	Blantyre Colliery	Index	Blantyre Colliery

Blantyre Colliery

Location:	Blantyre 8 miles [13 km] ESE of Glasgow
Map Ref:	(Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS693584, 55° 48' 4" N, 4° 5' 7" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	No. 1 Pit
	No. 2 Pit, locn: (Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS682562
	No. 3 Pit, locn: (Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS688560
	No. 4 Pit, locn: (Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS681573
Owners:	William Dixon Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (108,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 575 (473 below, 102 surface)
	1900 - 718 (575 below, 143 surface)
	1905 - 1,045 (847 below, 198 surface)
	1910 - 1,079 (858 below, 221 surface)
	1915 - 721 (530 below, 191 surface)
	1920 - 816 (629 below, 187 surface)
	1923 - 783 (635 below, 148 surface)
	1933 - 572 (448 below, 124 surface)
	1940 - 459 (370 below, 89 surface)
	1947 - 456 (362 below, 94 surface)
	1954 - 445 (330 below, 115 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Ell, Humph, Main, Pyotshaw, Splint
	1915 - Blackband, Ell, Humph, Main, Pyotshaw, Splint
	1920 - Blackband, Ell, Main, Pyotshaw, Splint
	1954 - Blackband, Virtuewell
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

22nd	Oct	1877	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp, 207 lives lost (Show Names)
5th	Mar	1878	6 lives lost (Show Names)
2nd	Jul	1879	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, 25 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Allan, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Anderson, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Armstrong, Thomas, 22 Jul 1901, aged 20, Waggon Shifter, While illegally spragging a waggon with a prop the sprag struck and threw him in front of the wheels, which ran over him
						Baxter, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bell, James, 16 Oct 1884, aged 16, Driver, Run over by loaded hutches
						Berry, Peter, 02 Jul 1879, aged 58, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and six children [More information ...]
						Beveridge, Thomas, 26 Feb 1895, 10 a.m., aged 53, Brusher, Fall of roof at miner's working face
						Black, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 38, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bodman, John, 14 Feb 1872, aged 30, Pit-head man, Crushed between cage and frame at surface
						Bolton, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bolton, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bolton, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bolton, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Boyle, Simon, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Boyle, Tague, 02 Jul 1879, aged 22, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Boyle, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 49, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brannaghan, Owen, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brannan, Michael, 22 Oct 1877, aged 26, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brodie, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brown, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 43, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brown, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Brown, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 18, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Bryson, James, 02 Jul 1879, aged 58, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and family [More information ...]
						Burns, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 33, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Burns, Patrick, 22 Oct 1877, aged 34, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Burns, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Burns, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Burt, Andrew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cairns, Bernard, 02 Jul 1879, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, died the following day [More information ...]
						Cairns, Michael, 22 Oct 1877, aged 29, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Campbell, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 33, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Campbell, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Campbell, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Canavan, Patrick, 27 Jul 1885, aged 35, Collier, Fall of roof. At face; long wall
						Carlin, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 34, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Carmichael, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Carrol, James, 15 Feb 1876, aged 50, Waggon shifter, [Miscellaneous on Surface] Jammed betwen waggons while shifting them
						Cavanagh, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cavanagh, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cavanagh, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Clark, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Clark, James, 21 Dec 1882, aged 27, Collier, Fall of side. While holing at stooping
						Cleghorn, Turnbull, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Clyde, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 12, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Clyde, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 38, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Clyde, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Conaghan, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Conlan, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cosgrove, Francis, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cosgrove, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cox, Andrew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cox, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 46, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Cox, John, 23 Mar 1905, aged 58, Oncostman, While ascending the shaft, in some unknown manner he fell off the cage
						Coyle, Charles, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Crawford, D., 16 Sep 1875, aged 24, Sinker, [Falling into Shaft from Surface] He was bringing a cystern up a sinking pit, which caught on reaching the surface and pitched him off
						Crawford, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Crow, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Currie, Michael, 05 Mar 1878, aged 40, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Davies, James, 04 Apr 1902, aged 25, Pony driver, A hutch went off the rails, knocked out a prop and the roof fell upon him
						Divers, Charles, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Dixon, Robert, 29 Oct 1895, 9 a.m., aged 41, Miner, Fall of roof at working face
						Dobbie, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Dobbie, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Dolan, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Dolan, Patrick, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Donelly, Hugh, 12 Apr 1897, aged 31, Waggon shifter, Run down by N. B. Railway engine while engaged waggon shifting
						Downie, Thomas, 02 Feb 1885, aged 52, Collier, Fall of side. While holing. Long wall
						Dunstan, William Irons, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Eadie, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 50, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Erskine, Thomas, 22 Dec 1913, aged 59, Labourer, Deceased was standing in the centre of the "shed road" of railway watching the approach of a Caledonian train on the main line, and was not aware of the approach of the colliery locomotive from the opposite direction coming into the same "shed road," and was run down and killed
						Fricleton, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gainor, Charles, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gardiner, Samuel, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gardiner, William, 11 Jun 1880, aged 25, Brusher, Fall of roof. On drawing road while taking down loose stone, longwall
						Gemmell, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gemmell, Mathew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 31, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gemmell, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gilmour, Joseph, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gilmour, Joseph, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gold, Andrew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gold, Benjamin, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gold, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 33, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gold, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Gracie, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 57, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Graham, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hailey, Hugh, 25 Oct 1889, aged 50, Foreman brusher, Fall of roof while knocking out a prop
						Halliday, Mathew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 48, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Halliday, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 39, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Halliday, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Halliday, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hamilton, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 31, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hammill, David, 14 Oct 1879, aged 49, Collier, Fall of coal. At face while holing. Long wall
						Hanlon, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Harvey, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 44, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Hastie, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 11, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Henderson, Alexander, 09 Jul 1914, aged 57, Repairer, Deceased was apparently examining the roof in a roadway, which he had been sent to repair, when part of it fell, and a stone struck his head, fracturing his skull and pinning him to the pavement
						Hendry, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hendry, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hendry, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hendry, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Hopkins, Patrick, 05 Mar 1878, aged 20, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Houghnie, Martin, 05 Mar 1878, aged 16, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Houghnie, Patrick, 05 Mar 1878, aged 36, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Howitt, Michael, 02 Jul 1879, aged 27, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Irvine, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 36, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Irvine, Thomas, 02 Jul 1879, aged 60, Bottomer, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and grown up family [More information ...]
						Jardine, Edward, 02 Jul 1879, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, widower [More information ...]
						Johnstone, Andrew, 13 May 1896, aged 20, Miner, Fall of coal and stone
						Kelly, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kelly, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 33, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kelly, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kelly, Patrick, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kemp, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kenny, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 45, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kerr, John, 02 Mar 1874, aged 25, Brusher, These men descended 10 minutes before to work at a new furnace within 20 yards of the shaft. No one else was in the seam. Being experienced men they were permitted to examine the place themselves, and neglected to do so with a safety lamp. [More information ...]
						King, James, 01 Jun 1904, aged 23, Pony Driver, Empty hutches ran back down an incline and ran over him
						King, John, 04 Aug 1904, aged 53, Miner, Fall of coal
						Kirkland, Robert Orr, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Kyle, Nicol, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Lafferty, James, 02 Jul 1879, aged 46, Fireman, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and a family [More information ...]
						Lang, Archibald, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Lang, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 55, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Larkin, Hugh, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Lauder, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Lauder, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Leishman, Gavin, 07 Feb 1899, aged 14, Stone picker, He was sitting on the rails under an empty waggon when a railway locomotive and waggons came up without warning and he was run over
						Liddel, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 41, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Liddel, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 12, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Louden, Joseph, 27 May 1884, aged 25, Brusher, Fall of roof. While putting in a building ; long wall
						Lucas, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Mackie, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 31, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Mackie, William, 07 Dec 1883, aged 15, Driver, Fall of roof. While passing along coal face, where he had no business to be
						Malone, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 38, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and five children [More information ...]
						Marshall, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Martin, David, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Martin, Hugh, 22 Oct 1877, aged 51, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McAdams, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McAnulty, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 54, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McArthur, Alexander, 02 Jul 1879, aged 40, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow [More information ...]
