Darfield Main, Darfield Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of Coal.

FLINT. John - 1867 - 08/06/1867 – Age 34 - Bottom steward. Cross Bank, Holliday Brothers, Batley, Yorkshire. Going into foul air.

FLOOK John - 1860 - 18/05/1860 – Age 18 - Collier. Coal Pit Heath Co., Coal Pit Heath, Gloucester. The rope had thoughtlessly put over the guiding wheel instead of under it which caused it to ‘ride’ the drum and then slipped off the whole circumference and this jerked him out of the tub.

FLOYD E. - 1862 - 08/03/1862 - Loader. Newbury, Lane Haines and Davis, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fall in the thick coal about 2 cwt. which was forced out of the solid by a subsidence of strata.

FLOYD William - 1867 - 11/11/1867 – Age 13 - Driver. Walbottle, Lamb and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Fall of stone.

FLYNN J. - 1868 - 01/01/1868 – Bondsman. Wall End, R Thomas, Bloxwich, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal from slip in the side of the gateroad.

FODEN J. - 1868 - 29/02/1868. Clough Hall, Kinnersley and Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Rope broke whilst ascending. 3 killed.

FOFAR James - 1864 - 10/02/1864 – Age 39 - Collier. Coltness, AG Simpson, Lanarkshire. Fall of main Coal while taking out pillars.

FOLEY E. jnr. - 1862 - 17/03/1862 – Age 23 - Collier. Lloyd’s Field, E Foley, Cradley, Worcestershire. Walked out of the chain pit and accidentally fell into pit shaft.

FOLEY J. - 1864 - 19/01/1864 – Age 42 - Hooker-on. Toll Gate, W Grove, Bilston, Staffordshire. Struck by a piece of Coal which fell down the shaft from an ascending skip whilst he was wrongfully standing in or near the bottom.

FOLEY John - 1869 - 21/07/1869 – Age 35 - Collier. Queen Colliery, Richard Evans and Sons, Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

FOLEY Peter - 1865 - 16/04/1865 – Age 22 - Miner. Ridinghead (ironstone), Eglington Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire.  By the cage getting out of the rods whilst ascending. 3 killed.

FOLEY Thomas - 1862 - 26/04/1862 – Age 12 - Doorkeeper. Murton Polka, South Hetton Coal Co., Seaham, Durham. Knocked down by a horse when opening his door.

FOLLAND William - 1861 - 26/04/1861 – Age 26 - Pitman. Hook, Harcourt Powell, Haverfordwest, Pembroke. In shaft fell off bucket. No carriage, no guides and badly fitted up shaft.

FOLLANT George - 1867 - 03/09/1867 – Age 18 - Collier. Wain Neath, Abbey Coal Co., Neath, Glamorgan. Killed by rams running over him on surface locomotive line.

FOLLOWS J. - 1865 - 15/03/1865 – Age 56 - Banksman. Goscote, JC Smith, Walsall, Staffordshire. Pushed the skip into the pit shaft and followed it.

FORD D. - 1862 - 11/10/1862 – Age 13 - Gin driver. Charity Lane, John Taylor, Bilston, Staffordshire. Fell down pit shaft. He was leaning over the pit mouth from which he had been frequently driven.

FORD Edward - 1862 - 10/12/1862 - Labourer. Myles, Sir George Suttie, Tranent, Haddington. Fell out of kettle whilst ascending the pit.

FORD Henry - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 32. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a pregnant wife.

FORD John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 27. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

FORD John - 1866 - 27/01/1866 – Age 28 - Collier. Swineridgemuir, Merry and Cunningham, Beith, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof in his working place.

FORD Peter - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 21. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a pregnant wife.

FORD R. - 1863 - 05/04/1863 – Age 28 - Pikeman. Gospel Oak, Grazebrooke and Aston, Tipton, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal thick coal whilst he was holing. A piece accidentally rated off a pillar.

FORD W. - 1865 - 07/10/1865 – Age 14 - Collier. Barbor’s Field, H Fowler and Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. Struck by a piece of timber which the charter master wrongfully threw into the skip whilst the waggon was off the pit mouth.

FORD William - 1868 - 16/12/1868 – Age 62. Heap keeper, Seaham, Earl Vane, Sunderland, Durham. Killed at apparatus.

FORESTER or FOSTER John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 15. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

FORGE Samuel - 1864 - 11/11/1864 – Age 15 - Collier. Great Western Colliery, Great Western Railway Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of Coal.

FORRAT James - 1868 - 02/06/1868 – Age 42 - Foreman Engineer. Canobie, Duke of Buccleuch, Canobie, Dumfries. Was crushed while loading machinery into a railway wagon.

FORREST Thomas - 1869 - 13/12/1869 – Age 22 – Blacksmith. Kearsley, Samuel Scowcoft, Kearsley, Lancashire. Struck by the cage being wound over the top of the engine house. The spring rod on the reversing lever broke with the catch in a notch when the steam was on and the load near the top of the shaft.

FORRESTER E. - 1861 - 11/06/1861 – Age 45 - Miner. Clay Cross, William Jackson and Partners, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Suffocated in the No.2 black shale pit in consequence of an inundation of water from old workings. Sealed him up for 22 days. 23 killed.

FORSHAW T - 1862 - 17/10/1862 – Age 20 - Miner. New Priestfield (ironstone), W Ward and Sons, Willenhall Staffordshire. Skip was blown into pit shaft whilst the deceased persons, were ascending. 4 killed.

