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Claim for loss of property #5145 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5145 James Lucas Norman and Charles Lucas Norman; George Marples; Henry Rodgers and Arthur Thomas [James Lucas Norman and Charles Lucas Norman] Builders; [George Marples, Henry Rodgers and Arthur Thomas] Gentlemen [James Lucas Norman and Charles Lucas Norman] Ditchingham Street, Sheffield; [George Marples] Winter Street, Sheffield; [Henry Rodgers and Arthur Thomas] Bank Street, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  [James Lucas Norman and Charles Lucas Norman] Owners; [George Marples] First Mortgagee; [Henry Rodgers and Arthur Thomas] Second Mortgagees   Weir and Shuttles £50      
    Wash between River and Goit New Wash Board   7s 6d  
    Walling one side of the Goit, to Flood Shuttles 45 yards long at 5/~ per rood £1 12s 2d  
    Wood Bridge over the River with 2 Stone abutments £16      
    Tools in Shed ~ Riddle 0.4.0        
    For damage done to the Stacey Wheel near Dam Flask in the parish of Ecclesfield in the County of York and the dam goight, weirs and appurtenences thereto, particulars of which are set forth in the first Schedule hereunto annexed £1866.9.8        
    For damage done to the land adjoining Stacey Wheel aforesaid and the Walls edges fences rails gates etc. belonging thereto ~ particulars of which are set forth in the second Schedule hereto annexed £134.11.5        
    For damage done to the water course at Stacey Wheel aforesaid and expenses necessary for the removal of the debris from the same £90      
    For fire brick clay 32 yards 8½ yards wide 2 Yards thick containing 544 cubic Yards Weight 650 tons at 4/6 £146 5s    
    Pot clay 20 tons at 20/~ £20      
    For expenses incurred in obtaining ~ estimates and valuations of the above ~ damages £23 8s    
    For legal expenses incurred in consequence of the above Inundation prior to the ~ preparation of this Claim [total of all figures above is £2287.0.1] £6 6s    
    Also interest on the above amount of £2287.0.1. at 5 per centum per annum from March 12th 1864, until the Assessment of the damages hereby Claimed        
    First Schedule to the Claim of J.L. Norman and C.L. Norman and their Mortgagees being of damage done to Stacey Wheel the dam goight weirs and ~ appurtenances thereto        
    Bank between the River and Goit repairing 54 Yards long @ 5/~ yard £13 10s    
    Stone pitching in the wash 18 feet x 18 feet 9 inches 37 yards 6/~ £11 2s    
    Dam Bank 119 yards long x 5 yards x 2 yards = 1190
37 yards long x 5 yards x 3 yards = 555
36 yards long x 5 yards x 2 yards = 360
37 yards long x 5 yards x 3¾ yards = 1147
2758 yards @ 3/~ £412 16s    
    Culvert in Dam Bank and new Shuttle £10      
    Building 2 Stories high and Forebay £690      
    Arch behind Water Wheel rebuilding 39 feet x 10 feet £30      
    Goit below the Arch 73 yards x 4 Yards x 1½ yards 438 Yards 8d with carting £14 12s    
    Crop Shuttle and Ashlar Work £15      
    Goit below Crop Shuttle 150 Yards long at 3/~ yard £22 10s    
    Goit from the Crop Shuttle to River 45 yards x 4 yards x 1 yard = 180 yards at 8d £6      
    2 Flood Shuttles and Ashlar near Storrs Bridge Weir £40      
    Road repairing from the River to the Wheel 60 yards x 6 yards = 360 yards at 1/~ yard £18      
    Goit Bank making good below the wheel Bank Arch £15      
    Machinery replacing and fixing in low and upper Rooms £450      
    Timber down river side and field below the Wheel £50      
    Second Schedule to the claim of J.L. Norman and C.L. Norman and their Mortgagees being of damage done to the Land, Walls re-adjoining Stacey Wheel        
    In Low Holme Field        
    Clay Shed measuring 8 x 7 yards within with dry walls and boarded roof as per Messrs. Normans account [£.s.d]        
    Say 16 Rood Stone Walling @ 12/~ 9.12.0        
    1664 f3eet of 9 x 1 inch boards @ 1½d 8.13.4 £18 5s 4d  
    Barrow 0.18.0        
    Hatchet and Saw 0.6.0        
    24 Yards Iron farm rails at 20 feet per yard 4 hundredweights 2 quarters 4 pounds @ 7/10/0 1.12.2        
    12 = 14 feet boards 7 x 1 inch red deal 1.0.0        
    2 = 18 feet planks 11 x 3 inches 0.7.0        
    Pair doors belonging to Farm premises 0.7.6        
    Half Hundredweight loose Larch cost 31/6 0.15.9        
    6 loose boards 14 feet x 9 x 1 inch 0.8.9        
    1 Plank red deal 10 feet x 11 x 1½ inch 0.5.0 £6 4s 2d  
    60 load Rubble stone from own quarry to form new road to Clay pit stone getting and Carriage @ 1/3 3.15.0 £3 15s    
    Low Holme        
    130 Yards hedging next Bye dyke or Goit entirely gone wants goit and rails @ 1/3 8.2.6 £8 2s 6d  
    Lane from Storrs to Stacey Wheel 200 Yards fence Walling 4½ feet done half stone gone
28 Roods 4 Yards walling @ 4/6
6.8.6        
    100 Load stone @ 1/3 6.5.0        
    Gate and 1 Stone post wanted 0.18.0        
    130 Yards of 4½ feet Stone walling from River to Wheel say on each side of road and Stone entirely gone say 18 Roods 4 Yards Walling @ 4/6 Stone and Leading 7 loads to the rood @ 1/3 8/9 12.5.2        
    2 Stone posts and Gate Wanted 1.0.0        
    8 Roods 1 Yard Stone Walling next plantation from Mr. Bancroft's house to river (Stone Gone) @ 13/3 5.6.0        
    19 roods walling in House Field front of Mr Bancroft's house and next road @ 13/3 12.11.9        
    Lime for Toppers 0.10.0        
    River wall from outlet of Culvert to the road leading to the wheel on the south side of the river say 10 roods 6 feet high Walling 6 feet Stone and Leading 12/6 9.5.0 £54 9s 5d  
    0 acres 2 roods 34 rood; 5½ x 5½ yards">perches Little Holme        
    [+] 0 acres 3 roods 39 rood; 5½ x 5½ yards">perches Ings or Upper Holme        
    [=] 1 acres 2 roods 33 rood; 5½ x 5½ yards">perches Soil washed away depth usually ploughed reduced in value to let 20/~ per acre for twenty years 33.15.0        
    0 acres 1 rood 0 rood; 5½ x 5½ yards">perches in Upper Holme entirely washed to the Gravel will cost to restore or resoil 10.0.0 £43 15s    
        £2287   1d  
  Certificate Granted
27 June 1865
Assessed by Consent at £1600      
      This Claim does not include the expenses already incurred in reopening the Clay workings for which a Claim is made by Messrs. Norman        

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