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Claim for loss of property #4957 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  4957 John Short Warehouseman and Manager Mills' Houses, Neepsend, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Damage to Personal Property   White Metal Inkstand 1/9 6 Long Window Blinds 14/7½   16s 4½d  
    Wooden Bowl 2/- 2 White Metal Candlesticks 3/6   5s 6d  
    Loss of and damage to the following articles        
    To Bill previously delivered to Water Company and which have kept no copy £18 10s 6d  
    2 Chairs 4/6, Drawer belonging to square Table 2/9   7s 3d  
    Concertina 5/6 Clothes Basket 3/4 Market Basket 2/4   11s 2d  
    Bronze Fender 6/- Water Slide Jar Fitting 12/-   18s    
    2 Breakfast Cans, 1 Lading Can 1/5 2 Chimney Ornaments 5/- Large Tea Tray and Bread Basket 4/6   10s 11d  
    Hastener 5/ 3 Glass Crewt with Metal Pots 3/3   8s 3d  
    Large oil Case destroyed 23/6 Writing desk 5/6 £1 9s    
    Room Window Curtains Pole and Curtains   15s 6d  
    2 Celery Glasses 3/8 Window Screen 2/3   5s 11d  
    3 Plain Decanters 3/6 Block for Bonnet Making 6/3   9s 9d  
    Fishing Rod 8/6 German Plate 7/6   16s    
    Sheffield Directory and 20 Miles Round   12s 6d  
    Money lost from the Mantle piece £2 15s 6d  
    Loss of time to John Short 12 Weeks at 3/- per day £10 16s    
    Mary Ann Short 16 Weeks at 1/- per day £4 16s    
    Damage to Garden viz. 1 Dozen Gooseberry Trees 3d   3s    
    Dozen Currants 3/-, 2 Dozen Flower Bulbs at 2d each 4/-   7s    
    1½ Dozen Polyanthuses roots at 1½d Root   2s 3d  
    100 Yellow Crocuses at 1/6 per 100   1s 6d  
    100 Scotc [?] Crocuses at 3/- per 100   3s    
    To 8 Roots of Herbs at 3d per root   2s    
    To 200 Winter Lettuce at 2/6 per 100   5s    
    A sundry lot of flower roots   3s 6d  
    4 Roots of Rhubarb at 9d per root   3s    
    ½ ton of Manure at 6/ per ton   3s    
    ½ ton of Coal 5/6 Garden Gate and fence 6/6   12s    
        £47 9s 4½d  
  Certificate Granted
9 May 1865
Assessed at £20      

Note: Line 8: Crewt [sic]: probably Cruet

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