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Bradwell: Ancient and Modern
A History of the Parish and of Incidents in the Hope Valley.
By Seth Evans (1912)
Transcriptions by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2013
Chapter XXXII.
SOME TRAGIC DEATHS - A REMARKABLE CHRONOLOGY.
A Remarkable Chronology.
There will be found compiled below from
various sources, in something like
chronological order, tragic events that have
occurred in towns and villages within a few
miles of Bradwell. Though far from
complete, the list will, so far as it goes,
doubtless be interesting to the inhabitants of the
places which they concern. It will be
noticed that a large proportion of the
fatalities during the last half century have
been in the quarries and limeworks of Dove
Holes, Peak Forest, and Millers Dale, and
a considerable number of other casualties
were during the construction of the
Midland main line in the early sixties, and the
Dore and Chinley line thirty years later.
Feb. 28th. Thomas Carnal, killed by
falling from the Torrs, Eyam Dale.
Sept. 12th. Samuel Ratcliffe, shot in
Highlow Wood by Martin Robinson, of
Offerton.
Feb. 4th. Elizabeth Trout, starved to
death in snow on Sir William.
Feb. 18th. John White, found dead in
Eyam Dale.
Dec. Woman starved to death near
Edale End.
Dec. Old man at Hope crushed into the
fire by a falling beam in his house and
roasted to death.
July 10. William Hibbert, killed by a
cart at Eyam.
. Man and woman starved to death in
snowstorm on Ronksley Moor, Derwent.
Jan. 26th. William Ainsworth, killed
in Litton Dale.
William Bradshaw, Castleton, drowned.
Feb. 5th. Stephen Broomhead, starved
to death in the snow on Eyam Moor.
May 16th. Hannah Millward, killed by
falling down Eyam Dale Rocks.
Nicholas Dakin, drowned at Castleton.
July 12th. Edward Mortin, drowned in
a well on Eyam Edge.
May. Lady and gentleman murdered
in the Winnatts, Castleton.
Rebecca Cock, drowned at Castleton.
Joseph Flinders, run over by a cart and
killed at Castleton.
Samuel Blackwell, killed by fall down
a rock in Eyam Dale.
June 27th. Thomas Brettener, burnt to
death in a lime kiln in Middleton Dale.
James Blackwell, killed by a horse at
Eyam.
Ellen Hall, killed by fall from a horse
at Castleton.
Oct. 12th. Joseph Bradshaw, killed by
a cart at Eyam.
Aug. 21st. Sarah Mills, drowned
herself at Eyam.
Aug. 30th. Wm. Furness, drowned in
a well at Eyam.
Dec. 30th. John Hadfield, found dead
in a field at Eyam.
Joseph Staveley, killed by falling from
a hay-loft at Castleton.
June 16th. William Beeley, killed by a
horse at Eyam.
Oct. 14th. Joseph Archer drowned in
Middleton Mill Dam.
Jan. 26th. Joseph Vernon drowned in
the Derwent near Hathersage.
May 24th. Mary Hall, Bretton, killed
by lightning.
Thomas Dain, carrier, of Castleton,
killed.
Sept. 8th. George Froggatt, died in a
ditch at Eyam.
Oct. 30th. Kirk's Cotton Mill, Bamford,
burnt down, damages £5,000.
July 14th. James Ridgeway, cut his
throat in Bretton Clough.
Aug. 2nd. Thomas Bagshaw, a child,
killed from some steps at Eyam.
John Hall, Castleton, committed
suicide.
Dec. 1st. Edmund Cocker, died suddenly
in Eyam Church.
July. John Ridgway, killed at Eyam.
Aug. 28th. Edward Dooley, musician,
died suddenly on Eyam Edge.
April 28th. Mary Brittlebank, Eyam.
burnt to death.
Joseph Marrison drowned at Castleton.
Feb. 1st. George Sheldon (47),
Tideswell prison keeper and tax collector,
starved to death In a snowstorm on
Tideswell Moors.
June 11th. Jonathan Fullwood, dropped
dead in Eyam Dale.
Longsden, found dead in Magclough.
Samuel Slack, Castleton, committed
suicide. Not read over at graveside.
William Shaw, killed by a bull at Eyam.
James Hall, found dead in a field at
Castleton.
June 26th. John Wildgoose found dead
at Green Lee Barn, Eyam.
