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SADDINGTON Thomas - 1867 - 30/01/1867 – Age 60 – Horsekeeper. Coleorton, Worswick and Walker, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Crushed by carriage in shaft.

SADDLER John – 1867 - 02/09/1867 – Age 16 - Collier. Langton, Coke and Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of coal.

SADLER James - 1868 - 24/09/1868 – Age 16 - Putter. Washington, Bell Kimpster and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Crushed by cage.

SADLER Samuel - 1865 - 14/11/1865. Brightside, Unwin and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

SAGAR James - 1866 - 26/04/1866 – Age 37 - Miner. Townley, Brooks and Pickup, Burnley, Lancashire. A portable steam boiler with aneing attached burst. 2 killed.

SAGE George - 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.

SAGE George - 1864 - 15/03/1864 – Age 30 - Miner. New Hollinwood, Staveley Iron and Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

SAGE Henry - 1863 - 03/12/1863 – Age 17 - Collier. No.8 Tredegar Co., Tredegar, Monmouth. Heavy fall of coal whilst he was filling a tram. The man with whom he was working was just then holeing under the coal and heard it beginning to come and warned him back but it caught him and inflicted such injuries that he died a few hours after.

SAGE Isaac - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 32. 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.

SAGE John - 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.

SAGE William - 1864 - 06/02/1864 – Age 21 - Collier. Kingswood Deep, Kingswood Coal Co., Kingswood, Gloucester. Near the bottom of the main pit (410 yards deep) is a smaller one called a ‘Tip’ (40 yards still deeper) at which he was waiting at the bottom seated on a cross bar ready to be drawn up, when a piece of fireclay fell from near the top and killed him.

SALES George - 1866 - 16/10/1866 - Collier. Speedwell, Staveley Iron and Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of bind.

SALMON Daniel - 1860 - 17/07/1860 – Age 35 - Miner. Adderley Green, Stirrup and Pye, Longton, Staffordshire. A rail fell down the shaft caught about 30 yards from the bottom and upset the tub with deceased. 5 killed.

SALMON T. - 1869 - 06/08/1869 – Age 28 - Engineer. Woodshutts, Woodshutts Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fell out of rope in pumping pit.

SALSBURGH J. - 1869 - 28/09/1869 – Age 52 Pitheadman Benahr Robert Addie and Sons, Whitburn, West Lothian, Ran hutch into wrong side of shaft and fell after it.

SALT Samuel - 1864 - 30/05/1864 – Age 13 - Boy. Glascote, Firmstone and Co., Tamworth, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

SALTER R. - 1863 - 28/05/1863 – Age 50 - Sinker. Bromford, Johnson and Guy, Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fell out of the bowk down the shaft 8 yards deep. He was seized with a fit to which it appeared he was subject.

SAMPSON, William - 1864 - 05/08/1864 – Age 45 - Sinker. Auchinbee No. 1 (ironstone), W Baird, Kilsyth, Stirling. Fell out of the sinking kettle.

SAMSON, Patrick - 1864 - 25/05/1864 – Age 34 - Sinker. Coney Park, John Barr, Kilsyth, Stirling. A piece of wood falling on him in the shaft.

SAMSON, William - 1862 - 08/05/1862 – Age 33 - Engineman. Bank Colliery, Bank Coal Co., New Cumnock, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SAMUEL David - 1869 - 10/06/1869 – Age 59. Ferndale, David Davies and Sons, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas from a blower. 53 killed.

SAMUEL Evan - 1867 - 08/11/1867 – Age 21. Ferndale, David Davies and Son, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas through one of the deceased taking the top off his lamp and exposing a naked light. 178 killed.

SAMUEL George - 1861 - 04/02/1861 – Age 34 - Collier. Gartgill, William Baird and Co., Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SAMUEL John - 1860 - 15/08/1860 – Age 19. Railway Colliery, Executors of John Darlington, Chorley, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SAMUEL Philip - 1864 - 07/10/1864 – Age 12 - Collier. Plymouth, Fothergill and Co., Merthyr, Glamorgan. Fall of Coal.

SAMUEL Simeon - 1866 - 10/10/1866 – Age 46 – Overman. Abercwmboi, David Davies and Sons, Aberdare, Glamorgan. Killed by crossing bottom of shaft. Should have crossed without going across bottom of shaft.

SAMUEL Thomas - 1860 - 02/10/1860 – Age 21 - Collier. Aberaman, David Williams, Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of carriage in shaft.

