NOTES FOR ACT 3
| Page & topic | Notes |
| 25: new Act | Copies of the Act available for reference at WRO. Note that there was a third Act, introduced to Parliament in January 1727/8 and passed in January 1731/2, to pay for improvements by increasing the number of years full toll could be collected. |
| 25: start of pier work | Historical notes written in Moresby Parish Register |
| 25: Pier design | Extant foundations- well worth a look at low tide |
| 25: Carlisle Spedding & collieries | Beckett "Carlisle Spedding" + Wood "West Cumberland Coal" |
| 26: independence | Agreement transcribed in Moresby Parish Register (WRO YPR 15/1) |
| 26: Lamplugh present | Deed in CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, 6 Mar 1728/9 |
| 26: Margaret dies | Lamplugh parish registers (microfilm at WRO): marriage 15 Jul 1731; death 21 Jul 1731 |
| 26: Thomas heir | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, deeds dated 22-23 Apr 1737 + will of Richard Brisco, 8 Nov 1749 NB the dispute over the Lamplugh inheritance seems not to have affected the Parton property significantly |
| 26: Manor sale | Quoted in Brooker "The Fletcher Family": transaction date 24 March 1737/8 |
| 26: Lowther musing | Quoted in Wood "West Cumberland Coal": dated 20 May 1738 |
| 26: John Clerk | Journal of a visit to the collieries in Whitehaven (CWAAS 2-65) |
| 26: Whitehaven turnpikes | Act at WRO; see also
Hay "Whitehaven..." + Williams, L.A. "Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century" (1975) + Hindle, Paul "Roads and tracks of the Lake District" (1998) |
| 26-27: Todhunter | CRO Q/11/1/241 + 244 Cumberland Quarter Sessions: Christmas petitions 1747-8 (online catalogue entry) |
| 27: road maintenance | D/LONS/W8/13/1, Moresby court book, 9 Dec 1763 |
| 27: Iron shipments | Fletcher, H.A. "The archaeology of the West Cumberland iron trade" (CWAAS 1-5), quoting documents from a dispute in 1767 |
| 27: Walker / Threlkeld | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deeds dated 17 Aug 1707 + 1 Aug 1716 |
| 27: shoemakers | Moresby Parish Register (WRO YPR 15/1) + Bishop's Transcripts |
| 27+ 30: Hartley property | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deed dated 25 Feb 1782 |
| 28-29: 1835 Plan | Original, by W Gaythorp, WRO DH 276. See also enlarged edition of this interpretation |
| 30: Manor court | D/LONS/W8/13/1, Moresby court book, 23 Jul 1787 + 1 Jun 1789 |
| 30: oil-yard | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deed dated 21 Jan 1793 (+ 3 May 1796) |
| 30: mortgage | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deed dated 5 May 1814 |
| 30: assignment & auction | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deeds dated 14-15 May 1817 + auction advert in the "Cumberland Pacquet", 7 Jan 1817 |
| 30-31: Tannery plan & picture | Plan and elevations made at time of purchase by the Earl of Lonsdale, 1817 (in CRO D LONS W.10). Elevations include E & W fronts of both the main tannery building and the Morocco factory, plus floor plans. |
| 31: Hodgson | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1713, deeds dated 14-15 Jan 1782 |
| 31: Waugh | CRO QF/21/3, Poor Rate property list, 1810 |
| 31: Norman | See trade directories for the creative variety of descriptions of the Norman business. +
CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, deeds dated 30-31 Aug 1830 + CRO QF/22/10, Rate assessment for Parton, 16 Sep 1847, plot 48 |
| 31: Brewery Brow skinner | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, brewery site deeds dated 12 Aug 1799 |
| 31: other tanners | See trade directories.
More work needed on this; for example a William Bell, associated with the Normans, died in 1842 |
| 31: Henry Jackson | WRO YDX 225/4 deed dated 25 Apr 1745 +
CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1712, deed dated 18 Aug 1747 |
| 31-32; Spedding & Co. | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, deeds dated 17 Aug 1752 + 4 Jul 1755 + 14 Jul 1755 |
| 32: Barepots | Lancaster, J.Y. & Wattleworth, D.R. "The Iron and Steel Industry of West Cumberland" (1977) |
| 32: brewery expansion | CRO D Lons W.9/Box 1711, deeds dated 18-19 Feb 1756 + 16-17 May 1760 + 19-20 May 1760 + 9 Apr 1767 |
| 32: Brewery 1790s | A bit of supposition here, assuming that the brewery was not closed down for a significant time in the 1790s: neither Spedding & Co. nor their successors Harrison & Co. appear in the 1794 Whitehaven trade directory listing, although Harrison's Whitehaven business records go back to 1783
(National Register of Archives, 23766 Allison) |
| 32: Colliery profits | Wood "West Cumberland Coal" |
| 32: Shipping survey | Hay "Whitehaven: A Short History" (1968) p30 |
| 32: Iron ore | Fletcher "West Cumberland iron trade" (CWAAS 1-05) |
| 32: storms | Reports in "Cumberland Pacquet" 10 Nov 1795 + 2 Feb 1796 |
| 33 Moresby development | Local maps, late 18th & early 19th centuries; for Milham Hartley see WRO D/BH24/32 (and others in this deposit relating to the family in the early 19th century) |
| 33: 1798 case | Transcripts of letters etc. in WRO YPR 15/1, Parish register |