The County of Durham | ||||
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The Names of the Several Persons who Sustained any Loss or Damage by the Great Flood in November 1771, and an Account of the Value | ||||
of such Loss or Damage as the same have been Certifyed or Allowed at a Meeting of Committee held at the House of Mr Peter Blenkinsop in the North Bailey in | ||||
Durham on Thursday the Twenty Seventh day of February Instant for taking into Consideration the Several Objects according to the Returns made by the Several | ||||
Ministers and other Creditable Persons in the Neighbourhood of such Sufferers as the same have been delivered or sent to the Clerk of the Place for the said County | ||||
in Pursuance of Two Several Advertisements inserted in the Newcastle Courant. | ||||
Present | ||||
Sir John Eden Baronet Chairman | Morton Davison } | |||
The Reverend Doctor Dickens | Henry Wilkinson } | |||
The Reverend Doctor Douglas | William Rudd } | Esquires | ||
The Reverend Doctor Dane | Henry Mills } | |||
and } | ||||
The Reverend Jno Rotheram Clerk | John Drake Bainbridge } | |||
Original | ||||
Durham* | Loss as | |||
The Parish of Saint Nicholas | Certifyed | Proportion of relief Money recd | To be further | |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | £ s d | s £ s d £ s d | relieved | |
John Mitchell | Shoemaker | 10: 0: 0 | a 20 in pd 10: 0: 0 3: 0: 0 | 7: 0: 0 |
Mary Chicken | Widow | 0: 5: 0 | 0: 5: 0 | |
Jane Atkinson | Widow | 30: 0: 0 | a 15 in pd 22: 10: 0 5: 5: 0 | 17: 5: 0 |
Rowland Stout | Butcher | 14: 0: 0 | 10: 10: 0 3: 3: 0 | 7: 0: 0 |
Thomas Vipond | Shoemaker | 8: 0: 0 | a 20 in pd 8: 0: 0 2: 2: 0 | 5:18: 0 |
Hugh Short | Cooper | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | |
Margaret Clark | Widow | 1: 0: 0 | 1: 0: 0 | |
Ann Glover | Widow | 1: 0: 0 | 1: 0: 0 | |
Mary Ditchburn | Widow | 1: 1: 0 | 1: 1: 0 | |
Original | ||||
Durham* | Loss as | |||
The Parish of Saint Nicholas | Certifyed | Proportion of relief Money recd | To be further | |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | £ s d | s £ s d £ s d | relieved | |
Thomas Hodgson | Weaver | 1:11: 0 | a 20 in pd | 1:11: 0 |
William Talbot | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | ||
Robert Ebdon | 0:16: 0 | 0:16: 0 | ||
Jane Grieve | Widow | 1: 0: 0 | 1: 0: 0 | |
Thomas Shaw | Skinner | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | |
Thomas Wears | Shoemaker | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | |
John Proudfoot | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | ||
Christopher Airson | 0:10: 0 | 0:10: 0 | ||
John Bryan | 0:11: 0 | 0:11: 0 |
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