						McCallum, Edward, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCue, Patrick, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCulloch, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 44, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCulloch, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCulloch, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCusker, Henry, 22 Oct 1877, aged 30, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McCusker, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McDonald, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 29, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McDonald, Thomas, 26 Aug 1897, aged 27, Miner, Fall of roof at working place at stoops
						McFadyen, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McFadyen, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McFarlane, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 31, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGarry, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGarvie, Patrick, 02 Jul 1879, aged 55, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow [More information ...]
						McGarvin, Edward, 02 Jul 1879, aged 23, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						McGhee, Abraham, 22 Oct 1877, aged 18, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGhee, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGhee, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGown, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McGribben, Patrick, 02 Jul 1879, aged 58, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a wife and grown up family [More information ...]
						McGuire, Robert, 12 Apr 1883, aged 13, Trapper, Found crushed by tubs on engine plane. He had probably fallen asleep
						McIntyre, Gilbert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 47, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McKay, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 48, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McKelvie, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McKillop, Archibald, 22 Oct 1877, aged 12, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McKillop, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McKinlay, John, 03 Aug 1906, aged 72, Gate keeper, When standing at his post at a level crossing he was run into by a cyclist who lost control of his machine
						McKinnon, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 32, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLachlan, Edward, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLachlan, Moses, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLachlan, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLaughlan, Edward, 22 Oct 1877, aged 18, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLaughlan, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McLean, Andrew, 14 Mar 1880, aged 21, Collier, Supposed to have been suffocated by an underground fire. His body was found on the 12th January 1881
						McMeechan, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 45, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McMillan, David, 07 Sep 1883, aged 40, Collier, Fall of side. At face
						McMillan, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 30, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McMurdo, Robert, 09 Jan 1908, aged 28, Brusher, When putting in a building at a roadhead, and after knocking out at least one prop, the roof gave way and fell upon him. Three props were afterwards found under the fall, but it is doubtful whether or not these had been displaced by the fall
						McNaught, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 26, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						McNulty, Joseph, 20 Aug 1877, aged 21, Collier, Explosion of firedamp. At "stoops." Working with naked light
						McTavie, Bernard, 22 Oct 1877, aged 56, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Meechan, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 39, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Miller, Alexander, 22 Oct 1877, aged 18, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Miller, Joseph, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Miller, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Moir, Edward, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Moir, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 36, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Morgan, Hugh, 22 Oct 1877, aged 37, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Morrison, Andrew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 48, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Morrison, John, 30 May 1874, aged 33, Brusher, Fell from the Ell Coal, about 30 fathoms. He was removing temporary buntons when one of them overbalanced him. He might have had it secured by a rope
						Muir, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Mullan, Robert, 02 Jul 1879, aged 28, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Mulligan, Bernard, 28 Dec 1906, aged 25, Brusher, Fall of roof at brushing face while putting in a building
						Murdoch, Robert, 05 Mar 1878, aged 20, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Murdoch, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Murdoch, Thomas, 05 Mar 1878, aged 50, Collier, Overwinding [More information ...]
						Murphy, Francis, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Murphy, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Murphy, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Murphy, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Murray, Bernard, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Murray, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 50, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Neilson, James, 29 Nov 1880, aged 50, Brusher, Fall of roof. In a road while redding a fall
						Neilson, William, 28 Mar 1877, aged 36, Labourer, Crushed by log of timber while unloading wagons
						Newton, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 60, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Nichol, John, 10 Sep 1880, aged 14, Apprentice mason, Run over by a wagon while attempting to sprag it
						Nisbett, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						O'Brian, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						O'Brian, Peter, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						O'Bryen, Bernard, 02 Jul 1879, aged 29, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and one child [More information ...]
						O'Donnell, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 26, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						O'Donnell, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						O'Neil, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 32, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and three children [More information ...]