SAMUEL Thomas - 1862 - 05/05/1862 – Age 14 - Haulier. Bryngwyn, Simms Neville and Co., Llanelly, Carmarthen. Crushed under cradle, bottom of shaft.

SAMUEL William - 1867 - 21/02/1867 - Collier. Old Hollingwood, Staveley Co. Ltd., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of Coal.

SANDBROOK Samuel - 1865 - 30/07/1865 - Collier. West Stavely Colliery, West Stavely Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of Coal.

SANDERS Evan - 1869 - 22/04/1869 – Age 64 - Hewer. Cramlington Lamb, Potter and Co., Newcastle, Northumberland. Riding on coal tubs on Rolley-way.

SANDERS P. - 1860 - 16/10/1860 – Age 24 - Miner. Swanwick, A.P. Morewood, Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of Coal.

SANDERS W. - 1863 - 09/01/1863 – Age 15 - Collier. Gawn, W Mills and Son, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fell down pit shaft. Walked into pit.

SANDERS William - 1865 - 23/11/1865 - Collier. Pewfall, Richard Evans and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Crushed by trains and tubs below ground.

SANDERSON, James - 1861 - 30/12/1861 – Age 12 - Horse Driver. Shotton, Haswell Coal Co., Hartlepool, Durham. Crushed by tubs against side of way.

SANDERSON, Ralph (injured) - 1866 - 12/09/1866. Hoddleston, Joseph Place, Over Darwen, Lancashire. Three men were cleaning up their pillars when a large quantity of shale fell upon them. They had previously tried the roof, and the man Adcroft who was the foreman of the Company pronounced it safe and directed the men to work. About an hour later the fall took place, and the consequences were George Adcroft was killed and John Taylor was taken out presumed dead. Sanderson, had a narrow escape. A fellow workman near where the accident happened rescued Taylor by breathing into his mouth and other means. The injuries to Taylor are a broken thigh, left knee dislocated and scalp wounds". (Blackburn Times).

SANDERSON, William - 1863 02/07/1863 49 - Collier. Ince Hall Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SANDFORTH John - 1864 - 01/08/1864 - Labourer. Ince Hall, Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SANDILANDS or SUNDERLAND, Thomas - 1860 - 20/12/1860 – Age 32 - Shifter Minor. Pit South Hetton Coal Co. Hetton, Durham. Explosion of gas supposed to have been generated from the coals of the engine or boiler fire and not from gas generated in the workings of the mine. 22 killed.

SANDON S. - 1861 - 04/09/1861 – Age 14 - Trammer. Cotmanhay, Barber Walker and Co., Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Fall of Coal.

SANDYFORD John - 1867 - 11/09/1867 – Age 51 - Labourer. Ringley Fold, Knowles and Stott, Stoneclough, Lancashire. Roof falling in the Trencherbone mine.

SANT T - 1867 - 19/06/1867 – Age 14 - Collier. Black Heath, WH Dawes, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Fall of bat in thick coal workings.

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

SARGENT George - 1864 - 08/08/1864 – Age 26 - Collier. Earlswood, George Tissington, Briton Ferry. Glamorgan. Fall of stone from roof.

SATCHWELL T. - 1869 - 26/08/1869 – Age 25 – Bondsman. Spring Vale, T Bantock and Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. Whilst preparing to stand a prop the coal over his head suddenly fell, killing him on the spot.

SAUL George - 1860 - 23/03/1860 – Age 18 - Loader. Long Meadow, Joseph Hackett, Titford, Staffordshire. Fall of top slipper roofs and blackbat in thick coal. The stratification in this mine is treacherous and the thick coal should be worked in twice. 2 killed.

SAUNDERS Benjamin - 1861 - 30/05/1861 – Age 57 - Hewer. Lumley, 2nd. Earl of Durham, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Blasting coal by gunpowder.

SAUNDERS Benjamin - 1867 - 08/11/1867 – Age 20. Ferndale, David Davies and Son, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas through one of the deceased taking the top off his lamp and exposing a naked light. 178 killed.

SAUNDERS Isaac - 1860 - 01/12/1860 – Age 42. 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.

SAUNDERS John - 1866 - 23/01/1866 – Age 30 - Collier. Park Lane, Mercer and Evans, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 30 killed.

SAUNDERS Llewellyn - 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.

SAUNDERS Samuel - 1867 - 11/03/1867 – Age 25 - Drawer. Pewfall, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp.

SAWYER R - 1866 - 30/04/1866 – Age 31 - Collier. Botteslow, Pratt and Crewe, Hanley, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

SAXON Joseph - 1863 - 06/06/1863 – Age 36 - Miner. Lowside, William Blackburne and Co., Oldham, Lancashire. Roof falling in Higher Bent mine. It fell off to the break such as is usually found at the side of a level. 2 killed.

SAYCE Isaac - 1861 - 07/09/1861 – Age 21 - Collier. Drift, Tredegar Iron Co., Tredegar, Monmouth. Fall of coal and rubbish from side of his stall.

SCARFIELD or SCURFIELD George - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 51. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

SCARLE William - 1866 - 25/06/1866 - Collier. Clay Cross, William Jackson MP, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof (Tupton pit).

SCARR Thomas - 1868 - 08/06/1868 - Fireman. Kelloe East, South Hetton Coal Co., Coxhoe, Durham. Boiler explosion. 2 killed.

SCARRETT W. - 1861 - 02/03/1861 - Miner. Fenton Park, Lawton and Co. Stoke, Staffordshire. Fell from the scaffold.

SCARTH Charles - 1867 - 20/05/1867 – Age 49 - Hewer. Kepier, John Thwaites, Durham. Fall of stone.

SCARTH William - 1868 - 15/01/1868 – Age 16 - Putter. Kepier, John Thwaites, Durham. Fall of stone. A Putter who had exchanged work with a Hewer.

SCHIMPF George - 1860 - 02/03/1860. Burradon Colliery, Burradon, Durham. Explosion of gas. 76 killed. Left a wife and 2 or 3 children.

SCHOFIELD James - 1860 - 21/05/1860. Rothwell Haigh, Messrs. Charlesworth, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine.

SCHOFIELD John - 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.

SCHOFIELD Joseph - 1862 - 21/11/1862 - Boy. Churwell, William Ward, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

SCHOFIELD S. - 1861 - 04/08/1861 – Age 46 - Collier. Rhodes Bank, Leeses Jones and Co., Oldham, Lancashire. Falling out of a sinking bucket in a shaft underground. He was faint apparently from firedamp.

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

SCHOFIELD William - 1863 - 03/07/1863 – Age 22 - Miner. Wharton, Frances Charlton, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp. It fired as they were entering in the morning no examination having been made. Proceedings against the underlooker’s assistant but by a majority he was acquitted. 2 killed.

SCHOLES John - 1865 - 06/10/1865 – Age 44 – Dayman. Hopwood Wild, Haigh and Co., Manchester, Lancashire. Roof falling while he was undermining the coal.

SCHOLES John - 1869 - 10/09/1869 – Age 27 - Miner. Rose Hill, Samuel Scowcroft, Bolton, Lancashire. Coal falling.

SCHOLEY William - 1867 - 14/11/1867 – Age 16 – Hurrier. Mount Osborne, William Day, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of stone. 2 killed.

SCHONELD 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.

SCOBBIE Jamas - 1866 - 15/06/1866 – Age 40 - Collier. Springside, Archibald Kenneth, Dreghorn, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof at face.

SCOBIE Alexander - 1862 - 20/03/1862 - Collier. Redding, Redding Colliery Co., Falkirk, Stirling. Fall of roof at the face.

SCORER Thomas - 1860 - 10/10/1860 – Age 13 – Rolleydriver. Byers Green, R.W. Jackson, Auckland, Durham. Run over by tubs of coal.

SCOTSON, James - 1864 - 17/05/1864 - Collier. Kirkless Hall, Kirkless Hall Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of Coal.

SCOTT Fenwick - 1868 - 08/01/1868 – Age 50 - Rolley-way man. Brooms Drift, Consett Iron Co., Consett Durham. Crushed by the 1st of a pony set of two full tubs laying against timber. Switches wrong.

SCOTT George - 1864 - 23/03/1864 – Age 25 - Hewer. Hetton, South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Fall of stone.

SCOTT Henry - 1866 - 02/06/1866 – Age 13 - Collier. Greasley Wood Limited Co., Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Explosion of gas.

SCOTT J - 1868 - 16/10/1868 – Age 21 - Collier. Silverdale Colliery, Silverdale Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

SCOTT James - 1865 - 29/03/1865 – Age 28 - Collier. Milnwood, John Christie, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 2 killed.

