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Claim for loss of property #4269 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4269 John Lee Steel Roller Owlerton Rolling Mill  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Personal   Wages for Men clearing Mud from the surface of premises        
    William Gosnay 18 days @ 3/6 per day £3 3s    
    William Brown 12 days 1/- per day   12s    
    Wood wedges 10/- Old Metal 10 hundredweights @ 2/6 25/- £1 15s    
    William Gosnay Garden        
    To Pitching Goit Bottoms to the Shuttles 14 yards at 4/- £2 16s    
    Wheelbarrows lost   12s    
    To Loss of Time of Mill and in Trade in consequence of the late Flood £240      
    George Tyler 17 days 3/6 per day £2 19s 6d  
    John Clarke 20 days 3/6 per day £3 10s    
    James Furniss 18 days 3/6 per day £3 3s    
    1 Horse removing Rubbish 4 weeks £4      
    16 Iron Bucket plates for water Wheels lost @ 10/- £8      
    12 Wood Starts @ 3/- each £1 16s    
    36 Screw Bolts 18/- 10 Iron grate Bars 7/6 £1 5s 6d  
    Ashlar Stone for side of Water Wheel £1 1s    
    Large door for Arch in Wall £2 2s    
    2 Weir Boards 10/- 1 wash board 6/- Iron roll to Shuttle 10/- £1 6s    
    Dam cleansing out £5      
    Dam Bank repairing in paddock £1 10s    
    Lime in Mill Yard 2 Tons 12/- 10 Loads of Broken Stone 15/- £1 7s    
    6 Loads of Sand 8/- Mill Yard repairing 5/-   13s    
    22 Tons of Coal washed away @ 8/6 Ton £9 7s    
    1 Pail 2/6 Steel lost 2 hundredweights 2 quarters 0 pounds @ 25/ hundredweight £3 5s    
    Steel spoiled with water 3 hundredweights 0 quarters 0 pounds @ 12/6 hundredweight £1 7s 6d  
    2 Gallons sweet oil 8/8 3 Stone of Tallow @ 6/6 = 19/6 £1 8s 2d  
    Oil Cask 10/- 6 Pairs of Tongs 20 pounds 6/8   16s 8d  
    New Lock 2/6 Lamp Cotton 2/-   4s 6d  
    Rivetting Iron 2/- Turning Tools 6/-   8s    
    1 Pair of Circular Smiths Bellows damaged £1 10s    
    Dam Bank at far side of the Mill damaged £1      
    3 Ashlar stones in Water Wheel race £1      
    Bridge across the Shuttles £1      
    35 Currant trees damaged @ 6d   17s 6d  
    Garden on North side of Mill Soil gone   10s    
    James Furniss Garden 40 Gooseberry and Currant trees 6d £1      
    Flower Roots and Rose Trees   7s    
    6 Gooseberry Trees 3/- 6 raspberry trees 3/-   6s    
    Lot of Flower roots 4/- 12 Wallflowers 3/-   7s    
    15 yards crocuses 1/3 20 yards of Button roots 1/8   2s 11d  
    Glass frame 5 feet 6 inches square   10s    
    12 Rose Trees 6d each 12 Carnations 3d each   9s    
    2 Double Hollyhocks 2/- 2 Pink roots 6d   2s 6d  
    1 Lily 4d 20 Sweet William Roots @ 2d each   3s 8d  
    3 Score Cabbage plants   1s 6d  
    Shuttles repairing £5      
    Goit clearing of Mud £8      
    Cross Shuttles repairing £1 7s    
    New Shuttle Start   3s    
    Banks repairing on both sides of Goit £3 3s    
    Old Ashlar replacing on Dam side   8s 6d  
      £331"6"5        
    Interest upon 331"6"5 at 5 per cent for 7 months £9 13s 1d  
    George Hawksleys charge £5      
        £345 9s 6d  
  Certificate Granted
25 February 1865
Assessed by Consent at £87 11s 10d  

Note: Total in register is incorrect [£345.19.6]

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