Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society has recently completed a research project into the names which appear on Kirkconnel's Miners Memorial.

The memorial lists the names of miners killed and the date of the accident but can give us little detail on the human story behind the events.

Click on the Surname to see further details
Year First Name Surname Date Cause
0 Sorry no accidents in January!
1872 WILLIAM COWAN Chimney collapse
1874 JOHN DARGAVEL Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1878 ARCHIBALD CRICHTON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1882 ROBERT LOVE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1893 ROBERT DUFF Surface - falling cage struck him a crushing blow on the head
1897 ARCHIBALD WILSON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1898 ALEXANDER STITT Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1899 JAMES BONE Stone fall
1902 JAMES MILLIGAN Stone fall
1904 ROBERT LOVE Explosion - delayed ignition
1904 WILLIAM SIM Explosion - frozen gelignite?
1907 ARCHIBALD TELFER Hutch - Crushed by runaway hutch
1908 JOHN HARKNESS
1908 ROBERT HENDERSON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1909 MARGARET HALLIDAY Run over by railway waggon
1911 WILLIAM BLACK Hutch - Crushed by runaway hutches on incline
1911 JAMES MURDOCH Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1913 WILLIAM WRIGHT Explosion - delayed ignition
1914 JOHN BLACK Explosion - Suffocated by afterdamp following explosion
1914 JOSEPH FARNSWORTH Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1915 DUNCAN BRODIE Explosion
1915 DAVID SHANKLAND Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1915 WILLIAM BLAIR Explosion
1916 JAMES HARRIS Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1917 WILLIAM STEVENSON Explosion - delayed ignition
1917 HENRY KENNY Explosion - delayed ignition
1917 WILLIAM PATERSON Hutch - Crushed by runaway hutch
1917 WILLIAM STEWART Stone - Crushed by fall of coal
1919 JOHN MCQUAT Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1920 MATTHEW LINDSAY Stone - Hit by stone fall
1920 WILLIAM MURRAY Suffocation
1922 JOHN BROWN Stone - Hit by stone fall
1923 NEIL CAIRNS Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1923 THOMAS CRICHTON Explosion
1923 WALTER NIVEN Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1924 DAVID LORIMER Cutting down tree
1924 JOHN MAINS Hutch - Travelling in runaway hutch
1924 THOMAS TARVIT Hutch - Travelling in runaway hutch
1924 ROBERT WILSON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1925 JAMES BROWN Explosion - delayed ignition
1926 CHARLES MCINTOSH Hutch - Crushed by hutch
1926 ROBERT REDMOND Explosion while preparing shot
1927 ANDREW BURNS Dragged round drum
1927 PETER EARLE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1927 JAMES MCARTHUR Hutch - runaway
1928 JOHN HANKINSON Electrocution
1928 DANIEL MCAVOY Explosion - delayed ignition
1928 DAVID CLELLAND Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1929 JOHN SMITH Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1930 CHARLES WOOD Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1930 ROBERT LORIMER Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1930 DAVID LITTLE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1930 ROBERT HYSLOP Electrocution
1930 THOMAS NICHOL Hutch - Crushed by hutches
1931 DAVID BLACK
1931 ROBERT STEWART Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1932 JAMES DUNCAN Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1932 CHARLES FERGUSON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1932 HUGH GOUDIE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1934 MICHAEL CARROLL Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1934 JAMES DARGAVEL Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1935 JAMES WALKER Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1935 ALAN MCFADZEAN Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1935 ROBERT ALLAN Hutch - Crushed by hutches against roof support
1935 JAMES ELLIOT Elevator chain which carries the dross buckets slipped and fell back into the hole, carrying the man with it
1935 HENRY MCGEE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1936 THOMAS PARKER Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1936 PETER BLACK Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1937 JOHN THIRLWELL Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1938 CHARLES WOOD Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1939 JAMES HUNTER Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1941 JOHN DOUGLAS Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1942 MARTIN MCGUINN Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1942 ROBERT CLELLAND Explosion -
1948 JOHN WIGHTMAN Electrocution
1950 KENNETH CAMPBELL Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1953 JAMES BURNS Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1953 THOMAS BENNIE Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1953 ROBERT WILSON Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1956 CHARLES GALLACHER Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1956 JOHN BAIRD Crushed by props
1959 JOHN MCMURDO Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1960 DAVID BOYD
1962 JAMES MCLEAN Stone - Crushed by fall of stone
1964 JAMES LAWRIE Jammed between a hutch and a mechanical shovel

Research: Mr Robert Britton, Rev David Melville, Derek Hex tall
Site Section compiled by S Nicol