SCOTT John - 1863 - 24/08/1863 – Age 30 - Miner. Engine (ironstone), Ebbw Vale Co., Sirhowy, Monmouth. Premature explosion of charge. Should have used proper tools.

SCOTT John - 1864 - 04/07/1864 – Age 38 - Miner. Knightswood No.9 (ironstone), Wilsons and Co., Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SCOTT John - 1865 - 17/08/1865 – Age 13 Door Boy. Clay Cross, William Jackson and Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Crushed by trams.

SCOTT John - 1869 - 20/09/1869 – Age 15 - Horsedriver. Seaton Delaval, Lamb Burdon and Co., Newcastle, Northumberland. Breaking of apparatus chain.

SCOTT Joseph - 1860 - 09/04/1860 – Age 17 - Putter. Thornley, T. Wood and Co., Hartlepool, Durham. Fall of roof.

SCOTT Joseph - 1860 - 20/12/1860 – Age 50 - Shifter. Hetton, Walter Scott Ltd., Durham. Explosion of gases supposed to have been generated from the coals on an engine plane, or boiler fire and not from gases generated in the workings of the mine.

SCOTT Joseph - 1860 - 20/12/1860 – Age 50 - Shifter. Minor Pit, South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Explosion of gas supposed to have been generated from the coals of the engine or boiler fire and not from gas generated in the workings of the mine. 22 killed.

SCOTT R. - 1864 - 29/08/1864 – Age 44 - Collier. Wemyss, HE Wemyss, Fife. Fall of Coal.

SCOTT W. - 1865 - 25/02/1865 - Collier. Bournehill, Nock and Co., Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Accidental fall of coal in thick coal rib and pillar pit from a slip in the roof.

SCOTT William - 1865 - 14/06/1865 - Collier. Victoria Colliery, Wishaw Iron Co., Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Premature explosion of gunpowder.

SCOTT William - 1865 - 18/01/1865 – Age 12 - Horse Driver. Middle Bitchburn, Constantine Coal Co., Auckland, Durham. Crushed by horse and tub on surface.

SCOTT William - 1867 - 03/05/1867 – Age 19 - Hewer. Townley, A Potter and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Fall of stone.

SCOTT William - 1869 - 01/11/1869 – Age 58 - Hewer. Backworth Maude, Taylor and Co., Newcastle, Northumberland. Fall of coal.

SCRAGG J. - 1869 - 29/04/1869 – Age 13 - Boy. Tunstall, H Meir, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fell from inset part way down.

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

SCREEN C. - 1867 - 08/08/1867 - Bandsman. Can Lane, T Pemberton, Sedgley, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in bottom coal pit

SCREEN J. - 1861 - 01/11/1861 – Age 37 – Bondsman. Moat Earl of Dudley, Tipton, Worcestershire. Fall of roof in the gateroad of a thin coal pit. He was throwing the roof down by wedging when it accidentally fell on him.

SCULLEY P. - 1869 - 15/01/1869 – Age 21 - Bondsman. Birchill’s, G Williams, Walsall, Staffordshire. Whilst in the act of improperly getting into the skip he slipped into the sump.

SCULLION R. - 1867 - 21/05/1867 – Age 22 - Miner. Polkemmet (ironstone), Shotts Iron Co., Bathgate, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone.

SCULLY Owen - 1861 - 09/03/1861 Engine - Fireman. Kinneil Iron Works, William Wilson and Co., Bo’ness, West Lothian. Explosion of steam boiler.

SCURFIELD or SCARFIELD George - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 51. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

SCURFIELD Thomas - 1863 - 23/05/1863 – Age 31 - Deputy. Thornley, Thornley Coal Co., Durham. Fall of stone.

SEBASTIAN Thomas - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 19. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed.

SECKOR Frederick - 1868 - 13/07/1868 – Age 15 - Driver. Blacker Main, Blacker Main Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Crushed between tubs and props.

SEDDON Alfred - 1867 - 08/05/1867 – Age 26 - Drawer. Wood, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SEDDON Henry - 1862 - 05/12/1862 – Age 76 - Miner. Barracks, Bridgewater Trust, Worsley, Lancashire. Fall of roof from his place in the 7-feet mine.

