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Researched by John Lumsdon
Talke o' the Hill Explosion Dec 13th 1866
Some 150 men and boys went into the Big Banbury Pit.

Talk o' th' Hill 1873 and Talk o' the Hill Explosion 1901


List of Deaths at Talke Explosion 1866.

There is no perfectly reliable record in existence therefore it is not to be implicitly relied upon.

1. Nicholas Fletcher
leaves widow and 3 children
2. Edward Dutton
leaves widow and 4 children
3. George Hickson
leaves widow and 4 children
4. Samual Kenyon
leaves widow and 4 children
5. Thomas Knowels
leaves widow and 6 children
6. Joseph Griffiths
 
7. Charles Dutton
single son of Edward Dutton
8. James Rigby
a boy
9. Walter Fletcher
a boy
10. James Billington
 
11. John Oldfield
supported his mother
12. Peter Twiss
supported mother who has 2 young children
13. George Reeves
a youth
14. John Booth
part supporter of his widowed mother
15. John Vernon
leaves widow and 1 child
16. John Breeze
a boy part supporter of his mother
17. Fred Bailey
single
18. John Carter
 
19. William Liptrott
 
20. William Evans
leaves widow and 1 child
21. David Rigby
a boy helped to support father mother and 6 children
22. Edward Clewes
 
23. Henry Denby
a boy
24. George Boughey
 
25. John Macbeth
a boy
26. John Bossom
a boy
27. William Cotton
 
28. Thomas Greenall
 
29. John Clewes
 
30. Edmund Smith
helped support his father who has 6 children
31. John Moulton
single
32. Edward Denby
leaves widow and 1 child
33. John Billington
 
34. William Archer
a boy
35. Thomas Berisford
 
36. Francis Broughton
 
37. Thomas Murray
 
38. Thomas Oldfield
supported his mother
39. William Stanley
leaves widow no family
40. Joseph Matthews
 
41. William Washington
single
42. William Fairley
leave widow and 1 child
43. William Jenkinson
leaves widow and 2 children
44. Thomas Jenkinson
leaves widow and 4 children
45. Daniel Ball
leaves widow and 1 child also supports mother who has 4 children
46. John Smith  
47. Michael Ashmore
 
48. Fred Colclough
leaves widow and 2 children
49. Joseph Yoxall
leave widow and 3 children
50. William Clewes
 
51. Matthew Sherratt
single
52. E. Cumberwell
leaves paralysed father
53. Noah Taylor
leaves widow and family
54. James Thomson
leaves widow
55. Samual Slater
leaves widowed mother age 80
56. Geroge Kent
 
57. Noah Billington
leaves widow and 2 children
58. William Ratcliffe
leaves widow and 4 children
59. James Spronson
leaves widow and 4 children
60. John Heart
single supports widowed mother
61. Robert Phillips
leaves widow
62. James Johnson
leaves widow and 4 children
63. Samual Cartlidge
leaves widow and 1 child
64. William Robinson
single
65. Henry Clitchlow
 
66. Charles Lea
supports mother and father who have 5 children
67. William Knapper
68. John Beddis
25, single, son of William and Harriet Beddis
69. Thomas Griffiths
20, son of George and Marcy Griffiths, leaves widow and 2 children
70. Alf Tomkinson
leaves widow and 4 children
71. Thomas Poynton
 
72. Alan Turncock
a boy
73. Levi Cartwright
leaves widow and 3 children
74. David Eardley
leaves widow and 4 children
75. William Young
leaves widow and 4 children
76. William Booth
single part support of widowed mother
77. John Brassington
 
78. John Whitney
leaves widow and 3 children
79. John Daniel
helped support mother and father
80. John Holden
 
81. Edward Holden
 
82. John Grindley
single
83. Sam Harrison
leaves widow and 3 children
84. Enoch
 
85. Robert Hough
leaves widow and 2 children
86. Thomas Stretch
helped to support mother and father
87. Joseph Lismore
leaves widow
88. James Boughey
leaves widow and 4 children
89. Sam Johnson
leaves widow
90. Sam Billington  

Adenda

There is no perfectly reliable record in existence.
This list was handed in as an accurate return, but the addenda from other lists,
also considered authoritative, shows that it is not to be implicitly relied upon.

Samual Bentley
married no family
John Madders
from Audley
David Evans
married and family
Peter Frost
from Talke
Frank Brereton
a boy
William Frost
from Talke
Daniel Johnson
 
George Kent
 
Michael Fletcher
 
Ralph Henshall
 
Joseph Browning
 
Thomas Daniells
 
William Stanley
leaves widow and 3 children
William Jobling  
Ephraim Smith father cripple and mother poor

Thanks to Roy Beddis for information on John Beddis and Thomas Griffiths



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