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	Pelsall Hall Colliery	Index	Pelsall Hall Colliery

Location:	Walsall 6½ miles [11 km] ENE of Wolverhampton
Map Ref:	(Sheet 139 Birmingham and Wolverhampton) SK015031, 52° 37' 32" N, 1° 58' 38" W
Opened:	1865
Closed:	1890
Pits:	Nos. 1 & 2 Pits
	Nos. 3 & 4 Pits, locn: (Sheet 139 Birmingham and Wolverhampton) SK017029
Owners:	Pelsall Hall Colliery Co.
	Morgan and Starkey

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

14th

Nov

1872

Irruption of water, 22 lives lost (Show Names)

Those entries marked with , signify a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Astbury, Charles, 14 Nov 1872, aged 28, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Baugh, George, 14 Nov 1872, aged 39, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Blake, T., 18 Oct 1871, Pickman, Crushed by cage
						Capewell, Charles, 14 Nov 1872, aged 89, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Cash, Charles, 14 Nov 1872, aged 21, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Cash, Michael, 14 Nov 1872, aged 48, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Cassel, George, 14 Nov 1872, aged 28, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Coleman, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 14, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Dilke, J., 11 Nov 1867, Collier, Crushed by skip
						Dilkes, Frank, 14 Nov 1872, aged 27, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Hayward, John, 14 Nov 1872, aged 38, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Hollis, Joseph, 14 Nov 1872, aged 27, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Hollis, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 28, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Hubbard, John, 14 Nov 1872, aged 17, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Hyde, Richard, 14 Nov 1872, aged 28, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Lawton, Stephen, 14 Nov 1872, aged 13, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Orcutt, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 30, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Parr, R., 10 Jan 1867, aged 40, Bandsman, Fall of coal and rock roof between two slips in shallow coal [More information ...]
						Quarters, John, 14 Nov 1872, aged 45, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Richards, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 30, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Roberts, John, 14 Nov 1872, aged 14, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Rowley, Henry, 16 Jan 1879, aged 24, Stallman, After firing a shot he pulled down some coals on himself on which a bar was resting causing his death 6 hours later
						Starkey, J., 10 Jan 1867, aged 60, Bandsman, Fall of coal and rock roof between two slips in shallow coal [More information ...]
						Starkey, John, 14 Nov 1872, aged 26, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Starkey, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 18, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Starkey, Thomas, 14 Nov 1872, aged 70, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						Williams, Edward, 14 Nov 1872, aged 48, Irruption of water [More information ...]
						27 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with , were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above

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