Dear Listers and fellow PARRY/JONES researchers,
While going through the FHL Film #0104826 for the Parish of Whitford, I
discovered the following entries for burials of men burnt and killed in
the Mostyn Colliery. The fire took place on April 7, 1807 and the mass
burial of 24 men took place the next day, April 8, 1807. Five days
later, another two men who died from their wounds were buried. All men
were noted as residents of Tre Mostyn.
The following are all the men buried on April 8th, 1807.
"Burnt in Mostyn Colliery April 7, 1807 by a Noxious vapor called the
Fire Damp":
George LEWIS
Peter HUGHES and Thomas HUGHES - brothers
John HUGHES and Thomas HUGHES - brothers
John WILLIAMS and John WILLIAMS - father and son
Peter PARRY and John PARRY - brothers
Thomas THOMAS
John JONES
Robert WILSON
John HUGHES
William ROBERTS
John JONES ( this is a second entry for the same name but a different
man)
John WILLIAMS (unrelated to the other John WILLIAMS above)
Thomas JONES
Robert ROBERTS
John HUGHES -->
Hugh HUGHES --> father and sons
John HUGHES -->
John MORRIS
Thomas WILLIAMS
William LEWIS
Buried April 13, 1807
William HUGHES
Joth ( Jonathan?) PARRY both burnt as above.
I hope this information may help some of you find one of your lost
relatives.
Kindest regards.
Anne Clark-Stewart
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada