List of the sufferers
Thomas Briggs, left a wife; John Briggs, a son of the above, and
son; John Whitfield and son; William and George Elsdon, brothers,
young men; Henry Mather, young man; Joseph Gibson and three
sons; William Favish, left a widow; William Jobling, left a widow;
Ralph Surtees. young man; John and William Surtees, brothers,
cousins to the above, both young men; Robert Williamson, young
man; John Williamson, deputy, brother to the above, left a wife and
six children, pregnant with the seventh; Wanless Thompson, left a
wife and large family; John Noble, left a wife and four children; Geo.
Hall and son, left a wife; — Hall, a boy; William Routledge,
young man, this young man's father was burnt to death upon the same
colliery a short time since; Daniell Lemon, cousin to the above, left a
wife and one child; Henry Weightman, left a wife and one child;
William Weightman, boy, son or nephew to the above; John Currie,
left a wife and family; William Dixon and son, left a wife and family;
John Pettley, young man; William and John Dixon, brothers, young
men; John Curley, left a wife and one child; Elliot Richardson and
son, left a wife and family; Michael Thurlwell, young man, Christopher,
John, and Stephen Teesdale, brothers, their father fell down the
same it and was killed; Robert Carr, left a wife and one child;
Robert Rosecamp, left a wife and four children; William Rosecamp,
brother to the above, left a widow; James Maughan, young man; Thos.
Bottoms, boy; Joseph Wolfe, left a wife and one child; Peter Wolfe,
brothers; Four brothers of the name Drydon, and Edward Nicholson,
brought up in the same family, young men, lately from Walker;
R. Douglass, left a wife and four children; John Brown, young man;
Mark Davidson, young man; John Brown, young man; George
Dawson, left a wife and six children; Thomas Moody; Hans Ward,
left a wife and five children, pregnant with the sixth; William Barras,
left a wife and four children, also his son, a boy, whom he took down
the pit for the first time to look at it; George Bell, left a wife, and
Jonathan Bell, brothers; William Taylor; William Davidson, left a
wife and three children; Michael, Matthew and Henry Clough, brothers,
under sixteen years of age; James Sanderson, left a wife and
two children; William and John Harrison, brothers; John Sanderson,
left a wife; James and Thomas Turnbull, brothers, young men; John
and Thomas Willis, brothers, young men; John Willis, a boy; Peter
Robinson, young man; George Richardson, left a wife and one child;
Joseph Moffit, left a wife, Richardson and Moffit married two sisters;
John Ferry, left a wife and five children; George Ferry, son of the
above; George Heslop, young man; John Parkinson, young man;
Robert and Thomas Nicholson, brothers, boys; Two boys of the name
of Gilroy, brothers; William Nichol, young man; William Dobson,
left a wife; James Richardson, left a wife and four children; James
Leyland, left a wife and two children; James Robson, a boy; and
Robert Hogg, a young man.