Kirkconnel Miners Memorial

To the memory of the men of  Upper Nithsdale who in pursuance of their calling lost their lives in the collieries 1872 - 1969
Others also through injuries and mining dust were hastened to an early grave
They served their day unseen unsung
In caverns of the deep
Till early laid the mools among
They through the ages sleep
Lest We Forget

Names:

The dead of Fauldhead Collieries
James Bone 1899
Thomas Milligan 1902
John Harkness 1908
Margaret Halliday 1909
William Black 1911
William Wright 1913
John Black 1914
Duncan Brodie 1914
David Shankland 1915
Henry Kenny 1917
William Paterson 1917
Matthew Lindsay 1920
James Brown 1925
John Brown 1921
Walter Niven 1923
Thomas Tervit 1924
John Main 1924
Robert Wilson 1925
Roddy Redmond 1926
Mr McIntosh 1926
Andrew Burns 1927
Peter Earl 1927
Daniel McAvoy 1928
John Hankinson 1928
John Smith 1929
David Clelland 1929*
Thomas Nicol 1930
David Little 1930
Charles Wood 1930

Robert Hyslop 1930
Robert Stewart 1931
David Black 1931
James Duncan 1932
Charles Fergusson 1932
Hugh Goldie 1932
Michael Carroll 1934
James Dargavel 1934
Robert Allan 1935
Henry McGee 1935



Fauldhead contd
James Walker 1935
Peter Black 1936
Thomas Parker 1936
Charles Wood 1938
Marhn McGuinn 1942
Robert Clelland 1942
John Wightman 1948
Kenneth Campbell 1950
Thomas Bennie 1953
Robert Wilson 1953
Charles Gallagher 1956
James Baird 1956
James McLean 1962
James Lawrie 1964

Sanquhar Collieries
William Cowan 1872
Archibald Crichton 1878
Robert Duff 1893
Archibald Wilson 1897
Alexander Stitt 1898
Robert Love 1904
Archibald Telfer 1907
Robert Henderson 1908
James Murdoch 1911
James Harris 1916
William Stewart 1917
John McQuat 1919
William Murray 1920
David Lorimer 1924
Neil Cairns 1925
Robert Lorimer 1930
Allen McFadzean 1935
James Elliot 1935
John Thirlwell 1937
James Hunter 1938
James Burns 1953
James McArthur 1928
Thomas Crichton 1923
John Douglas 1941
John McMurdo 1959
David Boyd **

* To date, we have not been able to locate a death certificate or newspaper report matching this fatality
**This name is listed on the memorial with no date - we have been unable to locate further details