Anthony Lingard, Tideswell, executed
for the murder of Hannah Oliver, at
Wardlow Miers, and gibbetted at
Wardlow.
Hannah Bocking (16), executed for
poisoning her cousin, Jane Grant, at
Litton Lane End.
Three workmen killed by collapse of
Cock Bridge, Ashopton.
July. William Wood, of Eyam,
murdered near Whaley Bridge.
Mary Unwin, Eyam, fell dead while
dancing at a public house.
July 20th. Wm. L.G. Bagshawe, Esq.,
Wormhill Hall, murdered by poachers
in the river Wye.
Alice Webster, Derwent, killed by horse
taking fright when crossing the river
Derwent and throwing her into the river.
Joseph Wyatt, killed by falling out of
his cart at Eyam.
Sarah Handley, drowned in a well at
Peak Forest.
Mary Ann Howe, burnt to death at
Tideswell.
Mytham Bridge washed down by a great
flood; present bridge built.
William Colman, Castleton, died
suddenly from apoplexy.
Mary Needham, Litton, found dead in
bed.
John Drabble, Foolow, burnt to death.
Samuel Priestley, Hathersage, found
dead en the Moors.
John Froggatt, Hope, whilst in drink
and Quarrelling, got into a rage and
fell dead.
Ann Hadfield, Edale, bled to death.
Thomas Gregory, Wardlow, fell dead.
John Henry Morten, Dove Holes, killed
by a cart.
John Vernon, Sparrowpit, killed on the
Peak Forest tramway.
William Furness, of Hathersage, killed
by an overdose of poison.
John Dakin, Castleton, run over and
killed by horse and cart.
William Darwent, Thornhill, found
dead in the road.
Polycarpe King, Derwent, fell dead.
Thomas Taylor, Wormhill, killed by a
horse and cart.
John Dakin, Castleton, run over and
killed by a horse and cart.
Wm. Howe, Bradwell, killed by a shot
in New Line Quarry, Dove Holes.
Thomas Fox, hung himself at
Ashopton.
Frances Hall, Hathersage, committed
suicide by hanging to bedpost.
Selina Skidmore, killed by a cart at
Wormhill.
William Farmer, Litton, killed on
Midland Railway construction.
Ann Wild, Tideswell, found dead in
bed.
Joseph Warhurst, Litton, hung
himself in a plantation on Tideswell Moor.
Richard Robinson, found drowned in
the River Wye at Cressbrook.
John Fox (62), killed in a quarry at
Dove Holes.
Sarah Garlick, Grindleford Bridge
burnt to death.
Sarah Ellen Hudson, Tideswell, found
dead in bed.
Samuel Stone, Litton, killed in Dove
Holes Tunnel making.
John White, Eyam, drowned in a tub
of water.
William Dakin (42), Tideswell, ruptured
blood vessel and died.
Henry Knowles, Litton, killed on
Midland Railway construction.
William Sutton, Tideswell, killed on
Midland Railway construction.
Thomas Birchenough, killed by a shot
in Warhurst's Quarry, Dove Holes
June 26th. Sarah Beeson, Ann Beeson,
John Beeson, and Ann Hampton, who
lived in a hut formed in the lime ashes
hillock in Dove Holes Dale, were killed
by the hut falling in. Owing to the
swelling of the hillock the sides closed
together, the roof fell in and all four
were buried alive and suffocated.
Richard Turner (62), Wardlow Miers
fell dead.
George Wilson (66), Tideswell, died
instantaneously.
John Charles Robinson, Tideswell,
accidentally suffocated.
Jonathan Wall, killed in a stone
quarry at Calver Sough.
Thomas Hibbert, Litton, accidentally
shot himself.
Mary Blackwell, Eyam, found dead in
bed.
Thomas Hibbert, accidentally drowned
in the Derwent at Calver Bridge
Thomas Kirk (68), Hope, died through
excessive drinking.
Thomas Somerset (45), Wardlow Miers,
killed by falling through the floor of
his hay-loft.
Jeremiah Brown (36), killed on the
Midland Railway works at Dove Holes.
James Jodrell (18), killed on the
Midland Railway works by a wagon at
Dove Holes.
John Wildgoose (37), killed on the
Midland Railway works at Dove Holes.
John Daffin (19), killed on the Midland
Railway works at Dove Holes.
John Wright (59), Thornhill Moor, died
through excessive drinking.
Richard Hartley (45), Dove Holes, killed
by excessive drinking.
