A walk-miller was a man engaged in the process of fulling at a walk or fulling mill. Thomas Horton, of Holroyd, Esq., had a son baptized at Chadderton Hall, Joshua Thomas (afterwards the Rev. Joshua Thomas Horton.) Miss Sally Horton, sister to the late Sir William Horton, Bart., buried at Oldham, December 10th, 1790. A daughter of John Binns, collier, of Goldbourn, unfortunately drowned in Shapashes, December 13th, 1790, age 9 years. Greenacres, December 9th, 1790. – Last night one Charles Williamson broke into the house of Richard Waring, of Greenacres, and stole a silver watch, two bills of exchange, and a quantity of gold and silver. He was taken the following day at Stockport. He had broke out of Chester Gaol, where he had been committed for house-breaking. Abraham Cocker, of Heyside, formerly of Wood, was intered at Oldham, December 17th, 1790. Ralph Collier, of Royton, committed to the New Bailey for security in bastardy, December 16th, 1790. His age upwards of 70 years. Betty Marshall (formerly Betty Atherton) interred at Oldham, December 13th 1790. December 15th, 1790. – Last night the wind rose astonishingly, and unroofed a deal of helpless thatched cots. It likewise blew down a large factory at Manchester; the bricks fell upon a cottage near it, wherein was a child six years old, a man and his wife. The child was killed dead; the man and his wife much bruised. December 23rd, 1790. – Last night it was uncommon stormy and wind very high, which unroofed a deal of thatched houses. Very loud cracks of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. A lamentable misfortune on the 21st December, 1790. A large cotton factory in Hanover-street, Manchester, suddenly fell down at 11 o’clock forenoon, when the people were at work. Three were killed and a great number miserably hurt, besides a number of horses killed and wounded. Its falling was attributed to the springing of an arch in one of the cellers under it. Two have died of there wounds. Betty, wife of Robert Wolstoncroft, of Couldhurst, High Barn, died December 27th, 1790; disorder a consumption, age 38.
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Mary, wife of James Crompton, hatter, Oldham, died February 18th. Disorder, a consumption. Age 35. Feb., 1791. – Beef sells at 5 pence per pound; mutton, 5 pence; veal, 5 pence to 5½ d; potatoes, 6s.6d. per load; flour, 2s and 2s.5d. per peck; meal, 1s.7d. per peck; treacle, 3d. per lb; old butter, 8d; new butter, 9d. per lb.; bacon, 8d. Mary, wife of James Cleg, of Northmoor, died March 2nd. Disorder, dropsy. Age,74. A male child of John Jackson’s, of Maggot Lane, unfortunately drowned, March 8th. Age, 2 years. Mary, wife of John Mills, of Maggot Lane, died March 12th. Disorder, a consumption. James Hartley, a collier, was killed at Werneth Coalpits, March 22nd. Ralph Barnes, of Daubhouse, died suddenly, March 23rd; a great age. Onions sold 4d. per pound in March, this year. Oldham, March 28th. – Last night the factory belonging to James Smethurst was broke open, and a large quantity of cotton stolen. Richard Banks was so burned by the firey damp, at Werneth, that he died a few days after, March 21st. Mark Buckley, shoemaker, but late a spinner, died suddenly at Oldham, April 5. Sarah, wife of Abraham Crompton, Chapel Croft, Oldham, died April 16. Old Alice Hallawell, of Church Yard, buried at Oldham, April 26th. The house of John Stocton, mule-spinner, of Blakeley-street, Manchester, got on fire, and four children were burnt to atoms: the husband’s wife sister and two children escaped out of the windows, though their limbs were broken and much bruised, April 30th. A girl, three years old, of Wm. Whittaker’s, of Top-o’-th’Moor, so miserably burnt by her clothes taking fire, that she died the next day, May 1st. Jane, relict of the late Mr. Weedall, of Coldhurst Highbarn, buried at Oldham, May 18th. Wife of John Lingate (Lingard) of Leeshall, died of a violent fever, May 16th. |
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May 14th. – New potatoes sold in Oldham 4 pence per lb. The large ox, the first prize at the Welch Main, won by Tom Shallcross and Co., arrived at Oldham, and inspected by the public at 2d. per piece, May 14th. James Walton, alias Wrangle, for an assault on Sarah Gibbins, committed to the New Bailey, May 17th. We must observe that last winter was an uncommon mild one, even, opener than the winter before; this spring one of the earliest ever known till May, when it turned to uncommon cold till the 26th, when it made appearance of a fine summer. Two Street Bridge colliers, for breaking in the house of Edmund Taylor, of Thornham-lane, committed to Lancaster to take their trials, by Joseph Pickford, May 20th. Joseph Wild, of Nathan-row, much burned by a quantity of gunpowder taking fire, May 26th. Nathan Robinson’s Galloway, from Oldham to Wakefield, May 31st. Sarah Mills, of Rettom Nook, died June 2nd; disorder a consumption. John Cocker, of Netherhouse, Crompton, in a fit of insanity cut his body open, June 8th, and died, June 10th.
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June 12th, uncommon hot for about a fortnight last, when it changed to severe cold, so that it froze severely. The neighbouring hills were covered with snow. Wife of Ralph Mellor, of Northmoor, died, July 9th; disorder, a fever. Two children of James Mellor’s, Smith Edge-lane, died of a fever about the beginning of July. June 14th, it froze astonishingly this morning. Betty, wife of John Buckley, of Busk, died June 11th, aged 68 years. John Chadwick, Badger of Oldham, died July 12th. Wife of Richard Livsey, weaver, of Royton, delivered of 3 children, July 13th, who with the mother are doing well. John Ogden, of Busk, committed to the New Bailey, July 6th, for fishing in the grounds of Mr. Hopwood, of Hopwood. Thomas, his son, for same offence, to the above prison, July 12th. James Hardman, of Oldham, died July 15th; disorder, a pleurisy fever. A man very emmenant in music. The Hardman family would appear to have been endowed with great musical talent. Two young ladies of this name were rather famous singers some half century ago, and were associates, if not relatives of the renowned Deborah Travis. |
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