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Accidental Deaths

On this page are the names and brief details of individuals who have either died as a result of their occupations or because of fatal accidents.

* next to a name indicates that the individual has a headstone in Saint Margaret's Churchyard.  Please note that the list below is not exhaustive.  There will be many more industrially related accidental deaths to add.  Please get in touch if you have any additional information.


ARROWSMITH (Daniel)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 28/05/1914
BATES (Charles) - Drowned in canal - May 1865
BEIGHTON (Thomas) - Rawmarsh coal mine - November 1874
BRAMELD (Charles Wager) - Drowned in River Don - 23/07/1855
BROADHEAD (David) - Drowned - 19/12/1904
BROOK (William)* – Thrybergh Hall Colliery – 23/01/1871
BROOKES (Herbert)* - Denaby Main Colliery - 01/07/1918
CARPENTER (George)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 16/07/1971
CLIFFE (Frederick) - Rawmarsh coal mine - November 1874
COLLINS (Charles)* – Manvers Main Colliery – 20/09/1900
COUSINS (Reuben) - Thrybergh Hall Colliery - November 1863
DEPLEDGE (Richard) - Railway accident - 16/07/1847
DREWETT (Tom)* - Wath Main Colliery - 02/04/1937
DYSON (Thomas) - Fell down a pit shaft - November 1858
ELLIOTT (Arthur)* - Denaby Main Colliery - 03/04/1947
EMMERSON (Frank)* - Drowned in canal - 11/08/1876
ENGLAND (Harold)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 04/06/1957
EYRE (John) - Drowned - May 1879
FOULKES (William Sonny)* - Kilnhurst Colliery - 19/12/1956
GILBERT (Douglas Charles)* - Yorkshire Tar Distilleries - 20/03/1958
GUEST (Harry) - Drowned - 14/07/1924
HARRISON (John) - Drowned - July 1856
HOBSON (Israel) - Lundhill Colliery - February 1857
HOBSON (John) - Lundhill Colliery - 19/02/1857
HUDSON* - Kilnhurst Colliery - 1943
HURST (James) - Fell down a pit shaft - November 1858
JACKSON (George)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 10/01/1905
JACKSON (William)* - Thrybergh Hall Colliery - 30/01/1936
JAQUES (William)* - Drowned at sea - 02/04/1913
JENNINGS (William)* - Denaby Main Colliery - 09/01/1957
JOHNSON (Elizabeth) - Drowned - March 1873
JOWITT (John) - Rawmarsh coal mine - November 1874
LAW (George)* - Midland Railway - 18/01/1920
LEE (Eric William)* - Barnbrough Main Colliery - 19/03/1943
LEE (Walter)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 06/03/1908
MARROW (John)* - Cadeby Colliery - 08/07/1912
NEEDHAM (Tom)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 18/01/1907
NOBLE (Herbert)* - 20/12/1915
OGDEN (Joseph) - Drowned - December 1856
OLIVER (Herbert)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 23/01/1936
OLIVER (Louis)* - Grand Central Railway - 10/04/1919
PALMER (Mary Jane) - Burned to death - 08/11/1894
PHILLIPS (William)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 05/01/1910
POPE (William) - Drowned - March 1873
ROBERTSON (Mary) - Burned to death - 07/11/1870
ROEBUCK (Joseph)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 15/06/1909
RYDER (Arthur)* - 23/07/1925
SCHOFIELD (George Laurence)* - Hickleton Main Colliery - 10/12/1938
SCHOFIELD (Leonard)* - Hickleton Main Colliery - 21/01/1945
SHAW (Benjamin)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 08/07/1936
SHEPHERD (Francis Edward)* - Kilnhurst Colliery - 20/04/1957
SHILLITO (Thomas) - Drowned in canal - September 1868
SMITH (Benjamin)* – Stubbin Colliery – 04/06/1910
SMITH (Josiah)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 12/03/1945
STEAD (Henry) - Rawmarsh coal mine - November 1874
STRINGER (Joseph) - Warren Vale Colliery - November 1863
THOMPSON (Herbert)* - Wath Main Colliery - 04/05/1917
TINGLE (Francis) - Drowned in Rockingham Pottery Reservoir - Circa August 1867
TILLOTSON (Beatrice) - Drowned in canal - 1902
TIPPING (John) - Drowned at Swinton Bridge - October 1870
TOMLINSON (Samuel) - Rawmarsh coal mine - November 1874
TRIPPETT (Ann) - Burned to death - October 1870
TURNER (Harry) - Drowned in canal - June 1870
TURPIN (Joseph)* – M. S. & L. Railway – 25/11/1886
VERNON (James)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 29/07/1909
WARD (Barrie)* - 08/04/1957
WARREN (Richard)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 25/05/1930
VICKERS (John Thomas) - Warren Vale Colliery -December 1863
WELLS (William)* - G.C. Railway - 09/03//1901
WELSH (Christopher)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 22/04/1922
WOFFINDEN (William)* - Manvers Main Colliery - 19/07/1957

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