	Edmunds Main Colliery	Index	Edmunds Main Colliery

Edmunds Main Colliery

Location:	Barnsley 2 miles [4 km] SSE of Barnsley
Map Ref:	(Sheet 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield, 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SE362033, 53° 31' 31" N, 1° 27' 12" W
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Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

8th

Dec

1862

Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing and naked lights, 59 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Abson, Charles, 19 Oct 1882, aged 67, Screener, Crushed by waggons
						Armirage, O., 21 Nov 1870, aged 16, Hurrier, Run over by tub
						Axon, Jubel, 11 Jul 1867, aged 18, Engineman, Caught by circular saw
						Baker, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Bates, Matthew, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Birch, Isaac, 12 Jul 1861, Fall of coal in the mine
						Blacker, Peter, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Columbine, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Cottle, Nicholas, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Cottle, Robert, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Davy, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Eastwood, James, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Ellis, James, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Ellis, John, snr., 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Ellis, Walter, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Ewins, James, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Farrington, Robert, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Fielding, Moses, 05 Aug 1875, Trammer, Fall of coal
						Fielding, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Firth, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Frobisher, Charles, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Galloway, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Gawthorpe, Thomas, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Gledhill, John, 06 Oct 1865, Fall of coal in mine
						Harper, Charles, 16 Nov 1878, (accident: 15 Nov 1878), aged 56, Screenman, Crushed by waggons ; died 16th Nov
						Harris, W., 24 Oct 1882, (accident: 27 Sep 1882), aged 69, Roadman, Crushed by corves. Died 24th Oct
						Hartley, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hartley, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hartley, Walter, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hawley, Joseph, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hitchin, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hough, Robert, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hoyland, Benjamin, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Hunt, Richard, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Lawton, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Lawton, Henry, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Leatham, Osaac, 30 Sep 1880, (accident: 29 Sep 1880), aged 24, Trammer, Fall of roof coal. Died 30th
						Leech, Edward, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Margerison, Thomas, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						McCourt, Patrick, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Mortomley, Charles, 07 Jul 1865, Fall of coal in mine
						Nixon, Charles, 29 Sep 1859, aged Boy, Crushed by corves in the mine
						Ogley, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Ogley, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Oldfield, Robert, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Oxterberry, Thomas, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Palfreyman, Henry, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Parkin, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Parkinson, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Porter, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Porter, William James, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Pratt, William, 26 Oct 1871, aged 32, Hurrier, Fall of roof
						Radcliffe, James, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Rigby, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Schofield, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Sharrock, William, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Shaw, John, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Stubbs, J., 11 Jul 1884, aged 29, Collier, Fall of coal
						Walker, Joseph, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Watson, Robert, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Wildsmith, Charles, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Wroe, George, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]
						Wroe, Thomas, 08 Dec 1862, Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam [More information ...]

						63 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1859 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire District by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1861 Mines Inspectors Report, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Yorkshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report