I'm afraid the post didn't appear. Apologies for the delay in replying, I got caught up with other things and in all honesty forgot I hadn't replied yet.
The Samuel Cornfield who was killed in the explosion was the 1st cousin of my husband's 4x grt grandfather, there are lots of Samuels in the tree and I get confused between them when trying to do from memory. Samuel's first cousin my husband's direct ancestor worked in the same place and was later involved in a boiler explosion and Burchills Hall Iron works in 1880. I think that's how I got mixed up.
Back to Samuel, as far as I am aware the company paid no money to the widows and orphans however the local press did raise some money that was then distributed amongst the relatives of the survivors.
I am stil working on the family so plenty of chance to find more. I am leaving RC but if you pm me your email I will send you the relevant info if I have any luck.