SEDDON J. - 1863 - 23/11/1863 – Age 67 – Furnaceman. Hulton, Hulton Colliery Co., Hulton, Lancashire. He apparently jumped out of the cage in descending the School pit having mistaken an upper mouthing from the bottom landing and supposed he was being lowered into the sump.

SEDDON James - 1867 - 30/05/1867 – Age 18 - Mesne Colliery, Peter Nightingale and Co., Worsley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Rams Seven Feet Mine. A new cut through was made the evening before but being only a small hole the flexible tubing, which had been used instead of brattice, being stowed in the previous cut through there was not enough room for the air which caused the ventilation being overpowered during the night. The fireman and the miners also appeared were going to work in the morning and one of them, was found in advance instead of the fireman making the inspection with a lamp. 7 killed.

SEDDON James - 1868 - 22/10/1868 - Banksman. Kearsley, Samuel Scowcroft, Kearsley, Lancashire. Falling down the shaft on the Trencherbone mine. Self-acting fences were provided but one of them was off at the time for the purpose of taking out a water tank and putting in the cage.

SEDDON John - 1867 - 08/05/1867 – Age 28 - Miner. Outwood, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire. Suffocated by afterdamp from an explosion in the Gingham 4-ft mine. Flexible air tubing about 14 ins in diameter was being used in several places to Convey air to the faces beyond the cut-throughs and scarcely any leakage allowed; the small area so far stopped the general ventilation as to cause the gas to overpower it in the innermost. 3 killed working.

SEDDON John - 1867 - 30/05/1867 – Age 57 - Miner. Mesne Colliery, Peter Nightingale and Co., Worsley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Rams Seven Feet Mine. A new cut through was made the evening before but being only a small hole the flexible tubing, which had been used instead of brattice, being stowed in the previous cut through there was not enough room for the air which caused the ventilation being overpowered during the night. The fireman and the miners also appeared were going to work in the morning and one of them, was found in advance instead of the fireman making the inspection with a lamp. 7 killed.

SEDDON Noah - 1864 - 24/06/1864 – Age 13 - Drawer. Haigh, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Wigan, Lancashire. He was knocked out of the cage by a tub falling down the pit as he was ascending.

SEDDON R. - 1860 - 25/09/1860 – Age 18 - Collier. Little Lever, Andrew Knowles and Sons, Little Lever, Lancashire. Fall of clod in the Three Yards mine, Ravin pit.

SEDDON Ralph - 1864 - 14/05/1864 - Labourer. Ince Hall, Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Crushed between the buffers of two coal trucks on the surface.

SEDDON S. - 1860 - 10/11/1860 – Age 22 - Collier. Ashton’s Field, Bridgewater Trust, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Fall of roof, Trencherbone mine.

SEDDON Thomas - 1869 - 21/07/1869 – Age 45 - Collier. Queen Colliery, Richard Evans and Sons, Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 59 killed.

SEDDON William - 1863 - 14/03/1863 – Age 44 - Driver. Fairbottom, Leeses and Booth, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Roof falling in Wood Park pit.

SEDDON William - 1869 - 15/11/1869 – Age 20 – Dataller. Low Hal, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 27 killed.

SELF Thomas - 1860 - 12/11/1860, Level at Varteg, Monmouth. Fall of a stone.

SELLARS John - 1861 - 29/12/1861. Castle, Hormsfield and Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Run over by Corfe in the mine.

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

SELLICK James - 1864 - 26/02/1864 – Age 13 - Doorboy. Victoria, Ebbw Vale Co., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. He was proceeding to his work and was near the bottom of the engine-bank when the trams broke loose from the wire-rope and overwhelmed him.

SELMAN G - 1864 - 10/03/1864 – Age 16 - Waggoner. Pinnox, HH Williamson, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs on incline.

SELWAY William - 1864 - 05/04/1864 – Age 30 - Collier. New Rock, New Rock Colliery Co., Somerset. By superincumbent pressure a heavy mass of coal flew out of the face of work with such violence as to knock him backwards and deprived him of life.

SENIOR John - 1860 - 18/10/1860 – Age 34 - Hewer. Chilton, R.W. Jackson, Ferry Hill, Durham. Fall of stone.

SEVERN G. - 1861 - 13/12/1861 – Age 37 - Miner. Shipley, A M Mundy, Heanor, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

SEVERNS E. - 1863 - 17/11/1863 – Age 52 – Butty. Hateley Heath (ironstone), T Millership, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Fell down shaft. 2 killed.

