Victoria Hall: A tribute to the children

We must never forget: The 182 children who lost their lives at Victoria Hall

An Echo tribute to the children who died 140 years ago today;

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Margaret Gray Adams, 10;

Charles John Ahlgren, 8;

Margaret Cook Allan, 7;

Michael Allan, 5; (siblings);

George Frederick Anderson, 7;

Jane Athey, 9;

Ruth Athey, 11; (siblings);

Mary Ann Ayre, 8;

Thomas Bailey, 8;

James Beale, 8;

Isabella Bell, 7;

James Bell, 6;

William George Bell, 8;

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Barbara Blakey, 10;

William Williams Bland, 10;

Robert William Booth, 9;

Newrick Briggs, 4;

William James Briggs, 9; (siblings);

John William Brodie, 8;

Emily Browell, 9;

Margaret Ellen Brown, 12;

Margaret Jane Stearn Brown, 4;

Dorothy Bradley Buglass, 3;

Thomas Butler, 9;

Charles Henry Carr, 8;

Jane Sarah Chandler, 6;

Thomas Henry Chandler, 10; (siblings);

Barker Ramsden Cogdon, 9;

Margaret Jane Conlin, 10;

George Henry Coulson, 8;

Andrew Coupland, 10;

John Curry, 8;

John Clark Davison, 6;

Martin Hutchinson Davison, 8;

Rosannah Davison, 6;

Charles John Dixon, 7;

John Edward Dixon, 7;

Charles Foster Dodds, 6;

Mary Downey, 7;

Charles Dring, 8;

John Robert Dring, 11;

Ilva Dumble, 7;

Mary Ann Duncan, 11;

Thomas Harper Dunn, 9;

Elizabeth Watt Elliott, 8;

James Oliver Elliott, 10; (siblings);

Charles Evans, 9;

John George Evans 10; (siblings);

James Fairgrieve, 10;

Peter Fairgrieve, 7; (siblings);

Catherine Falley, 9;

Cuthbert Morrison Fenwick, 6;

John Fenwick, 8;

Thomas William Fleming, 8;

George William Fox, 6;

Robert Fox, 9; (siblings);

William Rochester Fox, 9;

John George Gibson, 11;

John Robertson Gillies, 5;

Frederick William Graham, 11;

Thomas Graham, 7;

Robert Henry Gray, 7;

John Thomas Greener, 7;

Mary Ann Hall, 8;

Thomas Hall, 8;

Eliza Halliman, 8;

William Harker, 6;

Thomas Harrison, 9;

James Hayhurst, 7;

Cicely Henderson, 11;

James Henderson, 10;

Margaret Jane Henderson, 7; (siblings);

Joseph Henderson, 10;

Richard Henderson, 8; (siblings);

John Potts Hilton, 6;

Eveline Hines, 6;

William Arthur Hines, 8; (siblings);

Robert Hogg, 8;

John Howard, 6;

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Thomas Edward Hughes, 5;

Thomas Hughes, 7;

Laura Voke Hutchinson, 6;

Thomas Jefferson, 9;

Reginald Jopling Jewitt, 7;

William Johnson, 10;

William Kenny, 10;

Joseph Kemp, 8;

William George Kemp, 7;

Charles Henry Kerr, 6;

Alfred Edward Kirby, 10;

Alfred David Kirton, 5;

James Frederick Kirton, 9; (siblings)

Elizabeth Kirton, 9;

George Wright Knox, 8;

Johnson Lackenby, 4;

Charles Henry Lane, 10;

James William Lane, 6; (siblings);

Isabel Lawrence, 7;

John George Crouch Lawrence, 5; (siblings);

Edward Liddle, 8;

William Sinclair Longstaff, 7;

Catherine McCann, 8;

John William McKeever, 5;

Nellie McConkie, 10;

Fred Maddison, 5;

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Sarah Kennedy Maddison, 9; (siblings);

John Marley, 5;

James Meek, 8;

Alice Jane Metcalfe, 4;

Hannah Isabelle Milburn, 9;

Charles Alexander Miles, 9;

Emily Miller, 9;

William Miller, 11;

Alice Purchase Mills, 11;

Elizabeth Ann Mills, 12;

Frederick Mills, 7;

Richard Mills, 6; (siblings);

Emily Morris, 7;

John Morrison, 7;

Mary John Mews, 6;

Catherine Newton, 8;

George Stokell Nipper, 9;

John Walter Noble, 11;

Margaret Annie Orrock, 12;

Edward Paley, 6;

Mary Pagett, 10;

Alfred Patterson, 8;

Louise Isabella Paxton, 8;

William Peary, 9;

Mary Eleanor Pescod, 8;

William Henry Pescod, 10; (siblings);

Emmerson Phillipson, 11;

Ann Marie Peace, 7;

Ann Milner Pringle, 9;

Margaret Milner Pringle, 7; (siblings)

George Prior, 12;

John Thomas Proudfoot, 8;

Robert Ramsey, 11;

Mary Ann Redman,14;

Catherine Middlemiss Richmond, 7;

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Thomas Curry Ritson, 9;

Ann Patterson Robertson, 10;

Ethel Robertson, 7; (siblings);

Eleanor Robson, 6;

Margaret Roper, 8;

Elizabeth Rowell, 7;

Mary Helen Russell, 6;

William Rutherford, 7;

James Henry Scott, 9;

Eugenia Scrafton, 8;

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Walter Gibson Shipley, 10;

Abraham Smith Simey, 8;

William Simpson, 7;

George Slightham, 8;

William Slightham, 6; (siblings);

Caroline Smith, 5;

Elizabeth Snaith, 8;

George Snaith, 8;

Esteiner Solomon, 9;

Thomas Southern, 8;

Joseph Mushens Spence, 10;

John Thomas Swinney, 6;

Andrew Taylor, 4;

John James Taylor, 6;

Thomas Taylor (Toward), 9; (siblings);

Margaret Ann Thompson, 6;

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Margaret Thompson, 3;

Mary Ann Thompson, 11; (siblings);

Annie May Tomlinson, 4;

Ada Anne Topping, 11;

Nora Emily Topping, 6; (siblings);

Thomas Toward, 9;

Margaret Annie Turnbull, 8;

John George Thomas Venus, 7;

Grace Newton Vowell, 8;

Lilly Vowell, 4; (siblings);

Elizabeth Wanless, 7;

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Florence Edith Ward, 6;

Amy Hollings Watson, 13;

Annie Emily Hollings Watson, 10;

Robert Hollings Watson, 12; (siblings);

William Robson Weighill, 8;

Robert Wilkinson, 7;

John Henry Willan, 11;

John Robert Williamson, 11;

John James Wise, 10;

Andrew Wright, 7;

Mary Wright, 5;

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