Hello Listers, Does anyone know anything about John Sowerby and his son, Colonel Thomas Sowerby of Dalston Hall or how he earned his fortune in London? Deborah Hodgkinson Victoria, BC > On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Petra Mitchinson via <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Saturday 14 Aug 1819 (p. 1, col. 5-6 and p. 2, col. 3-4) > > FARM TO LET. > > TO BE LET, by PROPOSAL, for the Term of NINE YEARS, and Entered upon at CANDLEMAS 1820, > > A MESSUAGE and TENEMENT, situate at GREAT ORTON, in the Parish of ORTON, in the County of Cumberland, consisting of suitable > Farm-Buildings, and 57 Acres 1 Rood of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, well Watered and Fenced. > > Further Particulars may be known by Applying to JOHN STORDY, of Great Orton aforesaid, the Owner, by whom Proposals will be received > until the 9th Day of September next, and the Tenant declared the following week. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A VERY DESIRABLE AND MOST VALUABLE > BURGAGE PROPERTY IN ANNAN > FOR SALE. > > TO BE SOLD, by PUBLIC ROUP, within the COURT HOUSE of ANNAN, upon FRIDAY the 3rd Day of SEPTEMBER next, 1819, betwixt 12 and 1 > o'Clock Afternoon: > > THAT Elegant and Extensive TENEMENT, situated on the South Side of the HIGH STREET of that BURGH, near the Bridge, and presently > occupied as an ACADEMY, with the whole Offices, Yard, Two large Gardens, and Pertinents thereto belonging. > > These Buildings were originally constructed for an Inn, at an expence of nearly Ł3000 Sterling, and for several years were occupied > as such. They consist of Twenty Fire Rooms, with Kitchen, Back Kitchen, Scullery, and Pump House, Three large Bed Closets or Store > Rooms, Four excellent Cellar Rooms below; Stabling for Thirty-two Horses, having Hay-lofts over; Coach-house, Hog-yard, Swine Hulls, > Cow House, &c. The whole, including the Stable-yard and the Two lareg [sic] Gardens, occupying about Two English Acres of Ground, > having upwards of 300 Feet in Front, in the most public and very best situation of any in the Burgh. > > No Property in Annan is better adapted for carrying on business, in any line: and as by the improvements presently going on in the > Road betwixt the Cities of Carlisle and Glasgow, whereby Annan will only be a short stage from the former place, and the line of > Road to Lockerbie by Annan leveller and much easier travelled, especially in bad weather, than that by Ecclefechan, it is next to > certain that by far the greatest part, if not the whole transit from Carlisle to Lockerbie, and vice versa, as well as that to the > North of Ireland and West of Scotland, will go by Annan. The Premises are therefore thought to be very favourably situated for a > principal Inn. > > The Title Deeds are unexceptionably clear. > > Further Particulars may be learned by applying to the MAGISTRATES or TOWN CLERK. > > N. B. A considerable part of the Price may, if desired, continue in the Purchaser's hand, on the Security of the Premises. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > GAME. > > IT is requested that all Qualified Persons will refrain from Hunting, Shooting, or Fishing, within the Manor of LITTLE DALSTON, in > the County of Cumberland, belonging to JOHN SOWERBY, Esquire, and in the Grounds, Woods, and Waters of the said JOHN SOWERBY, > Esquire, within the Parishes of ST. MARY and ST. CUTHBERT, Carlisle. > > All Poachers and Unqualified Persons found therein, will be prosecuted. > > N. B.—The Tenants on the several Farms have strict Orders to inform against Trespassers. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > GAME, > WITHIN THE FOREST OF INGLEWOOD. > > WHEREAS, the GAME within the FOREST of INGLEWOOD, has of late Years been greatly injured by Unqualified Persons, Poachers, &c.: > > Notice is hereby given to all such Persons, > > That the strictest vigilance will in future be used to discover Offenders, and that all who are detected in such practices will be > punished with the utmost rigour of the Law. > > EDWARD HASELL, > Bow-Bearer of Inglewood Forest. > > Dalemain, Aug. 11, 1819. