Kelham ...

[RichardB]

Kelham Island is named after whom ? What was his trade ? Did he carry out another important function ? Was he a bit naughty in 1637 ?

[syrup]

Kellam Homer, ?, Town Armourer, ?.

[RichardB]

Kellam Homer, ?, Town Armourer, ?.

That would appear to be the man, I thought he had a trade as well as being Town Armourer, Well found that Syrup !

So that just leaves the question was he a bit naughty ?

Obviously, he was, otherwise I wouldn't be asking the question ...

[Guest Gramps]

Well in 1637 one Kellam Fletcher was 6s. 8d. in arrears with his rent, but there's no evidence, other than his Christian name, that he had any connection with the man after whom Kelham Wheel and Kelham island were named.

Kellam Homer first appears in the Burgery records in 1595...

Item, paid unto Kellam Holmer the fourth of July 1595 for dressinge of the towne Armour xv s.

The earliest recorded lease of the Kelham Wheel was in 1604 to Kellam Homer with partners George Smedley and John Swyfte, but there's no evidence that they built the wheel or how long before that date it had existed.

[syrup]

http://www.simt.co.uk/kelham/kelham-1.html

A History of Kelham Island

Kelham Island itself is one of the oldest industrial sites in Sheffield. The island was first formed in the 1100s when the goit, or mill stream, was created alongside the lane leading to where the museum stands today. This stream was diverted to provide water to the Town Corn Mill, which was located near Lady's Bridge.

There are no further records of the site until the appearance of the town armourer in 1637. He owned a workshop and the second waterwheel on the island, and his name was Kellam Homer. By 1674, this second wheel was known as Kellam Wheel. The spelling of Kellam had been altered to Kelham by the early 1800s and the island had been given the same name.

[RichardB]

http://www.simt.co.uk/kelham/kelham-1.html

A History of Kelham Island

Kelham Island itself is one of the oldest industrial sites in Sheffield. The island was first formed in the 1100s when the goit, or mill stream, was created alongside the lane leading to where the museum stands today. This stream was diverted to provide water to the Town Corn Mill, which was located near Lady's Bridge.

There are no further records of the site until the appearance of the town armourer in 1637. He owned a workshop and the second waterwheel on the island, and his name was Kellam Homer. By 1674, this second wheel was known as Kellam Wheel. The spelling of Kellam had been altered to Kelham by the early 1800s and the island had been given the same name.

The "behaviour" of 1637 relates to Kellam/Kelham and the Town Corn Mill ... this belongs in Quite a difficult Question obviously.

[syrup]

That would appear to be the man, I thought he had a trade as well as being Town Armourer, Well found that Syrup !

So that just leaves the question was he a bit naughty ?

Obviously, he was, otherwise I wouldn't be asking the question ...

Hi Richard

It seems he was an Armour Dresser to the Earl of Arundel and there was a slight hick up in 1642 as you will see below.

The threat from Ireland dominated Ot1ey's sennons, and William Sheils

has asserted the preachers there were soon preparing the congregation for

armed resistance.47 The anxiety must have been excruciating for WaIter

Stanhope of nearby Horsforth, who received a letter describing his son's

flight from his Irish estates at Lisnegarvey. A year later, the whole family

supported Parliament, with two of Walter's sons serving Fairfax as

captains.48

In January 1642, stores of gunpowder were discovered in Bingley

church, allegedly laid by four local Catholic gentry intending to detonate it

while the congregation were within. They immediately fled and arms for

one hundred men were discovered in their houses.49 Such episodes,

however fictionalized, allowed Thomas Stockdale to raise local trained

bands and frame a county petition calling for the 'securing' of papists, the

punishment of 'malicious delinquents', and the moving of the country into a

state of defence, further declaring that those hindering relief to Ireland had

'reduced the fonner untainted Honour of this Nation to an Object of Scorn

and Obloquy,.5o

In this atmosphere, boisterous or drunken words could have serious

consequences. On 11 February 1642, Sir Edward Rodes wrote to infonn

Fairfax that Kellam Homer, armour dresser to the Earl of Arundel himself,

had been heard to say 'that before May day they should have a

peal rung in Sheffield as had not been heard these hundred years.'51

Homer was a known Catholic, so an inventory was made of all the arms

in his charge, which were then removed to Sheffield castle. Although

THE POPISH ARMY OF THE NORTH 17

Homer pleaded his innocence, Sir Edward noted that local inhabitants were

'specially apprehensive', recommending urgent action to disarm recusants,

and secure county magazines.52 Two months later on 13 April 1642,

public outcry against the Irish led to the executions at York of the Catholic

priests John Lockwood and Edmund Catterick.

https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/553/1/R...2520History.pdf

[Guest Gramps]

The "behaviour" of 1637 relates to Kellam/Kelham and the Town Corn Mill ... this belongs in Quite a difficult Question obviously.

Is this what you have in mind ?

"An order was made that Kellam Homer nor any of his tenants to the wheel in Colston Croft shall "grind and glace neither night nor day, but they shall draw the by-shuttle to let the water pass unto the corn mylne, unless they keep their own wheele goinge with sufficient water for the said corn mylne"—default ten shillings.

This grinding wheel was apparently situated on the goit near Millsands, and received the water before it reached the corn mill. Kellam Homer was the town armourer, and the sum of ten pounds was paid him as wages in this capacity in 1637."

A Sheaf of Essays by a Sheffield Antiquary, Charles Drury

[RichardB]

Is this what you have in mind ?

"An order was made that Kellam Homer nor any of his tenants to the wheel in Colston Croft shall "grind and glace neither night nor day, but they shall draw the by-shuttle to let the water pass unto the corn mylne, unless they keep their own wheele goinge with sufficient water for the said corn mylne"—default ten shillings.

This grinding wheel was apparently situated on the goit near Millsands, and received the water before it reached the corn mill. Kellam Homer was the town armourer, and the sum of ten pounds was paid him as wages in this capacity in 1637."

A Sheaf of Essays by a Sheffield Antiquary, Charles Drury

That'll be absolutely spot-on, Well found ! He took too much water-power, affecting the mill.

[Guest Gramps]

That'll be absolutely spot-on, Well found ! He took too much water-power, affecting the mill.

But you made the question more difficult than it needed to be.

The pain laid on Kellam Homer over the operation of the shuttle was at the Court Leet held in 1609, not 1637. See last item on this page.

In fact Homer seems to have relinquished his interest in the wheel by 1637 as a lease of that year mentioms only George Smedley and John Swyfte as lessees.

[RichardB]

But you made the question more difficult than it needed to be.

The pain laid on Kellam Homer over the operation of the shuttle was at the Court Leet held in 1609, not 1637. See last item on this page.

In fact Homer seems to have relinquished his interest in the wheel by 1637 as a lease of that year mentioms only George Smedley and John Swyfte as lessees.

I didn't have any of that information - just a newspaper article from 1939 (with incorrect details as it turns out) - I just got you to search better than I could and provide extra information for us all - which is nice :rolleyes: