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Farms
1881 Census: Paradise Belmont near old mine. Thomas Dale, 40 yrs old, farmer of 238 acres.

1841 Census: Belmangate: Wm Potter 40, John Potter 35, Robert 30, all farmers. Mary Gr---wood 15. Mary Minikin, female seervant. Ann Bolton, female servant.

Also in Belmangate - John Wood, Wm Pollard, John Calvert, Thomas Mills.

Guisborough Corn Market: Public meeting of Farmers and Millers and other inhabitants held 11 March 1833: Unanimously resolved to establish a Corn Market. Sale and purchase of grain. Each Tuesday.

Guisborough Provident Corn Mill Society
Stockton Gazette & M'bro Times

Oct 10, 1862
Annual General Meeting: Half-yearly sales

23,209  stones   Flour
 2,124    "      Breadmeal
10,463    "      Offal
 2,498    "      Barleymeal
   384    "      Beans
   263  bushels  Oats

Profits for h/yr £5.2.7d! Sales down.

Presumably in Mill St. Yes, note the house with 2 upper storeys and large entrance into what was the Mill yard and also a back way into the 2 cottages east of the mill.
Established 1858-9? Advertised for sale: A Co-operative venture which preceded the consumer "store" of the Co-operative Movement. One supposes the Corn Mill Society would have the support of the local farmers. Check this. The same townsfolk prominent in this venture as in other local affairs: CO Ord, D Baker, TT Trevor. Was this mill established following the abandonment of the windmill in the Cleveland St area?

Occupations 1827/28 and 1830/31

Anchor smith       1
Bass maker         1
Brush maker        1
Bricklayers        4
Blockmaker         1
Boat builder       1
Bakers             3
Basket maker       1
Butcher            1
Cartwright         1
Carpenters         6
Coopers            2
Cropper            1
Cork cutter        1
Collier            1
Carpet weavers     2
Cotton stamper     1
Currier            1
Combmaker          1
Comb cutter        1
Coachmakers        2
Copper roll marker 1
Dyer               1
Fisherman          1
Flax dresser       1
Glassblowers       2
Gunsmith           1
Groom              1
Gardener           1
Glazier            1
Hatters           23
Hoop maker         1
“5 men going a-harvesting”
Joiners           15
Lath river         1
Labourers         26
Millers            2
Nailor             1
Printers           4
Papermakers        3
Painters           3
Paper stainer      1
Plasterer          1
“Paviour”          1
Pedlars            2
Ropers            20
Stonemason,masons  8
Sailmakers         2
Saddler            2
Sawyer             1
Schoolmaster       1
Seamen             2
Tanner             1
Tailor             1
Tobacconists
   (named)         2
“Tradesmen”        9
Wheelwright        1
Weavers           25

Solicitor (Watson)
chaisedriver
Weatherill – Common brewer
1832 Wool comber = “heckler”

1832 Henry Baliol, Comedian. (1813-1841 Bapt. reg.) daughter baptised
1834 Wm son of Wm Henry & Ann (1813-1841) Wilson, a travelling ventriloquist
1835 (1813-1841) a daughter to Anthony Nicholson, Travelling beggar. Born at Greenock, NB.
1839 George Andrews, travelling sailmaker. (1813-1841 Bapt Reg.)
1832 Richard Lamb, travelling apothecary (1813-1841 Bapt reg)

Parish register 1713 – occupations

Agricol
Blacksmith
Barber
Baker
Butcher
Clockmaker
Currier
Cobler
Chandler
Farmer
Gentn
Gardener
Glover
Husbandman
Joiner/Carpenter
Officer in the Customs
Potter
Labourer
Saddler
Skinner
Schoolmaster
Sailor
Shoemaker
Surgeon
Tailor
Tanner
Tinker
Yeoman

Baptism, Feb 14, 1724. Anne, daughter of Mr Xtopher Dent, Excise Officer.
(Parish reg.)

Sailcloth.
Manufactured at Guisborough. (Defoe). ? 1660-1731 His “Tour” 1724-27.
Note: gravestone at S Mary’s, Whitby. Monument to Christopher Preswick, sailcloth manufacturer: obit 9th july 1792. (Ralph Ward’s Diary re one Preswick: also Par Regs @ Guis.) Any connection?

Weardale Mine, Upper Belmangate
vide Mr Harry Jerret 25 April 1962. HJ dies 1984.
Weardale Iron Co. Overhead line across Belmangate to station. 2 wagons up and 2 down. HJ saw old wagon wheels in mine with WMCo. lettering.