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Mt Kembla Mine Disaster

                            - The Victims...

Aitken Henry, 23, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Aitken John, 47, married, father of 8, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Annesley Prosper James, 32, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla*

Bellis Richard, 62, (reported single & married), Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Best Thomas Sylvester, 48, married, father of 7, Miner, resting at Bowenfells*

Blackett Albert William, 22, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Blackett Robert George, 24, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Brasher William, 55, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla*

Bray William Varcoe, 38, married, father of 8, Miner, resting at Wollongong*

Brennan Michael James, 19, single, Wheeler. body not found*

Bryson John, 53, Miner, resting at Windy Gully - no next of kin

Carter Authur, 28, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Church Charles, 67, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Dixon George Henry, 22, married, father of 1, Wheeler, resting at Mount Kembla*

Doherty William, 29, single, Miner, resting at Albion Park

Dungey Francis, 46, married, father of 7, Day Deputy, resting at Mount Kembla

Dunning Frederick, 19, single, Wheeler, resting at Mount Kembla

Dunning Joseph, 24, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Dunning Thomas Richard, 46, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Egan Dennis, 20, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Egan Edward, 19, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Egan Michael, 29, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Egan Thomas, 32, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Filby William, 49, widower, father of 7, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Gallagher J. Daniel, 50, widower, resting at Windy Gully

Gallagher Edward, 38, married, father of 4, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Gallagher Michael, 45, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Gill Edward, 28, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Gleeson Stephen, 33, married, father of 5, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Hartley George Oliver, 22, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Head James, 32, widowed, father of 1, Miner, resting at Dapto

Healey Daniel, 32, single, Miner, resting at Dapto

Hewlett Alfred, 28, single, Shiftman, resting at Windy Gully

Hewlett William, 21, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Hitchens Jehu, 60, married, father of 2, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Howell Thomas, 36, separated, 1 child, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Hughes Thomas, 35, married, father of 1, Fitter, resting at Mount Kembla

Hume, Reynold, 27, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Hunt Percy Alexander, 42, married, father of 7, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Hunt Percy Spencer, 18, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Hunt William, 18, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

James Henry Robert, 33, married, father of 4, Miner, resting at Wollongong

James John Henry , 32, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Jeffrey John, 47, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Jones Robert, 21, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Kindred Thomas, 69, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Lane Richard Jnr., 17, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Lane Richard Snr., 44, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

MacCabe Henry Osborne, 45, married, father of 2, Engineer, resting at Wollongong

McCann Patrick, 33, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Wollongong

McDill James, 47, married, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

McLister Hugh, 24, single, Wheeler, resting at Windy Gully

Mclister James, 22, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

McMurray, William, 47, single, Night Deputy, resting at Windy Gully

Meurant Henry, 20, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Meurant William, 22, married, father of one, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Morris George, 34, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla*

Morrison Alexander, 15,single, Clipper, resting at Windy Gully

Morrison Henry, 17, single, Clipper, resting at Windy Gully

Morriss Thomas P, 26, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Morriss Walter Joseph, 52, married, 8 children, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Muir John, 18, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Muir Peter, 41, married, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Murphy John, 49, married, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Nees John George, 34, married, 6 children, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Nelson Jacob Alexander, 15, single, surface worker, resting at Windy Gully

Nelson William, 39, married, 5 children, Under Manager, resting at Windy Gully

Nixon William, 21, single, Wheeler, resting at Helensburgh

Peace Matthew, 38, married, father of 1, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Price William John, 26, married, father of 2, Wheeler, resting at Windy Gully

Purcell James Snr., 64, married, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Purcell James Jnr, 38, married, father of 3, Shiftman, resting at Wollongong

Purcell John, 33, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Purcell Patrick Francis, 45, married, father of 7, Engine Driver, resting at Wollongong

Purcell Thomas, 39, married, father of 6, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Rich Henry, 67, married, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Rich James Henry, 39, married, 6 children, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Robson Edward, 63, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Russell George, 20, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Ryan John, 33, married, 2 children, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Scott Daniel, 39, married, 7 children, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Silcock William, 14, single, Clipper, resting at Windy Gully *

Skilling Albert, 15, single, Clipper, resting at Mount Kembla

Smith Frederick, 14, single, Clipper, resting at Mount Kembla*

Stafford Claude Ramsay, 17, single, Clipper, resting at Mount Kembla

Stafford David Kembla, 17, single, Wheeler, resting at Mount Kembla

Stafford William, 25, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Stewart Francis, 38, single, Miner, resting at Wollongong

Thomas Richard, 26, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully
Tost Thomas, 30, single, Miner, resting at Windy Gully

Walker John, 16, single, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Walker Richard, 43, married, father of 6, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla

Walker William, 18, single, Clipper, resting at Mount Kembla

Wilkinson Joseph, 26, engaged, Miner, resting at Windy Gully*

Woodroof Charles, 33, married, Miner, resting at Wollongong - taken out alive but died 5 weeks later on the 8.9.1902

Youngman George, 37, married, father of 3, Miner, resting at Mount Kembla*

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*Details such as name, age, marital status and number of children may vary from newspaper and other published lists. Every effort is being made to confirm the correct information through more reputable birth, death and marriage records as well as through family historians. * = details confirmed

Number of children listed as those living at time of father's death.

Leave my blackened boots

by the cottage door.

Let every caller know

this was a working man's abode.

Verse on stone and above both from:

Conal Fitzpatrick in KEMBLA THE BOOK OF VOICES 2002

Mt Kembla Mine Disaster Verse by Conal Fitzpatrick 'Kembla The Book of Voices' 2002
Mt Kembla 1902 Disaster Coffins
Mt Kembla Mine site, miner's boot

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