FORSTER James - 1863 - 20/06/1863 – Age 38 – Stoneman. Shildon Lodge, Bolcklow and Vaughan Auckland, Durham. Fall of stone.

FORSTER John - 1865 - 02/10/1865 – Age 11 - Apparatus Boy. Lady Durham Colliery. Earl of Durham, Durham. Crushed by tubs from his work.

FORSTER John - 1865 - 09/06/1865 – Age 12 – Screener. Hedley Hope, Joseph Pease and Partners, Tow Law, Durham. Crushed by waggons.

FORSTER John - 1867 - 13/03/1867 – Age 20 - Hewer. Westerton, Black Boy Coal Co., Bishop Auckland, Durham. In shaft through rope breaking. Cage supposed to have fallen from surface keps and to have broken the rope by the jerk.

FORSTER John - 1869 - 18/10/1869 – Age 19 - Hewer. West Stanley, Bedlington Coal Co., Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone.

FORSTER Joseph - 1865 - 03/07/1865 – Age 14 - Banker-out. Victoria Colliery, Ord and Maddison, Witton-le-Wear Durham. Fell down shaft from surface.

FORSTER or FOSTER John - 1862 - 22/11/1862 - Hewer. Walker, NG Lambert and Co., Durham. Explosion of gas 16 killed. Of Diamond Row, left a widow and a family of 3 adult persons.

FORSTER William * - 1866 - 19/11/1866 – Age 13. Seaham No. 2 Pit, Durham.

FORSTER William - 1864 - 15/06/1864 – Age 28 – Bankrider. Laffack, J and J Johnson, St. Helens, Lancashire. Falling off a train on engine brow.

FORSYTH John - 1865 - 08/07/1865 – Age 42 – Brusher. Blackbraes, James Russel and Son, Stirling. He fired a shot with a suib it went off before he was out of danger and he was killed by the falling stones.

FORT Henry - 1866 - 26/04/1866 – Age 20 - Engine tender. Townley, Brooks and Pickup, Burnley, Lancashire. A portable steam boiler with aneing attached burst. 2 killed.

FORT J. - 1860 - 17/04/1860 – Age 19 - Hooker-on. Brotherod, H.H. Fishwick and Co., Rochdale, Lancashire. Fall of roof in the level, Mountain mine.

FOSTER David - 1860 - 24/08/1860 – Age 30 - Pikeman. Newbury Lane, Haines and Davis, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Thick coal rated off.

FOSTER G. - 1860 - 26/01/1860 – Age 24 - Hanger-on. Britain, Butterley Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. A piece of Coal falling down the shaft.

FOSTER Henry - 1869 - 15/11/1869 - Drawer. Low Hall, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 27 killed.

FOSTER J. - 1860 - 18/09/1860 – Age 26 - Loader. Kimberley, T. North, Nottinghamshire. Falling into the sump which is only 9 feet deep.

FOSTER J. - 1860 - 23/02/1860 - Collier. Chell, R. Beswick, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Breakage of rope. 3 killed.

FOSTER J. - 1867 - 28/02/1867 – Age 45 - Hooker-on. Hednesford, Hednesford Colliery Co., Cannock Staffordshire. Whilst improperly ascending with some rails, one caught under the stays which snapped the band chain precipitating him to the bottom of the shaft.

FOSTER John - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 15. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed.

FOSTER John - 1867 - 30/06/1867 - Collier. St. Helens, Messrs. Pilkington, St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

FOSTER Joseph - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 18. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. He was an orphan who lived with his aunt.

FOSTER Martin - 1867 - 31/12/1867 – Age 15 - Pony Putter. Seaton Burn, J Bowes and Partners, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Caught by tubs and timber.

FOSTER or FORESTER John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 15. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

FOSTER or FORESTER Joseph - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 19. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

FOSTER or FORSTER John - 1862 22/11/1862 - Hewer. Walker NG Lambert and Co., Durham. Explosion of gas 16 killed. Of Diamond Row, left a widow and a family of 3 adult persons.

FOSTER Richard - 1861 - 27/07/1861 – Age 25 - Collier. Peasley Cross, Bournes and Robinson, St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

FOSTER T. - 1866 - 12/07/1866 – Age 22 - Pikeman. Wednesbury, Oak P Williams and Sons, Tipton, Staffordshire. He was too impatient to wait for the runner (or pit waggon) to be pushed over the shaft, jumped out of skip and fell down the shaft.

FOSTER T. - 1868 - 18/03/1868 – Age 28 - Miner. Chatterley (ironstone), Chatterley Co., Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fell down staple underground.

FOSTER Thomas - 1865 - 05/05/1865 – Age 43 – Bricklayer. 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.

FOSTER Thomas - 1869 - 21/07/1869 – Age 36 - Collier. Queen Colliery, Richard Evans and Sons, Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

FOSTER W. - 1864 - 29/04/1864 – Age 13 - Miner. Herbert’s Park (ironstone), D Jones Darlaston, Staffordshire. Accidental explosion of firedamp in a place where gas was unknown before.

FOSTER William - 1866 - 28/02/1866 – Age 13 - Horsedriver. Blackeyhurst, Samuel Stock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

FOSTER William - 1868 - 02/11/1868 – Age 42 - Waggoner. Nut Grove, James Radley, St. Helens, Lancashire. Suffocation by noxious vapours produced by the mine being on fire. 3 killed.

FOSTER William - 1868 - 20/02/1868 – Age 40 - Collier. Swannington, William Worsick, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Run over on underground incline.