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Claim for loss of property #3310 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  3310 Robert Wilkinson Grinder Owlerton  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Damage to a Garden at Burrow Lee - Owlerton of which Claimant is both Owner & Occupier   Contents of Garden 600 Square Yards        
    Garden Door and Posts washed away £1      
    Fence Wall 7 1/5 Roods, building @ 5/6 £1 19s 8d  
    Stone required for 4 Roods & Coping for the whole, say 24 Loads @ 2/6 £3      
    Lime for ditto   3s    
    12 Yards of Edge Stones   2s    
    14 Score Cabbage plants & Labour   7s    
    3 Dozen Gooseberry Trees, all washed away @ 4d   12s    
    3 Dozen Current Trees, all washed away @ 3d   9s    
    2 Strawberry Beds, 32 Square Yards gone @ 3d   8s    
    14 Yards Strawberry Beds, part gone   2s    
    2 Score Flower Roots & Shrubs   5s    
    Hot Frame, 3 Lights   6s    
    3 Fruit Trees, washed down & damaged   3s    
    76 Roots of Rasps, broken & damaged   3s    
    Soil washed off 150 Square Yards @ £1 11s 3d  
    Deficiency and loss and of this year's Crop £1      
    Bed of Herbs destroyed   3s    
    Labour Cleaning Rubbish off & Digging   10s    
    Robert Lowe's charge, Estimating, filling Papers, etc.   10s 6d  
    Well to clean out 3 yards deep   5s    
        £12 19s 5d  
  Certificate Granted
20 May 1865
Assessed by Agreement together with Amended Claim including Costs at £16      

Note: Lines 16 & 17 of particulars are transcribed exactly as written in register. (CD)

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