						Ovens, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Park, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 34, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Paton, William, 06 Sep 1906, aged 16, Miner, Fall of roof in working place
						Pollock, Hugh, 02 Mar 1874, aged 50, Brusher, These men descended 10 minutes before to work at a new furnace within 20 yards of the shaft. No one else was in the seam. Being experienced men they were permitted to examine the place themselves, and neglected to do so with a safety lamp. [More information ...]
						Primrose, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Quinn, Henry, 28 Jul 1914, aged 50, Shaftsman and Repairer, Deceased, with several others, was repairing at large fall on the main haulage road and, while standing upon the fall breaking up some stones, part of the roof above fell and fatally crushed him
						Rae, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Ragan, Patrick, 20 Feb 1878, aged 33, Brusher, Fall of roof. At face of "brushing." Longwall
						Ramsay, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 25, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Redman, William, 05 May 1884, aged 17, Drawer, Fall of roof. On road near face ; long wall
						Reevie, Alexander, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Reevie, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 59, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Reid, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Reid, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 27, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Renwick, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 48, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Richardson, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Roberts, Moses, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Roberts, Samuel, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Roberts, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Roberts, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Rodgers, James, 28 Mar 1899, aged 26, Waggon trimmer, While spragging a railway waggon he fell, and the sprag crushed him against the ground
						Ross, Richard, 22 Oct 1877, aged 30, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Runn, Richard, 02 Jul 1879, aged 30, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and six children [More information ...]
						Russell, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 20, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Sawers, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Semple, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 32, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Sharp, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 40, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Sharp, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 63, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Shearer, John, 29 Dec 1904, (accident: 03 Aug 1904), aged 58, Miner, Fall of stone from working face. Accident was not reported until after his death on 29th December
						Sherry, Hugh, 29 Mar 1880, aged 21, Collier, Fall of side. At face, while holing, longwall
						Simmington, Alexander, 02 Jul 1879, aged 24, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Simpson, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 24, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Simpson, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 60, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Smith, Edward, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Smith, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 35, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Smith, Patrick, 22 Oct 1877, aged 40, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Smith, William, 15 May 1907, aged 16, Drawer, Fall of roof on road, caused by his hutch going off the rails and knocking out a prop
						Sneddon, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 39, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Sneddon, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Sneddon, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Spiers, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Spiers, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Spiers, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Spiers, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stark, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 29, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Steele, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 36, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Steele, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stevenson, Alexander, 22 Oct 1877, aged 42, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stevenson, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stevenson, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stewart, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 19, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stewart, Malcolm, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Stewart, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Struthers, Robert, 03 Dec 1889, aged 15, Waggon shifter, Run over by a waggon while spragging it
						Thompson, Edward, 02 Jul 1879, aged 31, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, left a widow and three chidren [More information ...]
						Thomson, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Todd, George, 22 Oct 1877, aged 43, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Tonner, Charles, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Tonner, Hugh, 22 Oct 1877, aged 48, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Traynor, John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Vallelly, Patrick, 02 Jul 1879, aged 21, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, single [More information ...]
						Vallely, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Ward, Neil, 22 Oct 1877, aged 57, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wardroper, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 37, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Watt, Alexander, 22 Oct 1877, aged 28, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Weldon, John, 01 Dec 1898, aged 32, Miner, Fall of roof at working face
						Welsh, Francis, 22 Oct 1877, aged 23, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Welsh, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 15, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Welsh, John Young, 22 Oct 1877, aged 22, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						White, Andrew, 22 Oct 1877, aged 37, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						White, Robert, 22 Oct 1877, aged 16, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						White, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 13, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, Hugh, 22 Oct 1877, aged 36, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 14, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, John, 02 Jul 1879, aged 25, Brusher, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Wilson, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 45, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, Thomas, 22 Oct 1877, aged 21, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wilson, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wood, William, 22 Oct 1877, aged 51, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wright, James, 22 Oct 1877, aged 49, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]
						Wright, John, 09 Nov 1904, aged 46, Picking table foreman, While oiling the machinery in motion he got caught by the shafting
						Wright, McEwan John, 22 Oct 1877, aged 17, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shotfiring or safety lamp [More information ...]

						295 names found

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Sources:

1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Scotland Division (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)), Scotland Division (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website