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Transcripts of Early 18th Century Inventories
by Alan Roberts
Part 3: A Schoolmaster, a Fashionable Lady and the Horse Collar Maker
A further six inventories from 1727-1749, including three more women's inventories have been transcribed and set out below. One belonging to Nathaniel Stretton, the village schoolmaster, gives no hint of his employment and its possible he may have been retired.
Of the women who left inventories, Mary Woolferston (1727) is identified as a widow, with sufficient furnishings to have lived comfortably in her retirement. Sarah Grundy (1732) had very few possessions apart from money in her purse, but she must have been comfortably off as she had money owing to her from loans, £3 from Mrs Pratt and £84 listed as “promissory notes” in her inventory. The clothing and household goods listed in Mary Stanton’s inventory drawn up in 1742 suggest that she was one of Appleby’s more prosperous and well attired 18th century inhabitants for the appraisers include among a long list of her household goods, luxury items such as mirrors and a lavish wardrobe of fashionable clothing - quilted petticoats, lace, velvet cloaks, a velvet hat and black silk scarves. In addition to this she had a stock of haberdashery, 11½ yards of WoollenJersey, 5½ yards of Tammy and 21 night caps. These finished goods and materials - probably used for trading stock or piecework - provide further evidence of the establishment of a cottage clothworking industry in the parish. While there is no definite proof she was a lady of quality herself, Mary certainly seems to have had an interest in fine clothes. Although her own goods and chattels came to modest £25.9.9 Mary was far from destitute. Her family connections are uncertain. She may have been a descendant of Thomas Stanton who baptised a daughter named Mary in the early 1700s, or the widow of Hugh Stanton, a Gentleman, who died in 1717 worth £1178 (leaving an inventory too long to be transcribed here).
The final inventory, that of William Faux, a collarmaker, drawn up in 1749, mentions a workshop with a stock of leather and tools for fashioning horse collars, and further hints of a possible income earning sidelines from farming and beekeeping. The occasional mention of “workshops”, and abundant evidence of dairy production, brewing and other domestic activities, along with inventory records of goods, grain and produce in storage, suggest that by the mid eighteenth-century Appleby was already quite a bustling place.
Mary Woolferston, 1727, widow
A True and perfect Inventory of all the Goods and Chattels of Mary Woolferston of Appleby, Widow Deceased, made and taken by us whose Names are underwritten:
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£ |
s |
d |
Purse and Apparel |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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In the Kitchen |
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A Jack Spit and Cobbards |
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10 |
0 |
An Andiron, fire shovel and tongs and other small things- |
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10 |
0 |
Eleven Pewter Dishes and Six Plates |
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15 |
0 |
Two Pottage Potts, two Kettles and a brass pan |
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15 |
0 |
A Cupboard and Dresser and a Table |
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7 |
6 |
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In the Parlour |
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One Bed and Materials |
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1 |
0 |
Two little Tables and three Chairs |
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5 |
0 |
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In the Chamber over the Parlour |
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Three Beds and Materials |
2 |
0 |
0 |
Two Coffers, a Table and a form and other odd things |
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10 |
0 |
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In the Chamber over the Kitchen |
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One Bed and a pair of Bedsteads |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Three Coffers and two Boxes and other Lumber |
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7 |
6 |
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In the Store Chamber |
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Some Cheese |
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10 |
0 |
Three Barrels, two Tubbs, two pails and a Galeon and other old Lumber } |
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10 |
0 |
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Out of Doors |
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Two Cows and a Calf |
7 |
0 |
0 |
A Pigg |
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11 |
0 |
Some Hey |
1 |
10 |
0 |
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£19 |
12 |
0 |
September 5th 1727 |
Sarah Grundy, 1732, widow or spinster
An Inventory of the Goods,Cattle, Chattles and Personall Estate of Sarah Grundy late of Great Appleby deceased, found and appraised this seventeenth day of Aprill Anno Domini 1732, by us whose names are hereunto inscribed as follows:
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£ |
s |
d |
Imprimis Her Purse and Apparell |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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One chest of Drawers, one Bed and Bedstead |
1 |
8 |
0 |
Two Boxes, one Trunk with Linnen |
1 |
12 |
0 |
One Promissery Note from Thomas Moore for |
60 |
0 |
0 |
One Promissery Note from Thomas Grundy for |
18 |
0 |
0 |
One Promissery Note from Isaac Shilton for |
6 |
0 |
0 |
Lent Mrs Pratt |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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£100 |
0 |
0 |
M: White
Signed in the presence of |
Nathaniel Stretton, 1739, schoolmaster