SEWELL J. - 1867 - 11/02/1867 40 - Miner. Foley (ironstone), A Sparrow
Longton, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SEYMOUR Sidney - 1867 - 09/01/1867 – Age 19 - Carting Boy. Tyning, Countess of Waldegrave, Radstock, Somerset. He was at the top of an underground incline trying to let a tub of coal down when the chain broke and possibly the backlash killed him but he was alone, so no one can say for certain. Perhaps, finding the velocity very great he had applied the brake too violently.

SEYMOUR Thomas - 1861 - 12/06/1861 – Age 45 – Horsekeeper. Tyning, Countess of Waldegrave, Radstock, Somerset. Taking a pony down the pit he rode on top of the cage (always a dangerous place). The engine was a new one and very quick, and now for the first time, started and let the carriage down violently. Seymour was jolted off and fell to the inset below a distance of 40 fathoms.

SHAW - 1860 - 03/09/1860 – Age 15 - Pony driver. Kilburn J. Ray, Belper, Derbyshire. Falling down the shaft from half way owing to the descending cage being forced out of the guides with a piece of timber which one of the deceased took with him. 4 killed.

SHACKLETON Isaac - 1862 - 08/02/1862. Altofts, Pope and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Falling down shaft.

SHAKESPEARE J. - 1866 - 22/11/1866 – Age 50 - Bandsman. Alston, Alston Colliery Co., Oldbury, Worcestershire. Fall of timber props and settings caused by a ‘bump’ which forced them out of place in thick coal pit.

SHANESSEY P. - 1861 - 07/09/1861 – Age 14 - Collier. New Fletcher, Solly and Co., Willenhall, Staffordshire. Injured 1st July by fall of roof in the new mine and fireclay coal. Died this day.

SHANKLEY John - 1860 - 27/08/1860 – Screener. Seaham, Marchioness of Londonderry, Sunderland, Durham. Breaking of small coal apparatus chain.

SHANNON John - 1866 - 16/10/1866 – Age 26 - Hewer. Coxhoe, Morrison and Co., Ferry Hill, Durham. While ascending the shaft.

SHARE Elisha - 1860 - 15/09/1860 – Age 14. Old Park, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of coal by a ‘bump’ it detached a piece of ’patchells’ between Cog and rib.

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

SHARP George - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 49. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife and three children.

SHARP Henry - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 44 – Deputy Overman. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife.

SHARP J - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 13. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

SHARP John - 1864 - 18/07/1864 – Age 16 - Apparatus Boy. Elm Park, Bainbridge and Co., Crook, Durham. Breaking of apparatus chain.

SHARP John - 1868 - 28/05/1868 – Age 13 - Driver. Birchwood, Charles Seeley, Alfreton, Derbyshire. Run over on incline underground.

SHARP Joseph - 1863 - 07/04/1863 – Age 11 - Not employed. Westerton, N Wood and Co., Auckland, Durham. Crushed by tubs near screens.

SHARP Thomas - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 48. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed.

SHARP William - 1864 - 05/10/1864 – Age 17 - Putter. Jane Pit, Eppleton, South Hetton Coal Co., Hetton, Durham. Crushed by tub.

SHARP William - 1866 - 02/06/1866 – Age 11 – Wailer. South Tanfield, John Joicey and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Falling off a truck.

SHARPE J. - 1864 - 17/02/1864 – Age 30 - Bandsman. Union, P Williams and Co., West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Fell into pit shaft.

SHARPE Joseph - 1869 - 23/10/1869 – Age 38 - Collier. Moira, Countess of Loudon, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Explosion of powder (Rawdon pit).

SHARPE William - 1861 - 12/11/1861 – Age 46 – Bottomer. Todhill (ironstone), William Baird and Co., Dalry, Ayrshire.  Fell from mid-working.

SHARPLES Giles - 1860 - 02/10/1860 – Age 10 - Door Tenter. Dunkenhalgh Park, Joseph Barnes, Church, Lancashire. Caught by tram on the chain road from Moorhead pit.

SHARPLES Thomas - 1860 - 03/08/1860 – Age 50 - Fireman. Winstanley, Meyriek Banks, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp. 13 killed.

SHARRATT W - 1868 - 20/11/1868 – Blacksmith. Whitehall, J Kendrick, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Walked into working shaft.

SHARROCK Benjamin - 1869 - 04/09/1869 – Age 30 - Collier. Orrell, William Hill, Branker, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof in Orrell, left mine.

