Held at:

Herefordshire Record Office

Reference:

019/1

Source:

Original document

Title:

Michaelchurch Estate accounts [extract]

Place name:

Michaelchurch Escley

Date:

1835 - 1846

Description:

The following entries relating to Michaelchurch mill have been extracted from the accounts of the Michaelchurch Estate, of which the mill formed part.

1835: Thomas Gwillim ½ year rent to 2nd August 1835

£18-0-0

Allowed for repairs

£2-12-5

Allowed for ½ year land tax

       9-4

Cash

£14-18-3

1836: Thomas Gwillim ½ year rent to 2nd February 1836

£18-0-0

1836: Thomas Gwillim: a piece of meadowland, part of the Michaelchurch Court Farm, February 1836 the half year

£2-10-0

Mill rental to 2nd August 1836

£18-0-0,

total

£20-10-0

[note: The 1836 estate accounts mention “Mr. Winters for half years salary due the 30th December for managing the estate and superintending repairs etc.:

£15-0-0]

1837: December – Thomas Gwillim

rent for 1 year for Michaelchurch Mill

£36-0-0

1837: December – Jenkins, Blacksmith

paid for repairing the wheel at the Mill

£3-2-6

1838: Thomas Gwillim

1 years rent for Michaelchurch Mill and lands due August 2nd

£36-0-0.

Paid man for pitching stables at Michaelchurch Mill

15s-0

Mr. Wheeler, Millwright, for repairs at Michaelchurch Mill

£24-0-0

[note: The 1830 Piggott’s Directory of Herefordshire gives two millwrights named Wheeler in Hereford; Richard Wheeler in St. Owen Street and Thomas Wheeler in Bye Street. In a further entry in 1835 only Richard Wheeler is shown, in St. Owen’s Without, so it was probably Richard who repaired Michaelchurch Mill]

1839: February – Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands; ½ year at £36-0-0 per annum plus ½ year at £46-0-0 per annum

Total

£41-0-0

1840: Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands; ½ year to 2nd February at £46-0-0 per annum plus ½ year to 2nd August at £40-0-0 per annum

total

£43-0-0

1841: Thomas Gwillim

for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands; year to 2nd August

£40-0-0

Paid William Gwillim  for hauling ‘as per account’

£13-2-0

Paid John Price balance of account for extra work and repairs at Michaelchurch and the Mill

£50-0-0

1842: Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands

½ year to 2 February

£20-0-0

Arrears to 2nd August 1842

£24-0-0

Income tax

11-4 ½

Disbursements

£18-12-4

Receipts

£12-12-0

Arrears

£12-4-3 ½

1843: Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands

½ year to 2nd August

£20-0-0

Arrears to 2nd February 1843

£12-4-3 ½

Receipts

£12-4-3 ½

Income tax

11-4 ½

Arrears

£19-8-7 ½

1844: Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands

½ year rental

£ 20-0-0

Paid

£7-16-0

Arrears

£39-8-7 ½

Second half-year rental

£20-0-0

Arrears

£49-8-6 ½

1845: Thomas Gwilliam (sic) for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands

½ year to 2nd August 1844; Arrears

£49-8-6 ½

Rent

£20-0-0

Income tax

11-4 ½

Disbursements

      9-8

Receipts

£10-0-0

Arrears

£58-7-6

½ year ended 2nd August; rent

£12-10-0

Arrears

£58-7-6

Receipts

£17-9-3 ½

1846: Thomas Gwillim for rent of Michaelchurch Mill and lands

Arrears to 2nd August 1845

£51-7-6

Rent ½ year ending 2nd February

£12-10-0

Income tax

         7-0

Disbursements

        9-8

Receipts

£11-13-4

Arrears

£51-7-6

Observations:

None


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