An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Mr Nathaniell Stretton late of Little Appleby in the County of Leicester, Schoolmaster Deceased- Taken and Appraised this 3rd May, 1739
By us: John Hear, Thomas Pickering } Appraisers
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£ |
s |
d |
Imprimis His Purse and Wearing Apparel |
15 |
0 |
0 |
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In the House |
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One Land Iron, One Jack, a Screen, Brass and Pewter, Tables and Chairs and other odd things } |
5 |
0 |
0 |
In the Brewhouse |
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One Copper, 3 Tubs & the Brewing Vessells |
5 |
0 |
0 |
In the Cellar 9 Casks or Vessells |
1 |
15 |
0 |
In the 1st Chamber, 1 Bed, 1 box and 6 Chairs |
3 |
0 |
0 |
In the 2nd Chamber, 2 Beds, 1 Chest of Linnen and 1 Chest of Drawers } |
4 |
0 |
0 |
In the 3rd Chamber, 1 Bed, 1 Table & 6 Chairs |
2 |
7 |
6 |
Item Malt and Malt Mill |
2 |
10 |
0 |
Item 1 Cow and Hay in the Stable Loft |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Item 1 Chest in the Stables |
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2 |
6 |
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£39 |
15 |
5 |
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Mary Stanton, 1742, widow or spinster
Febr: 24, 1742. An Inventory of the Goods, Chatells, Money and wareing Apparell of Mary Stanton of Appleby in the county of Darby:
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£ |
s |
d |
In the Kitchen |
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3 pare stays |
1 |
5 |
0 |
4 Gounds |
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15 |
0 |
2 Quilted petticoats |
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7 |
6 |
2 Clokes, a long & short one |
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4 |
0 |
3 Black Silk scarves |
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4 |
6 |
1 Black hood with old silk |
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2 |
0 |
1 Velvett hatt |
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2 |
6 |
11½ yards of Woolen Jersey |
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16 |
6 |
5½ Do. Of Tammy |
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5 |
0 |
1 New bed lick |
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15 |
0 |
6 Aprons, 7 White handkerchiefs |
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8 |
6 |
21 Night Caps, 5 pare sleevs |
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6 |
10 |
9 peices old lace |
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6 |
1 Parsnet hood & old rebrnes [ribbons] |
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6 |
1 Silk apron & 2 handkerchiefs |
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1 |
6 |
7 pare gloves, 2 pare shoos |
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3 |
6 |
17 shifts, 4 handkerchiefs, 4 capps |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 Coloured Aprons, 3 pare stockens & pockets |
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2 |
0 |
1 Fann tipett & laces |
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6 |
1 Fire Grate tonngs & pott hooks |
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7 |
6 |
1 Frying pan, lock Iron & heater |
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1 |
0 |
65 Pounds of old pewter |
1 |
10 |
0 |
2 Brass ketles 17 pounds |
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12 |
3 |
2 Bell metle potts 30 pounds |
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12 |
0 |
1 Ovel table & Reel |
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8 |
6 |
4 Chiers, 1 Squar table, screens furm |
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1 |
0 |
1 Chest drawers, Cubard & spice press |
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2 |
0 |
1 Looking glass, lawn seive Brush & ye pattoons |
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1 |
6 |
a parcell of Remants |
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1 |
0 |
1 Wood morter, 2 Iron pestells, 17 pounds of Lead |
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3 |
0 |
4 knives & 4 forkes |
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8 |
13 strike barley, 14 strike Weat |
3 |
4 |
0 |
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In the Buttery |
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4 Berells, percell of earthenware |
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4 |
0 |
12 Trenchers, 7 bottles, 2 boal dishes |
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2 |
6 |
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In the Parlour |
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2 Bolsters, a pillow, 1 feather bed, 71 pounds |
1 |
15 |
0 |
8 Blankets & a bedstead |
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8 |
0 |
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In the Chamber |
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2 Bolster,1 feather bed 64 Pounds |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 Ditto, 4 Pillows, 1 featherbed |
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10 |
0 |
2 Pare bedsteads |
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9 |
0 |
5 Coffers |
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8 |
0 |
9 Sheets |
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15 |
9 |
Table lyen [linnen] & pillow cases |
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9 |
6 |
Coles & Lumber |
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7 |
0 |
To ye Weat Crop on ye Ground |
1 |
10 |
0 |
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In the House of Thomas Taverner |
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To old Lumber |
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19 |
0 |
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£23 |
9 |
9 |
To Money |
19 |
0 |
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£25 |
9 |
9 |
All the above Mentioned Goods was valued & Apraised by John Vaughton |
Thomas Sheldon, 1745, husbandman (?)
