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A History of the County of Oxford
… Barfoot share passed in 1703 to the Witney clothier John Collier, who in 1705 agreed a complex partition of the … northern bays of a separate work-house. The Ashfield and Collier families retained their interests in the fulling mill … from the copyhold fulling mill shared by the Ashfield and Collier families; 30 land attached to Tasker's mills totalled …
A History of the County of Oxford
… one of the Colliers of Witney, perhaps the clothier John Collier (fl. 156594), sold 30 blankets to the earl of … Hall in London in the 1560s included members of the Collier, Bishop, Jones, Rankell, and Yate families, 41 and … hiring apprentices and joining the Company: in 1724 Robert Collier left his wife a house in Burford and a loom in case …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the churchwardens in 17923, and a partly occupied row remained in 1816, but was removed before 1840. 51 By the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or 70 to a dozen or fewer, mostly members of the Early and Collier families, together with John Brice, John Brooks, … Mills, while most others employed 2035 weavers, and Robert Collier only four. 20 By 1851 John Early employed 144 people, … in 1814 and acquired in 1830 by Horatio and Robert Collier, themselves in difficulty a few years later, 22 while …
A History of the County of Oxford
… criticism from the Nonconformist blanket-maker Robert Collier for enforcing Anglican worship and education beyond … 1840s was effected by the usher and writing master Charles Collier (appointed 1846), a vigorous teacher who provided the … proportion of pupils were actually from Witney. In 1867 Collier resigned over his unwillingness, as a convert to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… said to be 'in' or 'opposite' the shambles or butcher row, presumably replaced temporary stalls or booths, and may … further north beyond the town hall, called Middle Row, existed by the 1580s, when two houses there were sold to … laid out apparently in the early 19th century; Buswells Row, a cottage row at Corn Street's south-west end, was built …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from three to four cottages before 1761, were rebuilt as a row of six in 1795. 43 Sometimes division followed from … draper, who had inherited them from her father William Collier in 1802. 110 The location of such housing was largely … 34 Corn Street (in 1840 the house of its owner, Horatio Collier) comprised a stone, three-storeyed weaving shop and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local victuallers and, in the 1730s, the surgeon Francis Collier (d. 1741), who then owned the premises; expenses, … one external tap in 1945, 266 probably typical of the row. Health Provision Witney had surgeons and apothecaries …