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Pretoria Pit at Westhoughton, Lancashire. Disaster 1910 - Page 6


Explosion 344 killed - Those Who Died

Those Who Died
Of the 145 persons who went down the mine only 2 survive and the total death toll was 344


Those Who Were Recovered On The 26th December 1910

  • John L. Pemberton aged 21 of 117, Bracken Street, Chequerbent, Westhoughton
  • H. Gibson
  • Richard Seddon aged 24 of 2, Walker Street, Westhoughton
  • Michael Mulloy aged 26 of 64 Park Road, Westhoughton
  • William Croston aged 38 of 44, Chorley Road, married with a 10 week old child
  • Henry Doxey aged 23 of 658, Manchester Road, Westhoughton, single
  • Thomas Emmett aged 18 of 17, Park Road, Westhoughton
  • James Feeley of 105, Park Road, Westhoughton
  • John Andrew Wise aged 44 of 9, Tithe Barn Street, Westhoughton, married with two children aged 11 and 9
  • Enoch Pemberton of 1, Silk Street, Westhoughton, married with a 12 month old child
  • Thomas Jolley aged 49 of 440 Wigan Road, Westhoughton, married with seven children aged 27, 22, 19, 17, 14, 11 and 7
  • James Unsworth aged 30 of 449, St.Helens Road, Daubhill, Bolton, single
  • Peter Duffy aged 24 of 29, Back Moss Street, Bolton
  • Thomas Horrocks aged 49 of 76, Marer Lane Westhoughton, married with six children aged 13, 12, 10, 8, 6 and 2 months
  • Robert Morris aged 43 of 14, Howarth Street, Westhoughton, married with three children aged 21, 19 and 14
  • William Unsworth aged 23 of 194, Bolton Road, Westhoughton
  • Richard Green aged 53 of 11, Blackledge Street, Westhoughton, married with a 22 year old
  • J. Thomas Dootson
  • James Schofield a Widower of Daubhill with four children aged 14, 12, 10 and 7
  • A. Calderbank of 42, Chew Moor Lane, Westhoughton
  • Robert C. Curwen
  • John Morris aged 21 of 238, Leigh Road, Westhoughton
  • Joseph G. Battersby
  • Jehu Unsworth aged 43 of 42, Sloane Street, Westhoughton. married with four children aged 20, 11, 8 and 5
  • Peter Longworth aged 23 of 156, Willow Lane, Westhoughton
  • Josiah Lee aged 14 of the Lord Napier Hotel, Bolton
  • Robert Cope aged 19 of 24, Woodhouse Street, Westhoughton
  • Sam Thornley aged 25 of 2, Church Lane, Westhoughton
  • Thomas Worthington
  • Lewis Hodgkiss aged 15 of 53, Brackner Street, Chequerbent, Westhoughton
  • Joseph Jones of Leigh Street, Westhoughton, married with a 17 month old child
  • James Hurst of 56, Chorley Road, Westhoughton, married with eight children five of which lived at home aged 11, 10, 8, 6 and 3
  • Albert Shabley aged 17 of 30, Mabel Street, Westhoughton
  • Sam Hundy aged 39 of Church Road, Westhoughton, married with three children aged 14, 6, and
    20 months
  • Richard Jolly aged 25 of 18, Seddon Street, Westhoughton, married with a 13 month old child
  • James McDonald aged 27 of 6, Alice Fold, Westhoughton, married with six children
  • James Partington aged 25 of 27, Dobbs Brow, Westhoughton, married with three children aged 3, 2, and 9 months
  • Matthew McCabe aged 25 of 10, Smithy Street, Westhoughton
  • Andrew Lowe aged 23 of 15, Hurley Road, Westhoughton
  • Henry Holden of 30, Bury Lane, Atherton, Ben Riding of 19 Balfern Road
  • Westhoughton, James Edward Hogan aged 15 of 9, Robert Shaw Street, Westleigh
  • Matthew Seddon snr. of 29, Brandswood Street, Daubhill, Bolton, married with two children aged 18
    and 20
  • Thomas Gibbs of 16, Rainhill Road, Westhoughton
  • William Evans aged 26 of 21, Burnaby Street, Westhoughton, married with two children aged 2 and
    6 months
  • Thomas Green aged 23 of Market Street, Westhoughton
  • James Seddon of 9, Cemetery Street, Westhoughton, married with a 2 Year old child
  • Robert Roberts, he was a collier aged 22, of 32 Seddon Street, Westhoughton
  • Edward Houseman aged 15 of 47, Brackner Street, Chequerbent, Westhoughton
  • William Dawson aged 41 of Waterloo Street, Bolton married with two children aged 8 and 2
  • Fred Pemberton aged 18 of 117, Brackner Street, Chequerbent, Westhoughton
  • Fred Ratcliffe aged 21 of 144, Park Road, Westhoughton, Henry Price
  • Michael McCabe aged 20 of 10, Smithy Street, Westhoughton
  • Henry Partington
  • James Clarke aged 23 of 438, Ravenswood Terrace, Chequerbent, Westhoughton, single
  • One unnamed.


Those Recovered On The 27th December

  • James Miller aged 50 of 115, Manchester Road, Westhoughton
  • Sam Cowburn of 18, Mabel Street, Westhoughton, a widower with a 29 year old daughter
  • Matthew Seddon jnr. aged 24 of 29, Brandwood Street, Daubhill, Bolton
  • Walter Foster
  • Thomas Henry Coop of 26, Leigh Road, Westhoughton, widower with three children aged 5, 2, and
    5 weeks
  • John Lee of the Lord Napier Hotel, Bridgeman Street, Bolton, married with four children aged 12, 7, 4 and 3
  • Harold Pendlebury aged 15 of 1, Croft Street, Westhoughton
  • William E.G. Martland aged 17 of 88, Brackner Street, Chequerbent Westhoughton
  • James Horrocks aged 19 of 56, Bolton Road, Westhoughton.

Those Recovered On The 28th December

  • William Doxey of 691, Manchester Road, Westhoughton, married with no children
  • George Boardman aged 23 of 22, Seddon Street, Westhoughton.

Those Recovered On The 29th December

  • William Cowburn aged 42 of 62, Croston Street, Westhoughton, married with eight children, four of which were working and the rest 9, 8, 6, and 18 months
  • William Thomas aged 34 of 11, Waters Nook, Westhoughton married with two children aged 11, and 10
  • William Hesketh aged 27 of 11, Platt Lane, Westhoughton
  • Henry Blundell
  • James Radcliffe
  • John Higson of 7, Venice Street, Bolton, married with three children aged 15, 13 and 11
  • Thomas Smith aged 63 of 83, Chorley Road, married with four children aged 19, 13, 11 and 10
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