SHARROCK Henry - 1867 - 01/02/1867 - Labourer. Norley, Norley Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Run over by railway truck.

SHARROCK Thomas - 1862 - 30/10/1862 - Collier. Haigh, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Haigh, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of coal at face.

SHARROCK William - 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.

SHAW David - 1864 - 17/04/1864. Cleckheaton (ironstone), Low Moor Iron Co., Bradford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in mine.

SHAW David - 1868 - 17/03/1868 – Age 12 - Collier. Neilston No.1, James Wallace and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Fall of roof at face.

SHAW J. - 1861 - 08/10/1861 – Age 15 - Trammer. Highfield, Oakerthorpe Iron Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Drawn down an incline by a loaded tram.

SHAW J. - 1868 - 17/08/1868 – Age 14 – Collier Boy. Brierley, J Yardley, Bilston, Staffordshire. Explosion of boiler.

SHAW John - 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.

SHAW John - 1863 - 03/06/1863 – Age 14 - Drawer. Binniehill, AC Brown, Slamannan, Stirling. Fell from Lady Grange seam to Splint seam a distance of 27 fathoms, Bottomers put on since.

SHAW John - 1865 - 09/03/1865 – Age 17 - Engineman. Milnwood, John Christie, Lanarkshire. Fell among the machinery.

SHAW John - 1866 - 23/01/1866 – Age 35 - Collier. Park Lane, Mercer and Evans, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 30 killed.

SHAW John - 1869 - 09/12/1869 – Age 45 - Collier. New Boston, Richard Evans and Sons, Haydock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SHAW Joseph - 1862 - 05/10/1862. Westwood, Newton and Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

SHAW Thomas - 1867 - 03/10/1867 – Age 21 - Waggoner. Trencherbone, Hulton Co., Over Hulton, Lancashire. Roof of the bay falling.

SHAW W - 1868 - 31/07/1868 – Age 19 – Stoker. Shelton, Earl Granville, Hanley, Staffordshire. Explosion of a boiler.

SHAW William - 1865 - 15/02/1865 – Age 26 - Collier. Park Lane, Mercer and Evans, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of coal in Pemberton 4 feet mine.

SHAW William - 1867 - 01/04/1867 – Age 19 - Collier. Binniehill, AC Brown, Slamannan, Stirling. Fall of roof.

SHAW William - 1867 - 09/08/1867 – Age 30 – Inclineman. Brightside, Pitsmoor Main Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Knocked down by jenny drag.

SHAW William - 1868 - 01/08/1868 – Age 24 - Hewer. Butterknowle, Trustees of the late L Pratman, Staindrop, Durham. Fall of stone.

SHAW William - 1868 - 21/05/1868 – Age 38 - Hewer. Thrislington, James Morrison and Co., Coxhoe, Durham. Fell into sump and was drowned.

SHAWCROSS Charles – 1865 - 08/09/1865 - Age 17 - Boy. Clayton, Leigh and Bradbury, Manchester, Lancashire. Fired a can with 4lbs. of powder in it. Died in the Manchester, Infirmary.

SHEDDICK Henry - 1865 - 31/03/1865 – Age 30 - Collier. Nailsea, Isaac White and Co., Nailsea, Somerset. Fall of roof from a concealed smooth. The place was only 5 feet wide and the joint never showed itself until the stuff had fallen.

SHEEN Thomas - 1867 - 05/10/1867 - Collier Boy. Prices, Tylery John Jayne, Abertillery, Monmouth. Killed by heavy fall of roof.

SHEEN William - 1865 - 02/12/1865 – Age 8 - Labourer. Cwmdare, Powell’s Steam Coal Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Suffocated by small coal. He was employed at the surface and did not come within the Act. His guardian, stepfather and the colliery manager were censured by the jury for employing a boy at such a tender age.

SHELDON George - 1863 - 04/12/1863 - Miner. Kinneil (ironstone), George Wilson, and Co., Bo’ness, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp. Neglect of 1st General Rule.

SHELDON S. - 1862 - 22/03/1862 – Age 19 - Pikeman. Victoria, (ironstone), WH Dawes, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Accidental fall of roof.

SHELDON W - 1867 - 13/04/1867 – Age 22 - Bandsman. Littleton Hall, WH Dawes, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Fall of coal from side of gateroad in thin mine.

