This is the most up to date list (as of February 2023) of the eighteen workers who were killed when Islington Mill collapsed on 13 October 1824, given in order of age from youngest to oldest.

Supplementary information is included where known, such as profession and official cause of cause of death as quoted from burial records.

A map of significant locations such as home address and burial places of the workers can be viewed at this link.

Each person listed here has at least one official piece of documentation verifying their connection to the original accident.

Those in italics have yet to be verified. 

CATHERINE SCHOFIELD, aged 10
Resident at the now vanished Windsor Bridge area. Catherine’s age is incorrectly given as 11 in the original report. We have both a baptism and burial record for Catherine. Her father’s profession is given as ‘lath cleaner’.

THOMAS CLARK, aged 11

WILLIAM KINSEY, aged 11

MARY ANN FORSYTH, aged 14

JAMES GREAVES, aged 14

RICHMAL GREAVES, aged 16
Richmal’s unusual name caused her to be misgendered asa boy on one report and incorrectly recorded as ‘Richmond’ on another, alerting us to the fact that errors of transcription were to be common. Read more about how that played a part in our research here.

MARY MARTIN, 16 ?

ELIZABETH JONES, aged 17

SUSANNAH HAMBLETON, aged 18, ‘Cause of Death: Killed by Factory falling‘

ELLEN ASHTON, aged 20, ‘died by the falling in of Goughs Factory Oldfield Road Salford‘

FANNY SMITH, aged 27, ‘Killed by Factory falling‘

ELIZABETH SMITH, aged 29, ‘Reeler’, ‘Accidental death‘ MARY ORMES, 30 ?

ANN KAY, aged 31, ‘Reeler’
Ann’s grave is recorded at FindAGrave.

ALICE ALLUM, aged 32

ELIZABETH WILSON, aged 35

JANE ASHTON, aged 55, ‘accidental Death by the falling in of Goughs Factory Oldfield Road Salford‘

BETTY SMITH, 60 ?

The burial records below include 4 of the 18 workers who died at Islington Mill. They are the final four names listed on the right hand leaf. 

Source: Ancestry.com