ANNALS OF OLDHAM No. LVIII 1810 May 8th -Last night was a tremendous roof night for wind, snow, and frost. The wind was very high, and the snow came in great quantities. A deal of blossom was torn off by the velocity of the wind, and the northern hills were visibly covered with snow. May 6th -Died, Samuel, son of John Hilton, of St. Helen’s, Northmoor; disorder, fever; 14 years. May 10th -Died, Adam Ogden, of Burnley-lane; age 41 years; disorder, a rapid decline. May 11th -Anna Mellor put an end to her existence by hanging herself in her bedroom. A cross in love is said to be the cause of this rash action. She was a native of Royton. She was a very peaceable young woman, and died much lamented. Age, about 27 years.
May 13th -A letter arrived from Portugal, giving an account of the death of John, son of Edmund Wild, of Burnley-lane. He died a soldier in the 39th Regiment. It is such an entry as this that shows the part Oldham took in this terrible war. May 15th -The wind still continues very boisterous and cold. It cut off all vegetation, grass, corn, srubs, and trees are withered as if burned with fire; it as been continual for some time past at North East. May 15th -Rochdale this day, the recruits for the local militia were sworn in here for Midleton division. May 16th -Last night died Jone, wife of Jas. Greaves, of Top o’th-Moor, a woman far advanced in years 63 years. May 17th -Died, John Jackson, of New-road
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May 19th - Was interred at Oldham. Rosey, wife of Isaac Hardy, of Scholes-fold, Maygate lane; age about 58 years. May 16th - The San Domingo sailed from the Downs to the Nore. The Nore was a promontory in Kent, an ancient rendezvous of the English Fleet. It was at this place in l797 called the mutiny of the Nore, when Lord Howe did signal service in quelling the disturbance. It seems to have been a naval station from an early period. May 20th - Died, Mr. Thomas Whithead, hat manufacturer, of New-road, Oldham; disorder, consumption; age 23 years. May 23rd - Died, James Greaves, of Top-o’th’-Moor, far advanced in years; 75 years of age. May 27th - Jonathan Whithead, of Edge-lane, fever. May 24th – Died, Mary, wife of John Whihead, of Top-o’th’-Moor. She was the daughter of John Taylor, of St. Helenlens; disorder, a fever: age 25 years. This fever wich has been so fatal in several families, generally terminated in six days. May 29th - Died, John Mills, of Brick Croft, Oldham, stonemason; disorder, a fever; age, 66 years. May 30th - Was intered at Oldham James Taylor, formerly of Oldham, but late of Newton-lane, and William Wisherwood, of Fog-lane. May 30th - Died, Mary, the second wife of John Scofield of Oldham, butcher. May 24th – The San Domingo sailed from the Nore for the North Seas. Substance of the late Mr. Thomas Henshaw, hat manufacturer, of Hargreaves, Oldham :- To the endowment of a Blue Coat School at Oldham or Manchester, if the executor think it more convenient, £40,000; for a Blind Asylum at Manchester, £20,000; to Manchester Infirmary, £1000, to the Lunatic Hospital at Manchester, £1000; for the Lying in Hospital at Manchester, £500; to the Lady’s Charity at Manchester £500. The executor of Mr. Henshaw’s will seems to have had great power in fixing the places where the school and the hospital should be built. This accounts for the hospital being built at Manchester, though the money that built it had been made in Oldham. |
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17th – The weather is extremely droughty, such as was seldom seen before, and very little vegetation. June. – The beginning of the month the San Domingo returned into the Downs from off the Sehelkd. The cynosure of all eyes seems to have been the San Domingo, a troopship which bore its precious human cargoes to the places where most they were needed. It seems to have been a ship well known in Oldham, judging by these annals; and well it might, as it carried our brave boys to where our country most wanted their presence and their pluck. And, alas ! it often brought them home "“ sheer hulk,"” like poor Tom Bowling -–if, indeed, they had not already “gone aloft,” finding, let us hope, like him, “pleasant weather.” June 29th – After experiencing the greatest drought ever rembered, it begun of raining this day. June 28th – Died, Major Bamford, of Oldham, glazier and grocer; age, abot 58 years; disorder, comsumption. June 30th – Was intered at Oldham, Sarah, widow of the late Samuel Knott, of North-moor and Fog-lane. She was a very great age. July 12th – Plymouth, last night, arrived and went up harbour to be repaired, the San Domingo. July 21st – A few days since, at Liverpool, died sudden, Mr. John Radcliff, hat manufacturer, of Coldhurst Hollow; and William Ogden, keeper of the Noggin public-house, near Hollinwood; age, 53 years. July 18th – Plymouth, last night, the San Doninago was decked in this port.
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July 19th – This day Mansfield Newton, of Denton-lane, was returning from Manchester, where he had been to draw his pension. He had a dispute with an Irishman, when Paddy struck Newton a blow on the head wich killed him on the spot. It happened in Newton-lane, and the Irishman, of course, was committed to Lancaster. July 9th – Died, James Wood, of Plumton, formerly of Tetlow-fold. Same day was Oldham July Fair; a wet day and little company, but Alice Fallows, wife of Josiah Fallows, of Burnley-lane, had the misfortune to be severely wounded by a cow running its horn into her belly. There is little hopes of her recovery. July 25th – Thomas Taylor, comonly called Tom of Bunkers, killed by falling down a coal pit of John Travis, near Grimbys. July 28th – Died Samuel Horrocks, keeper of the Lamb Inn, Oldham; disorder, consumption; age, 48. The farmers are buiseyley engaged in their hay. The crops in genaral are very light, but the crops of corn look very well. August 1st – Was intered at Oldham, George Lees, comonly cald George Windy, hatter, of Maygate-lane; consumption, age, 52. And early this morning a large cotton factory, situated near Bury, was discovered on fire. Unhappily a little boy, seven years of age, was consumed to ashes, as was everything except the brick walls. And an uncomon great consternation in the commercial world on account of so many banks stoping payment, and so many country banks failing, and so many capital houses in trade stoping. |
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