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TO BE LET, BY PROPOSALS, > FOR A TERM OF YEARS, AND ENTERED UPON AT CANDLEMAS FIRST, > > A FARM at WELTON, in the Parish of Sebergham, in the County of Cumberland; consisting of a good Dwelling-House with suitable > Out-buildings, and Two Orchards, and about Thirty-five Acres of good Arable, Meadow, and Grassing Land, well watered and fenced. > > For further Particulars apply to Mr. HENRY FRIZELL, the Owner and present Occupier, who will receive Proposals until WEDNESDAY the > 25th instant, when the Tenant will be declared upon the Premises. > > August 11, 1819. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > HARRIS'S BANKRUPTCY. > > WHEREAS, a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against THOMAS HARRIS, of LIVERPOOL, in the County of Lancaster, > Master Mariner, Merchant, Dealer and Chapman, formerly of Maryport, in the County of Cumberland, Corn and Flour Dealer, and he being > declared a Bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Commission named, or the major part of > them, on the 9th, 11th, and 28th of AUGUST instant, at One o'Clock in the afternoon on each day, at the George Inn, in Dale Street, > in Liverpool, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his Estate and Effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared > to prove their Debts, and at the second sitting to chuse Assignees, and at the last sitting the said Bankrupt is required to finish > his examination, and the Creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate.—All persons indebted to the > said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but > give notice to Messrs. PRITT and KEWLEY. Solicitors, Water-Street, Liverpool, or Messrs. BLACKSTOCK and BUNCE, Solicitors, King's > Bench Walks, Temple, London. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > BLACK LYNE INCLOSURE. > > I, JOHN NORMAN, the Commissioner, named and appointed in and by an Act of Parliament passed in the 56th Year of the Reign of his > present Majesty, intituled "An Act for Inclosing Blacklyne Common, in the Parish of Bewcastle, in the County of Cumberland,"— > > DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, > > That in pursuance of the said Act, and of another Act passed in the 41st Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled "An Act > for consolidating in one Act, certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts of Inclosure; and for facilitating the mode of proving the > several facts usually required in the passing of such Acts;" I, the said Commissioner, have set out and appointed the following > Roads through and over the Lands intended to be divided and inclosed under and by virtue of the said first mentioned Act, (that is > to say): > > OCCUPATION ROADS. > >> From a Gate in the ancient inclosed Ground of JANE LAMB, to an Allotment of Common sold to JAMES ROBERT GEORGE GRAHAM, Esq. > >> From the first mentioned Road, at the South West Corner of WILLIAM KYLE'S Allotment, across the Allotment of JAMES ROBERT GEORGE > GRAHAM, Esq., in a North East direction, for the Occupation of the several Peat Mosses situate in the last mentioned Allotment. > >> From the first mentioned Road, across the Allotment set out to the Heirs of WILLIAM ROUTLEDGE deceased, for the Occupation of a Peat > Moss therein, set out to ALLAN ROUTLEDGE. > >> From the first mentioned Road, across the North End of RICHARD ROUTLEDGE'S Allotment, for the use of WILLIAM KYLE and the future > Occupiers of his Estate, at High Onset, to carry Peats. > >> From the first mentioned Road, across the Allotment of GEORGE DODGSON, for the Occupation of a public Limestone Quarry, situate in > such Allotment. > > AND I FURTHER GIVE NOTICE, > > That a Map, whereon the said several Roads are laid down and described, is deposited with Messrs. MOUNSEY & SISSON, Solicitors, in > Carlisle, for the Inspection of all Persons interested; and that I intend to hold a Meeting at the House of ARCHIBALD GOODFELLOW, > Innkeeper, Bolton-Fell-End, in the County of Cumberland, on Monday the 6th Day of September, at 11 o'Clock in the Forenoon, when and > where any Person or Persons who shall think himself, herself, or themselves injured or aggrieved by the setting out of any of the > aforesaid Roads, is and are required to attend, in order to specify his, her, or their objections thereto respectively, otherwise > the said Roads will be confirmed by me at such meeting. > > Given under my Hand, this Seventh Day of August, 1819. JOHN NORMAN. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message