Thomas Brough (59), Dove Holes, killed
by a fall of stone on Midland Railway.
Edith Barber (13), Castleton, thrown
out of cart and killed.
Henry Kay (18), Hathersage, killed by
a fall from a horse.
George Hall (60), Castleton, hung
himself whilst insane.
John Murphy (25), killed by a fall of
stone on the Midland Railway works,
Dove Holes.
Elizabeth Barnes (1), Dove Holes, died
from exposure and want.
Abraham Frude (55), Hathersage, fell
dead.
George Fisher (22), killed in a stone
quarry at Hathersage.
William Ashmore (58), killed by falling
out of a cart at Thornhill Moor.
James Taylor (77), Eyam, found dead
in bed.
Catherine Hobson (66), Hathersage, died
by the visitation of God.
Hannah Dakin (3), Tideswell, found
drowned.
Luke Needham (69), Wormhill, fell dead
through over-exertion
Mary Robinson (44), Foolow, died by
the visitation of God.
Martha Vaines (12), killed on the
railway at Peak Forest Station.
Alfred Fletcher (16), killed in a quarry
in Dove Holes Dale.
George Garlick (24), killed in a stone
quarry in Dove Holes Dale.
John Slinn (62), Grindleford Bridge,
died by the visitation of God.
Peter Unwin (66), Eyam, found dead in
bed.
Thomas Holme (56), Bamford, hung
himself whilst insane.
John Garlick (12), Grindleford Bridge.
(drowned when bathing).
Dinah Marsden (6), Grindleford Bridge,
burnt to death.
Thomas Drabble (75), Hathersage, died
in a fit of apoplexy.
William Swindell (70), Windmill, died
by the visitation of God.
Francis Palfreyman (84), Litton, when
returning home from prayer meeting
at Wesleyan Chapel, fell into a quarry
and was killed.
Sarah Ann Schofield (38), Hathersage
Booths, died instantaneously.
Elizabeth Elliott (81), Hathersage,
killed by falling downstairs.
Francis Millward (30), killed by falling
down rock at Millers Dale.
George Broomhead (13), Foolow, killed
by horse and cart.
Ann Shakespeare, Hathersage, found
dead in bed.
George Hibbs (50), Little Hucklow.
killed crossing railway at Peak Forest.
Joseph Fox, killed in stone quarry at
Dove Holes.
John Frith, killed in a stone quarry at
Dove Holes.
August 7th, Henry Vines, fell down rock
at Blackwell Mill Junction.
Nov. 5th, James Garside, killed in a
lime kiln at Potts and Jackson's, Dove
Holes.
March 31st, John Hayward, killed in a
lead mine at Peaks Hill, Peak Forest.
April 26th, John Storer, fell into a
lime kiln at Potts and Jackson's, Dove
Holes, and was burnt to ashes.
Nothing was found but his knife blade, a
few buttons, and one or two small
bones, and these were interred in a
cigar box in the Primitive Methodist
burial ground. Dove Holes.
June 7th. Edwin Taylor, killed in Chee
Tor Tunnel, Wormhill.
August 8th, Robert Potts fell dead in
the street at Dove Holes.
Nov. 24th, Sarah Fletcher died
instantaneously at Peak Forest.
January 22nd, Rachel Harrott died
suddenly at Dove Holes.
March 13th. Thomas Cartwright killed
whilst shunting at Millers Dale.
May 12th. Ellen Mullins, fell dead in
Dove Holes Dale.
Nov. 28th. an unknown man found
drowned in Barmoor Clough.
January 11th. Henry Lomas killed
whilst shunting at Bibbington, Dove
Holes.
May 3rd, William Catlin cut his throat
at Hargate Wall, Wormhil.
June 12th, Dr. Alfred Cottrill fell dead
in the road at Millers Dale.
March 22nd, George Clayton, killed in
Great Rocks Quarry, Peak Forest.
March 27th, Samuel Barber killed by
falling from a plank at Wainwright
Works, Peak Forest.
June 6th, Moses Sheldon found drowned
in Barmoor Clough.
Nov. 8th, Joseph Heath, killed by the
explosion of a pistol in Bibbington's
Smithy, Dove Holes.
January 12th, George Pearson killed
by a stone at Wainwright's Works,
Peak Forest.
April 1st, John Mosley shot himself in
a railway carriage near Millers Dale.
