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Claim for loss of property #5152 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5152 George Machin Butcher Gibralter Street, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Yearly Tenant   Various Articles of Furniture damaged and lost £4      
    Wife and Five Childrens Shoes, all spoiled £1      
    Various Articles of Clothing belonging to Wife and Children from the Clothes line Drying lost and spoiled £2      
    Various Articles of Food including 1 Small side of Bacon, Bread, Tea, Sugar, Soap, etc., etc.   15s    
    Two Mens time in cleaning out Mud from Cellar, and Kitchen, and washing Coal, etc. £1      
    To loss sustained on the first Saturday March 12th in the sale of Meat and loss in keeping it being unable to do business for the most part of the day and it been left to stand £2      
    Coals damaged and extra quantity required for drying the House been unable to live in the Kitchen where we usually do for 8 weeks £1 1s    
    2 Pairs of Mens Boots rendered unfit for use   18s    
    1 Pair Small Clothes and 2 Smock Frocks Shirts etc. £1 15s    
    Papering, Cleaning and Whitewashing and Womans time   16s    
    P.S. We generally live in the Kitchen which is below the level of the Yard ~ and the Cellar and the Kitchen stood seven feet deep in Water and Mud, and remained from three to four feet deep for the greater part of the day, this accounts for the great loss in Clothing etc., as it was impossible for us to get at many things, we could not get the Water to run off, the Sewer been quite stopped up.        
        £15 5s    
  Certificate Granted
27 June 1865
Assessed by Agreement incl costs at £12 5s    

Note: Gibralter [sic]

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