Farms

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

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

Also in Belmangate – John Wood, W^m Pollard, John Calvert, Thomas Mills.

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

MILL

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 he 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 he 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 on the Cleveland Street 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”	5
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 and 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	W^m son of W^m 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 9^th 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 WICo. lettering.

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