June 16th, Owen Evans hanged himself
in a barn at Perry Foot, Peak Forest.
July 27th. Thomas Derbyshire fell dead
at work at Dove Holes.
Sept. 10th, Benjamin Mycock, crushed
to death by waggons on the tramway
at Dove Holes.
March 11th, John Brown killed by a
train in Dove Holes Tunnel.
Oct. 8th, George Mellor killed by a
horse and cart in Barmoor Clough.
June 6th, Francis Garlick killed by
falling down cellar steps at Upper End.
June 6th, James Lomas crushed to
death by waggons at Beswick's, Peak
Forest Station.
August 4th, Thomas Hawley found dead
in a lane at Upper End.
Nov. 6th, Ada Dicken drowned in a
reservoir at Upper End.
In July, Robert Clayton (28), killed by
falling down Wainwright's quarry,
Peak Forest.
August 16th, John Kenyon (56),
Grindleford Bridge, fell dead in Marquis of
Granby, Bamford.
Sept. 8th, George Berrisford, run over
by a waggon at Bibbington's Works,
Dove Holes.
Oct. 22nd. John Hall, of Bradwell,
killed in M.S. and L. Quarries, Peak
Forest Station.
Nov. 23rd, James Dakin (57), Castleton,
died from hydrophobia caused by a
dog bite.
Dec. 1st, Annie Wheeldon, died
suddenly in bed at Higher Bibbington,
Dove Holes.
Dec. 12th. Mary Ball, found dead in
bed at Dove Holes.
Jan. 2nd, Martin Mullins (50), Dove
Holes, killed by falling down
Bibbington's Quarry, Dove Holes.
May 24th. John Bower, found dead in
bed at Laneside Farm, Peak Forest.
June 23rd, John Brough, killed by a
railway train at Dove Holes.
Oct. 5th. Walter Gould, Spring House,
Hope, killed by fall from his horse at
Hathersage.
Dec. 27th. George Platt, Bamford, found
dead in a cowhouse.
Dec. 27th, Samuel Austin (53), killed
by falling down Bibbington's quarry,
Dove Holes.
Jan. 1st, Isaac Wilson (40), killed by
falling over a wall at Hathersage
Booths, when “letting the new year
in”.
Jan. 4th, Joseph Longden (30), killed by
a fall of stone at Great Rocks
quarries, Peak Forest.
Jan. 5th, John Bagshawe (10),
Wormhill, fell when crossing a bridge over
the River Wye, and was drowned.
Jan. 12th, John Lomas (16), killed by
machinery in Beswick's blacksmith's
shop, Peak Dale.
Feb. 10th. John Bocking Darwent (74),
Thornhill, a well-known Primitive
Methodist local preacher, found dead
on the sofa.
Feb. 12th. James Goddard (36), killed
by a fall of stone in the Great Central
Quarries, Dove Holes.
April 9th, Robert Howe (54), Litton,
killed by a runaway horse at Millers
Dale.
May 26th, Thomas Fox (45), killed by
falling down the rock in Furness's
Quarry, Eyam Dale.
June 12th, Allen Walker ((35), Tideswell,
accidentally thrown down the shaft
at Norwood Colliery and killed.
Samuel Cock (40), found dead in bed at
Castleton.
July 26th, Hannah Longden, found dead
in her chair at the Clown Inn, Dove
Holes.
Aug. 17th, Sissie Gaunt, Yorkshire
Bridge Inn, Bamford, accidentally
poisoned by sucking lucifer matches.
Aug. 31st, William Boothby (14), Higher
Bibbington, Dove Holes, killed by
lightning whilst reading the Bible.
Five other persons injured.
December, Charles Hodkin (74), starved
to death on Froggatt Edge Moors.
Jan. 6th, William Hall (59), postmaster,
Castleton, died suddenly.
July 26th. Walter Hall Walker (17),
Riding House Farm, Derwent, killed
by an avalanche of snow falling upon
him whilst shepherding.
Oct. 15th. William Webb, Bamford,
found dead in bed.
Oct. 31st. John Hibbert (32), killed by a
waggon at Heathcott's quarry, Dove
Holes.
Nov. 26th, Rev. Charles Smith (56),
rector of Bamford, fell unconscious in
the Post Ofifioe, and died in a few
hours.
Dec. 2nd, Hugh Isaac Cooper (7), died
as a result of swallowing a halfpenny.