SHELDON W. - 1863 - 17/04/1863 – Age 50 - Deputy. Bradley, GB Thorneycroft and Co., Bilston, Staffordshire. He was examining the overhanging coal when about a ton of it fell and broke his thigh 26th. Mar. Died this day. He had been unwell for some time and no doubt the injury accelerated his death. (New Mine Coal).

SHELF Thomas - 1860 - 12/11/1860 – Age 48 - Collier. Yard Vein Level, J & C Bailey, Varteg, Monmouth. About a foot of clod which lies immediately over the coal fell from want of cropping.

SHELLARD William - 1860 - 12/11/1860 – Age 45 - Labourer. New Tredegar, T. Powell and Sons, Rhymney, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp on the 12th. Died 28th. The masons, were walling a trail pit sunk near the bottom of the pumping shaft when one of the men took off his gauze which exploded the gas and the scaffold was upset and they fell to the bottom though Shellard alone received serious injury.

SHEMNELL R. - 1863 - 03/03/1863 – Age 19 - Miner. Whittingham, Rev. JC Pierce, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Falling down shaft.

SHENTON J. - 1863 - 26/10/1863 – Age 50 – Butty. Silverdale, Silverdale Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

SHEPHERD C. - 1866 - 06/03/1866 – Age 46 - Pikeman. Old Park (ironstone), Lloyds and Fosters, Wednesbury, Staffordshire. Fall of ironstone measures.

SHEPHERD J. - 1865 - 03/11/1865 – Age 35 - Bandsman. Costal, New British Iron Co., Corngreaves, Worcestershire. Fall of coal in thick coal 27th Oct. Died this day. The coal fell from between two slips or joints in lower working.

SHEPHERD John - 1866 - 03/05/1866 – Age 50 – Daywageman. Haydock, Richard Evans and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

SHEPHERD John - 1866 - 23/01/1866 – Age 15 - Drawer. Park Lane, Mercer and Evans, Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of gas. 30 killed.

SHEPHERD William - 1861 - 27/03/1861. Willow Bank, Thorp’s executors, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of coal in the mine.

SHEPHERD William - 1867 - 10/12/1867 – Enginedriver. Brinks, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Haigh, Wigan, Lancashire. Loco getting off the line on Colliery branch.

SHEPPARD Charles - 1865 - 14/06/1865. Radstock, Somerset. Killed by a fall of roof leaving a widow and two children who received £5 from the fund.

SHEPPARD J. - 1860 - 14/07/1860 – Age 40 - Sinker. Farnworth Bridge, Andrew Knowles and Sons, Little Lever, Lancashire. Breakage of windlass rope when sinking. Died 28th.

SHEPPARD W. - 1868 - 23/09/1868 – Age 40 - Pikeman. Black Heath, AH Dawes, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Fall of coal in thick coal pit the result of a bump which forced the timber out.

SHEPPERD Charles - 1865 - 14/06/1865 – Age 21 - Coal Breaker. Radstock, Countess of Waldegrave, Radstock, Somerset. A slip in the roof let off a mass of stone as he lay at work and so injured him that he died about half an hour later.

SHEPPERD Jonathan - 1864 - 26/09/1864 - Miner. Whittle Field, Executors of late John Hargreaves, Burnley, Lancashire. Stone falling upon him in the level.

SHEPPERD Joseph - 1861 - 30/10/1861 – Age 17 - Collier. Haigh, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Wigan, Lancashire. Falling down the pit.

SHERLOCK Patrick - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 14. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

SHERLOCK Patrick - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 28. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed.

SHERMAN William - 1868 - 04/11/1868 – Age 21 - Collier. Gresley, Gresley Ltd., Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Suffocated by the gas from a spontaneous fire. 2 killed.

SHERRATT H - 1868 - 02/11/1868 – Age 20 - Driver. Silverdale (ironstone), Silverdale Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of stone.

SHERRATT J. - 1869 - 22/03/1869 – Age 32 - Collier. Bradley Green, Leigh and Bradbury, Congleton, Cheshire. Fall of roof.

SHERRATT S - 1868 - 11/09/1868 – Age 22 - Driver. Norton, R Heath, Burslem, Staffordshire. Fell off waggon and was crushed.

SHERRATT Thomas - 1867 - 30/04/1867 - Collier. Silkstone Fall, Silkstone Fall Coal Co., Silkstone, Yorkshire. Caught by set of corves on rolley way.