An Inventory of Chattles and Cattle of Thomas Sheldon of Appleby, deceased, Feb: 27th, 1745:
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£ |
s |
d |
Imprimis Purse and apparrell |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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Goods in the house and Iron, potthooks & small Irons |
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10 |
0 |
A Clock |
2 |
0 |
0 |
a Dresser |
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12 |
0 |
Brass and Pewter |
2 |
2 |
6 |
Kneading tubb and six Chairs |
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6 |
0 |
One Bacon Flitch |
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10 |
0 |
Other Lumber in the house |
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2 |
6 |
In the Chamber |
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One bed and Chest, a box and Chair |
2 |
3 |
6 |
In the other Chamber |
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One bedd Two peals, one Kinnell, three boxes |
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17 |
0 |
Other Lumber in the Chamber |
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5 |
0 |
Two Iron seives & hair seives |
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3 |
0 |
Malt and cheese |
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2 |
0 |
In the Parlour |
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One bed and Blanketts and Hangings |
2 |
5 |
0 |
One Table, six Chairs, one box, a Close stool |
1 |
11 |
0 |
and a Joynt stool |
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17 |
0 |
Other Lumber in the Parlour |
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1 |
6 |
In the Cellar |
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Three barrells, Two Tubbs |
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8 |
0 |
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Two Mares |
7 |
0 |
9 |
Three Cows |
8 |
15 |
9 |
Two Stirks |
2 |
10 |
9 |
Two Piggs |
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15 |
9 |
One stake Calfe |
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7 |
6 |
One Waggon |
4 |
5 |
9 |
Muck in the yard |
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13 |
9 |
Cheese Press, forks, spade and other Lumber |
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7 |
9 |
Wheat and Barley and Pease growing upon the ground |
4 |
10 |
9 |
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£43 |
10 |
6 |
Appraised by us {Richard Wathewf |
William Faux, 1749, Collarmaker
An Inventory of the Goods, Catttell and Chattells of William Faux, late of Appleby in the County of Leicester, Derby, Collarmaker, deceased, taken and Appraised the 17th Day of October 1749:
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£ |
s |
d |
First His purse and Wearing Apparil |
1 |
1 |
0 |
also In the House Land Iron and fire irons, |
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5 |
0 |
2 Tables, 6 Chairs, 1 Dresser, Brass, Pewter and other things } |
2 |
0 |
0 |
In the Parlar |
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1 Bed, 6 Chairs and Hanging press and other things |
1 |
10 |
0 |
In the Second Parlar |
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1 Table and Chairs and other things |
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5 |
0 |
In the 1st Chamber |
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1 Bed, a Cofer and other things |
1 |
10 |
0 |
In the 2nd Chamber |
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1 Bed, a Cofer and other things |
1 |
1 |
0 |
Goods in the Shop, Leather & Tools |
4 |
1 |
0 |
In the Barn Hay and Corn and Pease |
1 |
17 |
0 |
One Mare and a Cow |
3 |
15 |
0 |
One Swine |
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8 |
0 |
Bees in the Garden |
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6 |
0 |
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£17 |
19 |
0 |
Appraisers: Joseph Adies, Thomas Pickering |
© Inventories transcribed by Alan Roberts, November 2002