Feb. 4th, Joseph Harrott (20), shot in
Bibbington's quarry, Dove Holes.
May 18th, Samuel Simpson (11), killed
by a fall whilst bird nesting, at Dale
Head Farm, Tideswell.
May 14th, Eyre, of Great Hucklow,
killed on new railway works at Dore.
July 24th, Thomas Millward, Litton
Mill, killed on the railway at Millers
Dale.
Aug. 12th, Benjamin Clayton,
accidentally shot with his own gun in his
house on Tideswell Moor.
Nov. 5th, Richard Green, killed in
Grindleford Tunnel.
Jan. 31st. John Wm. Bradbury (13),
Tideswell, killed by falling down the
face of a quarry at Millers Dale.
March 7th, John Thomas Cooper (3i),
of Eyam, burnt to death.
March 8th, John Marsden, killed by a
fall of rock in a quarry at Peak Dale.
March 19th, Abraham Cooper, killed by
fall at a Peak Dale lime kiln.
March 26th. Wm. Bland, Farnley
Eyam, died suddenly.
March, Jonathan R. Hall, killed on
the L. and N.W. Railway, Dove Holes.
May 28th, John Daniel Hodson (31),
poisoned himself at the Snake Inn,
Woodlands.
June 18th, Sidney John Rosewell (28).
killed in Edale railway cutting.
July 8th, George Chappell (8), killed
by falling down rocks at Peak Forest.
Aug. 11th. William Slinn, killed by
machinery on Dore and Chinley
Railway works, Edale.
Sept 5th. John Higginson, water
bailiff, Mytham Bridge, fell dead on
the banks of the Derwent.
Oct. 29th. Thomas Hartle (34), Dove
Holes, killed on the railway at Manchester.
Jan 10th, Walter Mosby (28), killed in
Edale Tunnel on railway works.
Jan 24th, Mary Pickford, Litton, died
from exposure, consequential on a fall
during a fit.
Feb. 4th, Job Hodgkinson (67), run over
and killed in Peak Forest Tunnel.
February 22nd, Samuel Eyre, Great
Hucklow, burnt to death.
April 30th, John Marriner (32), cut his
throat at Hathersage.
Aug. 15th, James Storer fell into a
lime kiln and was burnt to death at
Dove Holes.
Sept. 17th, Thomas Smith (26), killed
by a shot in Great Rocks quarry.
Peak Forest.
Oct. 4th, Rev. A.B. Camm, Blackpool,
fell from a train in Peak Forest
Tunnel.
Nov. 19th, Martha Dawson, Cressbrook,
drowned herself.
Dec. 1st, Albert Schofield, killed by a
fall of clay from the side of the
cutting on the Dore and Chinley Railway
works at Padley Wood, Hathersage.
Dec. 3rd, Herbert Twiner crushed to
death between two waggons on
railway works at Padley Wood.
Dec. 8th, Ethelbert Swindell (23),
Bamford, killed at Oughtibridge Kailway
Station.
January 13th, Joseph King, killed by a
waggon at the railway works at
Padley Wood.
Feb. 24th, John Moulson, Peak Forest.
killed by an explosion in Ashwood
Dale Quarries.
Walter Gilbert, Tideswell, killed at
Edgeley Station, Stockport.
April 11th, Roger Barber (37), found
killed in Bibbington's Quarries, Dove
Holes.
April 22nd. Charles Ronksley (21),
Hathersage, killed on Dore and Chinley
Railway works.
May 2lst. James Millward (60), Stoney
Middleton, cut his throat.
May 30th. Anthony Potter (27),
Castleton, killed in Cowburn Tunnel, Edale.
June 3rd. Bernard Robinson,
Tideswell, fatally injured in Buxton Lime
Firm's quarries at Millers Dale.
June 16th. an unknown man, tatooed
“E.J.P.” found drowned at Peak
Forest.
June 16th. Whitfield Watson (30), run
over and killed by waggons on the new
railway works, Edale.
Nov. 8th. Isaac Watts, drowned whilst
crossing over stones in River Derwent,
Hathersage.
Nov. 10th. Mary Ann Hunstone (64),
Tideswell, committed suicide with a
razor.
Nov. 1st, James Fletcher, Peak Forest,
burnt to death at Beswick's Lime
Kilns.
Jan. 18th. William Tym, Hope, killed
by fall from a cart.
Jan. 22nd. Henry Jones, Hathersage,
killed by falling into a culvert at
Padley Saw Mills.
