ROSELEIGH Owners and Occupiers (continued):

In the 1867 Rates Book Fred. Mozley is recorded as owner/ occupier of Roseleigh, R.V. £150, extent (1a.3r.38p), very nearly 2 acres. The house was then empty for 12 months and

1869-1874
Geo. A. MacKenzie was owner/occupier who in 1865 had been at 17 Canning Street as a merchant and a Scot. We see from the 1871 census that he was away from home that night; Elizabeth, his Scottish born wife was 43 & described herself as working in a Merchants Office; they had a 2 year old daughter; Annie MacKenzie, his sister aged 43 was staying with them; and there were 6 servants including a coachman and a lady's maid - non local. George MacKenzie died in 1874 leaving under £30,000. During his ownership the R.V. was £180.

1875
the house was empty.

1876-1879
Walter Ewing Crum, a Liverpool merchant, became the owner occupier in 1876 (R.V. now £240) and also rented nearly 5 acres of land on the opposite side of Acrefield Rd from the exors. of Joseph L. Palethorpe (cotton broker), but Mr Crum did not stay long.

1879-1888
Alfred Tate, born 1846, son of (Sir) Henry Tate (1819-1899) sugar refiner, himself a sugar refiner, after occupying the house for a year, bought it in 1880. The 1881 census tells us he was 35, his wife Blanche (née Hutton) was 28, they had 3 children aged 5, 4 & 2 of whom the 2 younger and the baby to be born in May were baptised in Gateacre Unitarian Chapel. They had 4 servants and they remained here until 1888. During the ownership of Alfred Tate the R.V. rose from £241 in 1879 to a peak of £255 in 1883-4 and then fell back to £217 by 1885.

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