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THE COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT

DEBTORS.

At the Court-House, at Sheffield, in the County

of York, on the 28th day of June 1839, at

Ten o'clock in the Forenoon.

John Turner, late of Rockingham-street, previously of Olive street

, 'and formerly of Trafalgar-street, and formerly of

Norfolk-street, and Cheney-square, and Blind-lane, all in.

Sheffield, Pen Knife Grinder. .

George Hobbis, late of Holly-street, or 'Blind-lane, Sheffield,

Table-Knife Cutler.

London Gazette - 7 June 1839 Issue number: 19740

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Almond, Roger (, victualler).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

France, Jonathan (, filesmith).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Howson, George (, victualler, scissorsmith).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Hoyland, Samuel (, victualler, scissorsmith).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Kennington, James (, cutler).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Oates, John (, scissorsmith).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

Wilkinson, Thomas (, cutler).

Residing at Blind Lane, in 1787.

Gales & Martin Directory of Sheffield - 1787.

All from Sheffield Indexers

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ROBERTS, Samuel, of Sheffield, buttonmaker,

written 8 Dec 1780, sister Hannah HANCOCK & her children (not named) “all of my .. messuages, tenements or dwellinghouses situate in Blind lane in Sheffield which I lease under the Earl of Surrey”, neice Elizabeth ROBERTS daughter of late brother Gilbert ROBERTS, Joseph ROBERTS of Sheffield, gent.

“my freehold messuages & tenements with appurtenances in Sheffield or elsewhere”.

Witnesses: Francis PARKER, George CADMAN & William BRIGHTMORE.

ancestry.com

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George Hobbis, late of Holly Street, or Blind Lane, Sheffield, Table knife Cutler.

Insolvent debtor, 28th June 1839 (Ten O'Clock)

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On your left was Blind Lane, a very narrow old Street; the houses was unregular built, no West Street. All at the back of Blind Lane on your right hand was fields and Gardens. This Blind Lane continued a very narrow .street untill it came to the top of Coal Pitt Lane. The Balm Green, on your left hand; this Balm green was composed of very old houses, but no regular Street. At the entrance of Blind Lane on your right hand was a foot road (in being now) at the back of the Brown Cow.

http://www.jimsdesk.co.uk/1832.html

1832

"May Yorkshire wives be like Sheffield knives, highly polished and well tempered"

A great read.

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The smoky environment of Sheffield, resulting from the large number of small hand forges or smithies in the town, was compounded in the first two decades of the eighteenth century by the introduction of the cementation furnace; the earliest known sites being at Blind Lane (near Barkers Pool) and Steelhouse Lane (just outside the ‘Crofts’)

http://sytimescapes.org.uk/zones/sheffield/S10

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Blind Lane.— Blind here means dark, obscure. Chaucer speaks of "blind lanes."

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hall_of_Waltheof/Chapter_XIX

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25 March 1851

Enoch Eaton, of Sheffield, silver plater, to the Trustees. Messuages, public house, brewhouses and workshops in or near Blind Lane or Holly St., Sheffield.

Formerly in the occupation of Jonathan Williamson, George Smith, and others,

Afterwards of Widow Williamson, James Brammall, Thomas Hurt, John Adams and others, but now or late in the several occupations of John Green, John Shephard, John Hatfield or James Ashmore, their under tenant, and of Thomas Hurst, Thomas Hobbis, John Burton and Benjamin Innocent.

Together with the site and an adjacent piece of land (359 sq.yds).

For £500 and pursuant to the Sheffield Street Improvement Act of 9-10 Victoria (1846). Reciting deeds of 1828 and 1841 relating to the mortgage and conveyance of the same property. Plan by Flockton & Son. (4035)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=199-tt&cid=-1#-1

(small edits to make it more readable, paragraphs even.)

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19 Aug 1795

The trustees to Edward Alanson, of Sheffield, cutler. 73 sq.yds. ground in Blind Lane with the 3 messuages thereon. For a term of 99 years. Annual rent of 10s. Plan.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=199-tt&cid=-1#-1

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19 Aug 1795

The Trustees to Edward Brownell, of Sheffield, cutler. 311 sq.yds. land in Blind Lane. For a term of 99 years. Annual rent of £2 5s. Lessee to build within 3 years one or more houses worth £300. Plan.

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Deeds relating to land in Blind Lane (Holly St.), Sheffield, leased out by the Trustees in 1794 and surrendered to them in 1892 (4110) TT/132 1794-1892

Lease TT/132/1 31 Mar 1794

Contents:

The Trustees to Thomas Ashmore, of Sheffield, mason. 209 sq.yds. in Blind Lane. For a term of 99 years. Annual rent of 17s. Lessee to build within 3 years one or more houses worth at least £100.

Mortgage TT/132/2 5 May 1794

Contents:

Thomas Ashmore, as TT/132/1, with the assent of the Trustees, to Thomas Pierson, of Sheffield, stationer. The leasehold premises as TT/132/1. To secure a principal of £300 with interest at 5%

Assignment of a lease TT/132/3 26 June 1805

Contents:

Thomas Ashmore, of Sheffield, bricklayer, with his mortgagee, Thomas Pierson, as TT/132/2, and his creditors, Godfrey Fox, of Sheffield, gent., John Senior, of Sheffield, joiner, and George Hawley, of Sheffield, innkeeper, to Timothy Millington, of Sheffield, hat manufacturer The leasehold premises of TT/132/1. For £300 paid to Pierson.

Surrender of the lease TT/132/4 4 Jul 1892

Contents:

Edwin Pendleton and John Merrill, both of Holly St., Sheffield, electro-platers and gilders, to the Trustees. Part (120 sq.yds.) of the leasehold premises of TT/132/1. In consideration of the grant of a further lease to Pendleton and Frank Horatio Dix.

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The Sunday School movement was brought into being by the fervour of Robert Raikes, editor of the Gloucester Journal.

Struck by the wretched appearance of children in the streets, he found that on Sundays these children

were released from their work, and it was an ensuing profanation of the Sabbath which induced him to think of schools for them on that day. So he engaged several women who kept schools in the neighbourhood to receive such children as he should send and give them instruction in the catechism and reading, and he paid each of those women a shilling per week for her trouble.

He gathered the children together, gave them books, and settled their little quarrels, until his example was copied elsewhere in the city, and in a few years Sunday schools were established in almost every part of the country.

Mr. Raikes' experiment first came into being in 1781, and my readers will remember the centenary of the movement as celebrated in Sheffield. In the course of five years it had spread so greatly that it was then estimated that 250,000 children were receiving education in the Sunday schools, and a Sunday School Society was formed in 1785 for encouragement of such schools by pecuniary aid.

The movement spread all over the world, America accepting the idea in 1816. Harking back, we find the movement accepted in Sheffield in 1785. This first school on the site of the Hospital was moved to Holly Lane, or Blind Lane, as it was then called.

http://youle.info/history/fh_material/Making_of_Sheffield/6-UNIV.TXT

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