Jan. 22nd, John William Gerrard (14),
killed by a fall of refuse from a lime
kiln at Small Dale Lime Works, Peak
Forest.
May 18th. William Wainwright, killed
by wagonette at Hathersage.
May 27th. Harriett Townsend, drowned
in the river Wye at Litton.
June 16th. --- Edwards, killed by a
runaway horse on railway works at Edale,
at Dove Holes Station.
July 1st, William Barker (70), fell dead.
July 8th, Reuben Leech, Tideswell,
killed by a train on the railway at
Peak Forest.
Sept. 9th. Benjamin Mansbridge, killed
by a locomotive in Midland cutting
near Peak Forest.
Sept. 16th. Percival James Wallington,
drowned at Hill Farm, Wormhill.
Sept. 21st, Mary Alice Porter (2),
scalded to death in a bucket of hot
water at Great Rocks Farm,
Wormhill.
Sept. 26th, Gertrude Howe, Brook
Bottom, Tideswell, burnt to death through
dress catching fire at a candle.
Jan. 22nd. Joseph Eley (48), Millers
Dale, died suddenly.
Feb. 6th. Reginald Broom, accidentally
killed by a fall at Taddington.
March 7th, Mary Ann Cooper (18), Peak
Dale, drowned in Wye, Buxton.
March 21st, Jonathan Howe (34), shot
himself at Castleton.
May 26th. Mary Walker, a native of
Castleton, died very suddenly at
Bakewell.
June 14th. John Oag, [sic] killed on railway
at Edale.
July 5th. Henry Lawton (43), run over
and killed at Hope.
Oct. 24th, Martha Unwin, Stoney
Middleton, accidentally suffocated.
Dec. 20th. Dr. George Sibley Hicks, of
Eyam, died from an overdose of
laudanum.
March 17th. George Hardy (56),
Castleton, ruptured a blood vessel when
fighting with another man and died.
April 16th, John Cheetham (82),
formerly chemist, found dead on his house
floor at Hope.
July 18th, Eliaabeth Roebuck, found
killed in Dove Holes tunnel, having
fallen from a train.
July 25th. John Wilson (65), Thornhill,
cut his throat whilst temporarily
insane.
Aug. 5th, William Tingle, found dead
in Burbage Brook, Hathersage.
Sept. 23rd. George Maltby (35), crushed
to death by dray at Monsal Dale.
Oct. 7th, Fredk. Slack (26), Tideswell.
killed by jumping out of a trap when
horse was running away.
Nov. 18th. Mrs. Pearson, widow of Jos.
Pearson, of Little Hucklow, fell dead
at Upper End, Peak Dale.
Nov. 25th, Ann Wain, Eyam, burnt to
death.
July 2nd, Elizabeth Cooper (23), a
visitor from Manchester, killed by falling
from Peveril Castle into Cave Dale,
Castleton.
July 3rd, John Power, found dead on
the railway at Peak Forest.
October 11th. Mary Ellen Johnson,
drowned at Upper End, Peak Dale.
October 12th. Charles Neath, killed on
the L. & N.W. Railway at Dove Holes.
Nov. 5th. John Woollen found drowned
in the river Derwent near Hathersage.
Jan. 16th. Robert James Hallam, Stoney
Middleton, hung himself.
Jan. 31st. John Fletcher (43), Ivy House
Farm, Peak Forest, hung himself in a
barn.
Feb. 10th. James Bennett, Dove Holes,
killed by a fall of stone in “Victory”
Quarry.
March 9th. Thomas Wm. Ludlow (36).
sigmalman, Peak Forest, when
knocking twigs from telegraph wires, wall
collapsed and he was killed.
March 30th. James Shallcross (32),
found drowned in Litton Mill dam.
April 19th. John Ward West (66),
Bamford, died from heart disease after a
fall.
July 29th. Herbert Gilman (17), Litton
Mill, shot himself in Marple Hall Park.
Aug. 27th, Harry Leech, Tideswell,
killed by a fall of stone in Millers
Dale quarry.
Sept. 8th, Richard Brown Berry, a
Bolton visitor to Castleton, died very
suddenly.
Oct. 27th, Samuel Hodgkinson (48),
Tideswell, killed on the railway at
Millers Dale.
Nov. 19th. Abraham Yeomans, killed
by falling downstairs at Stoney
Middleton.
