1886 – Charles Firth
Charles Firth was born in Great & Little Preston in 1826. 1841 Census:- Charles age 17 occupation Engineman, is living at home with his parents, George Firth age 45 occupation…
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Charles Firth was born in Great & Little Preston in 1826. 1841 Census:- Charles age 17 occupation Engineman, is living at home with his parents, George Firth age 45 occupation…
John Pickersgill was born in about 1841.John married Ann Rhodes (from Garforth) on September 25th 1865 at South Milford.On the 1871 census he was living at Kippax with his wife…
Joseph Paver Wigglesworth was born in Kippax in about 1854.On the 1861 census he is shown to be 7 years old and living with his parents in Allerton Bywater.He was…
Thomas Clough was 19 years old when he was killed by a fall of coal at the Locke & Co. Kippax colliery on the 29th April 1867. Mick
John Biscomb was born in Kippax in 1832. He was baptised on March 4th 1832 at Kippax church.He was killed at the Locke & Co. Kippax colliery on 9th January…
1855 – Robert BiscombRobert Biscomb was born in 1923 He was killed underground along with Joseph Pickard on the 13th January 1855 at the Locke & Co. Kippax colliery when…
Joseph Pickard was born in Kippax in 1812. He was killed on the 13th January 1855 at Locke & Co. Kippax colliery along with Robert Biscomb when an underground boiler…