Bradbury - Appendix 19-20 - Burgage Rents - Electors Lists

APPENDIX 19 1894-5 Burgage Rents

Examples from the 120 properties which Lord Lonsdale held in Cockermouth in 1894-5.

Bailey’s exors. Main Street : 3s

  1. B. Banks : 2s + 1s+ 1s

Brash, Challoner Street : 2d

Teetotal Lane property : 1s

Carlisle, County and District Bank, Cocker Bridge : 1s

Grecian Villa (John Dodgson) : 2d

Jennings ‘Old Brewery’ : 4d

Hope and Anchor, Bush and Wheatsheaf : each 6d

Blue Bell : 5s

Ship and George and Dragon : each 2s

Public Hall : 4d

New Market Company : 2s

Savings Bank, Cocker Bridge : 1s

Rope Walk, etc., Kirkgate : 2s

Local Board, late Wilson, Cocker Bridge : 6d

Rydiard, late Wilson, Cocker Bridge : 6d

 

 

 

APPENDIX 20 1840 Electors’Lists.

Electors’Lists. 1 December 1840

217 entitled to vote within the borough “in respect of Property occupied within the Township of Cockermouth”. Following are a selection of special interest:

Bailey, Thomas,jnr.

Shop and printing office

Main Street

Bell, John

House, garden and smith’s shop

Main Street

Benson, Robert

Office

Brewery Yard, Market Place

Birkett, John

Weaving shops and warehouse

Gallowbarrow Lane

Burnett, John

House and smithy

Kirkgate

Bushby, William

Maltkiln

Back Lane

Cape, William

Timber yard and buildings

Main Street

Clark, John

Hat shops

Main Street

Fisher, John, jnr.

Tannery and buildings

Long Croft Lane

France, William

House and weaving shops

Gallowbarrow

Grave, Joseph

Weaving shop and warehouse

Sand Went

Harris, Jonathan

Weaving shops

Holmes’s Yard

Hodgson, John

House and brewery

Main Street

McAdam, Robert

House, cellar and weaving shops

Kirkgate

Mackreth, William

House and brickkilns

T ownhead

Pickering, John

House, mill and land

Double Mills

Richardson, John, jnr.

Tannery and buildings

Brewery Lane

Richardson, John

House and brewery

Old Brewery

Robinson, Thomas

House and dyehouses

Stoddart’s Yard

Smith, Richard

House and factory

Globe Lane and Cocker Side

Swinburn, Joseph

Maltkiln

S1. Helen’s Street

Threlkeld, Joseph

House, garden and tanyard

S1. Helen’s Street and Long Croft Lane

Wharton, Joshua

Thread manufactory

Rubby Banks Mill

 

The 1865 electors’ list includes:

Armstrong, John

House, shop, timber yard

South Street

Bateman, Richard

Skinyard and buildings

73 Kirkgate head

Fleming, Joseph

House and spirit vaults

Castle Street

Herbert, Joseph and William

Foundry

Brewery Lane

Hewitson, Robert

House and smithy

Derwent Street

Huddart, Jonathan

Smithy, byre and land

Crown Street

Armstrong, John

House, shop, timber yard

South Street

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