March 18th. James Ashmore, Tideswell,
killed by a fall of clay at Great Rocks
quarries, Peak Forest.
April 23rd, John Henry Mosley, killed
by being thrown from a cart at Millers
Dale.
July 5th, William Hoyle, Peak Forest,
died in Holding's quarry, Dove Holes.
July 5th. Edmund Bennett (29), shot in
Great Rocks quarry, Peak Forest.
Nov. 5th. Mary Hannah Vernon (39).
killed by falling downstairs at Dove
Holes.
April 14th. Elizabeth Grace Broome,
suffocated in bed with her parents, at
Poynton Cross Farm, Hucklow.
April 15th. George William Goodwin,
killed by fall of stone in a quarry at
Dove Holes.
June 15th, Mrs. James Carrington,
Edale, found dead in bed.
Aug. 25th. Mrs. Lily Middleton (25),
Bamford, found dead in bed.
Sept. 30th. Chas. Wm. Bowden, drowned
in Litton Mill dam.
Oct. 20th, James Lewis (62), fell dead at
Great Rocks kiln, Peak Forest.
Dec. 29th, William E.D. Palmer, killed
by an engine at Millers Dale.
Nov. 8th, Hugh Stafford (32), killed by
an explosion in Holderness quarry.
Dove Holes.
March 18th, funeral at Stocksbridge,
both on one day, of Charlotte Evans
and Wilfred Evans, mother and son,
formerly of Bradwell.
Mar. 26th, Esther Ellen Lee (3), scalded
to death in a bucket of hot water at
Dove Holes.
Sept. 6th. Esther Mycock, burnt to
death at Taddington.
Oct 15th. Martha Green, killed by a
fall at Wormhill.
Dec. 23rd. Gladys Broome (1½), crushed
to death by a cow at Hucklow.
Jan. 9th. George Jackson, Peak Dale,
found hanged.
Mar. 15th. Samuel Booth, Hathersage.
found hanged.
May 12th. Samuel Gibson, Litton, found
hanged.
May 22nd. George Jackson, Tideswell,
drowned himself at Peak Forest.
Aug. 13th, George Hodkin (58), fell dead
in a quarry at Peak Forest.
Oct. 12th. Emily Sellars, and her
daughter, Emily, found drowned on the Hall
Farm, Litton.
Jan. 10th. Joseph Walton (60), Tideswell,
fell back in his chair and died.
Jan. 13th. John Jackson, John Flint
and Henry Swindells, of Tideswell,
knocked down and killed by an engine
when walking on the railway at
Millers Dale.
Jan. 13th, John Samuel Berrisford (18),
killed by a wagon at Bibbington's
Works, Dove Holes.
Mar. 12th, Isaac Hadfield, killed by an
engine at Great Central Railway Co.'s
quarry, Peak Dale.
May 12th. Annie Gertrude Hepworth,
Tideswell, strangled herself.
July 17th, Charles Smith Herrington,
killed by a fall at Eyam.
Aug. 20th, William Greenhalgh, killed
by a pole falling on his head at
Tideswell Gas Works.
Feb. 12th, William Brewster, killed by
a wagon running down an incline at
Bole Hill Quarries, Hathersage.
April 23rd, A child, named Robinson,
suffocated in bed with its parents at
Stoney Middleton.
May 1st. George Furness, drowned in
the Delph, at Eyam.
May 4th. John Webster, killed by a
train, at Peak Forest Station.
Aug. 31st. John Marsh Robinson (45),
thrown from his horse and killed at
Bamford.
Sept. 6th. John Hill, killed by a fall in
New Lime quarry, Peak Forest.
Oct. 14th. Henry Watson (47), killed by
fall from a hay-loft at Castleton.
May 17th. John Robinson Gregory hung
himself at Hathersage.
May 20th, Matilda Rawles (26), found
dead on the house floor at Hope.
June 25th, John Evans killed by a fall
at Derwent Valley Water Board's
quarry, Hathersage.
July 4th. Charles Henry Bullard, killed
by a crane balance weight falling upon
him at the quarries, Hathersage.
July 13th. William Allen Guthrie, found
drowned in the river Derwent at
Hathersage.
July 8th, Frederick Garlick, killed by
an explosion of cheddite in
Bibbington's quarry, Dove Holes.
Oct. 19th, Sarah Dean, Tideswell, died
suddenly during an operation under
chloroform.
