Theatre Royal, Exeter: 1887 Fire Deaths

Note: This is a sub-section of Theatre Royal, Exeter

Extracted from The Times Newspaper of Wednesday 07th September 1887 which carried a list of those who died. (There are likely to be corrections and additions to this list later as it was composed immediately after the disaster).

Text in blue indicates editorial additions to The Times original report

'Below is a list of the missing, who number over 140 (actually 128 listed). The remains of 97 have been laid out, but 20 or 30 of these are beyond all possibility of recognition. The missing are-'

• James Bennellick, Coombe-street ( A Painter who died with his wife and two oldest children and left six more orphaned.)
• Mrs. Bennellick, Coombe-street
• son Bennellick, Coombe-street
• daughter Bennellick, Coombe-street
• Knight, Henry, Coombe-street
• John Taylor, Frog-street
• Jessie Hitt, 12 Smythen-street
• Thomas Henry Taverner, Holloway-street
• Mary Jane Lear, Lower North-street
• Mary Wood, Newtown
• Alfred Harris, Bartholomew-streets
• Edward Blatchley, West-street
• William Wood, Plantation-terrace
• Sarah Havill, Paul-street
• Thomas Warren, Paul-street
• Stephen Waldron, Paul-street
• John Westcott, Stepcote Hill
• May Jane Hitchcock, Frog-street
• James Froom, Combe-street
• John Lashbrooke Coombe-street
• Harriet Blatchley, Preston-street
• Joseph Milman, Coombe-street
• Edward Ley, Frog-street
• Margaret Ley, Frog-street
• Samuel Ley, Frog-street
• Lacy Ley, Frog-street
• William Sharland, Stepcote-hill
• Philip Baker, Ewins-lane
• Harry Belcher, Mary Arches-street
• Thomas Tucker, Preston-street
• George Hannaford, Exe Island
• Hannah Hannaford, Exe Island
• John Hannaford, Exe Island
• Christiana Lee, Coombe-street
• James Howard, Coombe-street
• William Page, Commercial-road (or Seage)
• John Partridge, Paris-street
• Edward Lyons, Ewins-lane
• James Cork, Commercial-road
• George Cornish, Commercial-road
• Annie Moore, 15 Clarence-street
• Maria Moore, 15 Clarence-street
• Thomas Cambell, 22 High-street
• John Brewer, Coombe-street
• Thomas Cann, Mary Arches-street
• Hannah Lake, Preston-street
• William Upham, Red Cow Village
• Ella Wiley, Lions' Holt
• William Henry Heard, Magdalen-road
• Ellis Heard, Red Cow Village
• Henry Pope, Crediton
• William Taylor, Silverton
• William Gray, Blackboy-road
• William Stevens, Sandford
• Harry Baggs, Sandford-street
• Harriette Piprell, Paul-street
• William Woolway, Cowick-street
• Thomas Hale, Alphington-road
• Minnie Milter, Paris-street (possibly Miller)
• Frederick Payne, Well-street
• John Baker, Summerland street
• Henry Gage, Holloway street
• Thomas Woodbury, Heavitree road
• James Samuel Parsons, Coffin’s court
• James Evans, Paul street
• John Lake, Preston-street
• Hannah Lake, Preston-street
• Charles Lake, Preston-street
• Charles Rice, West Quarter
• John Lusccombe, Coombe-street
• Sarah Spiller, Paris-street (Wife and daughter - of the Greyhound Inn.)
• Maud Spiller, Paris-street (Wife and daughter - of the Greyhound Inn.)
• Mary Ann Edworthy, Preston-street
• William James Tucker, Goldsmith-street
• William Hill, King-street
• William Berry, Pancras-lane
• Stephen Waldron, Pancras-lane
• Emma Shears, Clarence-street, St. Thomas
• Louisa Berry, Pancras-lane
• Charles Donoghue, Devonshire-place
• Joseph Pym, Cheeke-street
• Rosina Knight, Exe-street
• Henry Ball, Coombe-street
• Thomas Burns, Stepcote-hill
• Frederick Jackman, New North-road
• William Mardon, Stepcote-hill
• Hetty Willey, Lion's Holt
• John Harris, Paris-street
• Samuel Bastur, Rack-street
• Catherine Jane Baker, Sidwell-street
• Edward Snell, Fore-street
• Frederick Stephens, Well-street
• Joseph Dart, Coombe-street
• Harriet Dart, Coombe-street
• Jessie Squire, Church-street
• Edwin Tout, Mary Arches-street
• Mary Jane Teed, Summerland-street
• Edward Robins, Paris-street
• Elizabeth Davies, Bartholomew-street
• Annie Thorne, Bradninch
• Elizabeth Clapp, Shepcote-hill
• William Hunt, Portland-street
• George Hunt, Portland-street
• James Burrington, Heavitree
• Mary Lockyear, Rock-street
• Fanny Crowley, Coombe-street
• Robert Stevens, Mary Arches-street
• Henry Davey, Heavitree
• Sarah Davey, Heavitree
• Willie Davey, Heavitree
• Sarah Rawlings, West Quarter
• John Rawlings, West Quarter
• William Stevens, Sandford
• Charles Martin, St. Sidwell
• Maria Wellington, North-street
• Walter Rice, Bartholomew-street
• Arnista Woodrow, Pennsylvania
• Henry Beggs, Clifton-street, Newtown
• Albert Beer, 21, Lower North-street
• William Henry Heard, Pavilion-place, Magdalen-street
• J. W. Hitchman, Iron Bridge
• Mrs. Hitchman, Iron Bridge
• Frederick Cann, 119, Clifton-street
• Emily Spence, Ide
• Thomas Hill, Smythen-street
• John Elson, Heavitree
• Mr. Elson, Heavitree
• Sinclair Kelley, Cathedral-yard.
• Also missing are P. S. M. Gosset of Christ Church, Oxford and a friend named Templand. This is Percy Stuart Moncrieff Gossett and Robert Morgan Tamplin.

Detained in hospital:

• Machean, a boy of Victoria terrace, Victoria Road
• Chappall, an elderly man of Rack-street
• Lizzie Coombes, St. Sidwells
• Bessie and Emily Marks, sisters, Kings Arms, West street
• A man named Scantawood
• Mrs Mortimer, address unknown
• Thomas and Kate Coombes (man and wife), Weir Place
• William Partridge, Paris street
• William Parsons, Coffin’s Court
• John Branstone or Vanstone, Heavitree
• George Wood, Steward at the Country Club, formerly a porter at the hospital

The following 11 additions from the list in the Western Daily Press - Wednesday 07 September 1887

• William Pollard, Rack Street
• La Blan, Longbrook Street
• Bessie Skinner
• Alfred Gill, Crediton
• Oliver Parsons, Friernhay Street
• Albert Parsons, Friernhay Street
• Miss Cole, Bradninch
• John Balsom, 15 Bartholomew Street
• Elizabeth Mudge, Stepcote Hill
• Ernest Phillips, Ewing's Lane
• Polly Palk, Shaldon

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