One hundred and fifty years ago, on the 2 September 1861, many Londoners were killed or injured when an excursion train collided with a ballast train near Kentish Town.
From contemporary newspaper articles, I have gleaned some of the names of the victims, many of whom came from Bow. Perhaps you have an ancestor among them.
Dead:
Elizabeth Allen, George Henry Bolton, Clara Clements, Emma/Sarah English, boy Greenwood, boy Greenwood, Edward Hill, Rhoda Bowler Oliver, Benjamin Rushbrooke, David/Richard Saunders, Mary Sellis, Eva Stacey, Charles Standing, Miss Westbury, John Yeoman.
Injured:
John Bailey, Joseph Birge, Joseph Bridges, Mrs Clements, Joseph Cox, Sarah Cox, Charles Cox*, Isaac Coxall, Mrs Drake, Jane Drake, James English, (?) English, Edward Essex, Sarah Essex*, Susannah Finnis, Jane Greenwood, Mrs Hemmings, Alice Hewitt, Thomas Albert Hewitt, John William Hewitt, Charles Albert Hewitt, Edward Hills, Mrs Holt, Barry Johnson, Mary Ann Matthews, Ann Phillpott, Benjamin Rushbrook, Richard Saunders, (?) Stacey, Henry Stacey, John Stacey, William Stewart, George Terry, Elizabeth Ward, Ann Ward, George Woodley, William Woodley, Mary Woodley, John Yeomans.
* May have died subsequently from injuries.
There are other names in these newspapers, of officials and witnesses etc and I may add those later; just in case the names are of interest to someone.
Regards O.