Nov. 22nd, John Brown (55), found
starved to death at Bamford.
Jan. 2nd, An unknown man found
starved to death on Hathersage Moors.
Jan. 24th, Jane Ann Blackwell, killed
by a fall at Tideswell.
June 23rd, Herbert Lomas, Litton,
drowned himself.
July 4th. James Sheldon, hang himself
at Hathersage.
Aug. 26th. Mary Elizabeth Jones (21).
drowned herself at Bamford.
Dec. 9th. an unknown man hung
himself at Bamford.
June 12th. Thomas Barker (37),
drowned himself at Bamford.
Sept. 10th. Andrew Henry Dungworth,
poisoned himself at Hathersage.
Dec. 4th. James Allcock (3), burnt to
death at Dove Holes.
Jan. 2nd. William Wilson, hung
himself at Peak Dale.
Mar. 6th. Edward Kirk, killed by being
thrown from a cart at Dove Holes.
Aug. 12th. Joseph Vernon (54),
Sparrowpit, killed by an explosion in the
quarry at Peak Forest.
Sent 4th. John Thomas Heath and
William Fletcher, blown to pieces by
an explosion of gunpowder whilst
blasting in Great Rocks quarries, Peak
Dale.
Nov. 4th, Thomas Gibson, killed by a
fall of stone in Great Rocks quarry.
Peak Dale.
Nov. 12th, Joseph Martin, killed by a
train on the railway at Peak Forest.
March 11th. Reggie Walker (2), burnt
to death at Tideswell.
April 21st, Robert How (81), barmaster,
of Castleton, died from an accidental
fall.
July 20th, Thomas Gould, drowned
whilst fishing in the river Derwent at
Hathersage.
Aug. 7th. an unknown man jumped in
front of a train at Thornhill and was
cut to pieces.
Aug. 27th. Kathleen Mary Revill (3),
drowned in the Hay Brook,
Hathersage.
Nov. 26th. Arthur Bingham (2), burnt
to death at Peak Dale.
Jan. 1st. Samuel Blackwell, died from
concussion of the brain at Eyam.
Jan. 5th. Tom Peel, was felling a tree
at Hathersage, when a branch fell
upon him and he was killed.
Jan. 18th. M. Strickland accidentally
suffocated at Hathersage.
Feb. 12th. John Iredale, killed by
falling downstairs at Tideswell.
March 13th. Isaac Makinson strangled
himself at Hathersage.
April 7th. Edith Annie Rowbotham (3),
drowned at Bamford.
April 20th. Hannah Bramwell, death
accelerated by a fall at Tideswell.
Aug. 12th. Archibald Jerram drowned
whilst bathing in the river Derwent
at Froggatt.
Aug. 9th. John Wells, killed in a
collision of a bogey and engine at Bole
Hill quarry, Hathersage.
Mar. 11th. Teresa Biggin (11), killed by
a fall at Hathersage.
April 21st. William Garlick, killed by
a fall of stone in the Buxton Lime
quarries, Peak Dale.
April 27th. Fred Vernon, shot in an
explosion whilst blasting at Dove Holes.
June 11th. Annie Furness, strangled
herself whilst not responsible for her
actions at Tideswell.
Sept. 29th. Robert Bingham, Peak Dale,
died from blood poisoning from an
injury to his fingers whilst quarrying.
Oct. 22nd. Robert Cotterill (58), fell
dead from his chair at Bamford.
Dec. 23rd. Mary Jackson cut her throat
at Eyam.
Feb. 20th. Thomas Beverley, Castleton,
cut his throat in a stable during
temporary insanity.
May 1st. Hamlet Tattersall,
electrocuted at Great Rocks Siding, Peak
Dale.
June 23rd. Blanche Wilkin cut her
throat during insanity at Hathersage.
In June. William Hulley (60), killed by
a waggon at Holdernesa lime works.
Dove Holes.
June 14th. William Hawley Mycock,
killed at Calton Hill quarry,
Taddington.
Aug. 25th. Herbert Brooks killed by a
waggon at Perseverance Lime Works,
Peak Dale, Dove Holes.
Oct. 16th. Andrew John Roche (63),
steward for the Duke of Norfolk, fell
into the River Derwent and died from
exposure.
Dec. Mrs. Amelia Seaman (83),
Tideswell, died from shock after accidental
burns.
OCR/transcript by Rosemary Lockie in February 2013.
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