November 8th -The house situated on New-road, late the residence and property of Jas. Taylor, was sold by auction, and purchased by Roger Wrigley, of Oldham, taylor, for £320, for John Rowbottom of Hunt-lane. November 13th – The fine weather still continues, it being very fine and warm. November 7th -Died, wife of George Ouzey, of Humphrey-lane; age, 80 years. November 13th – Commenced a very keen frost, but very calm, without either frost or snow. November 16th – Last night it froze very keenly. Some time since Denis Tims entered as tenant on the Fire-Engine public-house, Streetbridge, late John Howard’s November 15th – Colonel Joseph Hanson arrived at his home at Strangeways Hall, near Manchester. He had been imprisoned in the King’s Bench Prison, London, for six months, for being a friend to the poor weavers, and particularly when the mobs where in May 1808. 39,600 weavers subscribed a superb gold cup and salver, which they made him a present of. The weavers from Bolton, Manchester, Ashton, and Stockport met him a mile before he reached Macclesfield, and took the horses out of his carriage, and drawed him through the principal places on towards Manchester. He went privately through Manchester to Strangeways Hall, his reason for going privately through, he was afraid of his enemies raising a riot, and the consequence being charged to Mr. Hanson’s friends.
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Wheeler says:- It was determined to present Mr. Hanson with a silver cup, and that he prevented a demonstration by driving at a rapid rate to his residence. The particulars of his arrest and incarceration are to be found in a previous annal. November 15th – Samuel Richards entered as tenant on the Angel Inn, Oldham, late Mr. John Ogden. A short time since Jonathan Jackson sold his house next door to Ancer public-house, Oldham, to Joseph Clegg for £400. November 25th- Saturday, was executed, at Lancaster, James Draper, of Bolton, James Smith, of Manchester; Laurance Law, Robert Hartly, Gilbert Holden, and James Cudworth, of or near Rochdale. They were found guilty at the last August assizes for selling forged Bank of England notes to James Whitehead and James Shaw, of Rochdale. Their council started an objection against their conviction, and it was referred to the judges at the Michaelmas term following, when the judges confirmed the conviction, and they were executed as above. Their bodys where fetched from Lancaster. Draper and Smith were intered at Bolton, Law at Rochdale, on the 27th; Holden and Hartly on the 28th, at Rochdale; Cudworth same day, at Whitworth. There where immence numbers of people to witness their interments, and expressed a deal of sorrow for their unfortunate ends. May these be the last that suffer for a similar offence. |
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ANNALS OF OLDHAM No. LVI 1809 December 10th – This morning (Friday), about four o’clock, died Michael Rowbottom, of Mumps, Oldham, cotton manufacturer. Age, 75 years. Michael Rowbottom was buried at Oldham Church. His gravestone has been noticed in a previous annal. He was one of our earliest cotton spinners in Oldham. Same day, died John Clegg, hatter, of Mumps; disorder, consumption. December 11th – Died Betty, daughter of James Rowbottom, of Stockport, but formerly of Aldershot; disorder, a violent fever; her age, 18 years and a few days. December 18th – Died, Samuel Lees, keeper of the Bull’s Head, Millbottom; disorder, apoplexy. December 20th – Was intered Samuel Fletcher, keeper of the Friendship, near Mumps. And George Ouzey, of Humphrey Lane. They were both far advanced in years. December 23rd – About six o’clock this evening the post-boy carrying the bags from Delph through Oldham to Manchester, wilst he stoped at the Navigation Inn, bottom of Hollinwood, George Taylor’s, some persons at present unknown cut the Oldham bags from the portmantaue, which contained cash, bank notes, and bills of exchange to the amount of £500, with wich they made clear off. Mr. Naden, the constable from Manchester, made diligent search after the dilinquents, but without success. The post-boy was commited to the New Bailey Prison for one month for negligence of duty. December 29th –Uncomon warm, open weather, but attended with a deal of rain, so that the roads are in a very bad condition. December 29th – Died, John Hardey, school-master on Vinnook; disorder, consumption; age, 30 years. Vin Nook occupies a large space in these annals. It was evidently a populous place, and enjoyed the presence of a schoolmaster in its limits – a rare thing in Oldham at that time.
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December 30th – As the Old Tame Coach was returning to Manchester from Old Tame, and being heavey laden with passengers, betwixt Mile Platting sand Newton Heath, a wheel broke, and the coach came down, wereby Daniel Broadbent of Greenacres Moor, fustian manufacturer, was killed on the spot, and several others dangerously wounded. The winter thus far had been extremely open and fine, although attended with an uncomon deal of rain. Trade of all kinds as been uncomonly brisk, but every necessary of life uncomonly dear, and lays and taxes very high, so that it is very difficult for the poor to obtain an honest livelyhood, and there is no great sign of things being better. Further observations on winter: It is so fine and warm as to astonish everyone, and all sorts of vegetation is making rapid appearances, as in a forward spring. Nettles are very forward, and everything in the gardens is visably showing the openness of the winter, for every shrub and flower is struggling to convince the beholder of the openness of the winter. 1810 The year of 1810 commenced on a Monday, wich was a dark cloudy day, and Cristmas was better kept up than last year, although but a miserable Cristmas compared with former times, but trade is better than last winter a great deal; Hatting was never better at this time of year. Factory business is brisk, and wages moderate, but everything is so immencely dear that the poor cannot make a Cristmas at all, and better days never need be expected as long as there is continuation of this lamentable war. The growth of our local industries is clearly marked in this annal. “Hatting was never better at this time of year;” “Factory business brisk,” &c. The times favoured those who had capital on account of the inflated value of money. The poor were badly off enough on the account of the dearness of provisions. E. Butterworth says of this period: “The facility with which credit could be obtained at this period, multiplied artificial capital, and imported prosperity in trade during the war. As well as adversity coincident with its advance. Such a system created the necessity or repeated and unwearied speculation, and this whilst extending the traffic of the country produced those inevitable distresses and embarrassments which have occurred from time to time. The great extension of the Brazilian trade in 1808 was highly beneficial to the cotton manufacture. |
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