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Squire Goodall was born in Kippax on 28th April 1861, and baptised two days later, exactly 35 years before the Peckfield Colliery Disaster. He was the son of a coal miner, Thomas Goodall (1821-1900) and Frances Clay (1823-1892) who married in Leeds in 1842. Squire married Susannah Goodall (1866-1937) on 6th April 1885, and the couple went on to have 10 children. Before Squire passed away in 1950, aged 89, he became friends with Samuel Cheesbrough, who also lived in Kippax. Samuel Cheesbrough used to write articles about Squire on the anniversary of the Peckfield Colliery Disaster:
Three years before Squire passed away, Samuel Cheesbrough wrote another article about the revival of coal mining in Kippax, which turned out to be short-lived, and featured Squire witnessing the new workings:
30th April 1896. The Peckfield Colliery Disaster at Micklefield 