I am researching the following names - BANKS : Stretton (Cheshire), Manchester (Lancs) BRADBURY : Lymm (Cheshire) BROWNBILL : St Helens (Lancs) CALLAGHAN : St Helens (Lancs), Ireland DANIELS : Bowdon (Cheshire) GABRIEL : St Helens (Lancs), Liverpool (Lancs), Dublin (Ireland) GARDNER : Dublin (Ireland) GRATWICH : Barlaston (Staffs) HIGHAM : Lymm (Cheshire), Leigh (Lancs) JOHNSON : Over Peover (Cheshire) JOHNS(T)ON : Wallasey (Cheshire), Birkenhead (Cheshire), Hull (East Riding), North Shields/Tynemouth (Northumberland), Ryton (Co. Durham) JONES : Whitchurch (Shrops) LEIGH : Lymm (Cheshire) MILLER : Lymm (Cheshire), Grappenhall (Cheshire) MOSTON/MOSSON : Lymm (Cheshire), Over Peover (Cheshire), Marthall (Cheshire) NORBURY : Liverpool (Lancs) PERCIVAL : Lymm (Cheshire), Antrobus (Cheshire) RICHARDSON : Lymm (Cheshire), Prescot (Lancs) TABERN : St Helens (Lancs) THOMPSON : North Shields/Tynemouth (Northumberland) WILLIAMSON : Cheshire WINSTANLEY : Lymm (Cheshire) WOOTTON : Barlaston (Staffs), Moddershall (Staffs), Stone (Staffs) I would be pleased to hear from anyone with similar interests. Thanks Tim

I recently found a list of the men killed or injured in the above mining disaster. (Details came from The Times Newspaper, which itself had taken them from the North & South Shields Gazette): The following were killed; Thomas HALL, hewer, leaves a widow and one child Thomas HALL, hewer, leaves a widow and four children William NIXON, hewer, leaves a widow and one child John EVANS, hewer, leaves a widow in a state of pregnancy and one child William JOBLING, hewer, leaves a widow and 8 children George RAMSHAW, hewer, leaves a widow & 4 grown-up children Robert STOREY, hewer, leaves a widow and one child Robert PURDY, hewer leaves a widow but no family William PURDY, hewer, unmarried George GREEN, hewer, leaves a widow and one child Henry HOLLAND, hewer, unmarried George BLACKEY, trapper, a boy Thomas CLINK, putter, a boy. The following were severely burnt; William GASCOIGNE Luke SHANKS Andrew CLINT James GILROY The following were unharmed; William MOULD James GORDON May be of interest to someone! Didn't find any of my own (thankfully I suppose)! > ==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== > U.K. PhoneDirectory > http://www.bt.com/phonenetuk/ > Looking for an address in the U.K. try, > http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ > >