THE HOLLIES (continued):

Owners and Occupiers

1840
The 1840 Tithe Map shows the owners to be the Executors of E. L. Brint, the description runs "house, outbuildings and garden on 1 rood 18 perches" and a "field" - of oats - of 3 roods; the occupiers being given as "themselves."

1841
John Tongue, age 20, a Shoemaker, appears to have been here in the 1841 census - if we have it right - with Ellen his wife, 20, and William their son of a year old; maybe they -were tenants? We know no more of them.

c.1842-c.1856
Margaret Burrell (c.1794-1874) a 57 year old widow was living alone here as a "housekeeper" on census night 1851, She was born in Urswick in Low Furness and 10 years before had been in Orrell. The description "housekeeper" seems to imply that there was a householder absent that night. By 1861 we shall meet Mrs Burrell again in Woolton Mount.

1858-1866
James Henry McKinnell (c.1804-1866) a Calico Printer from Manchester (Darbyshire McKinnell & Co, 77 Tower Buildings) came here from Seacombe in 1858. In 1861 we find he was a widower of 57, born in Halifax, and with him was his step-mother Maria, age 5o 'housekeeper', and 2 living-in servants, and 2 more, a Coachman and a gardener apparently in 2 separate establishments.

1867-1874
Joseph Scheuten (c.1828-1905 ) a General Merchant (H. Cox & Co.) came here from Bold House, Tuebrook but in 1861 he had described himself as a Cotton Merchant (before the cotton famine). In our 1871 census we see he was born in Prussia and a British subject; and Mary his wife, 36, was born in Ireland; they had 2 servants, one local the ether Irish. The 2 daughters recorded 10 years before would by this time have been 17 and 16 but were not at home. We have not been able to trace him further; but a Peter Joseph Scheuten of 87 Berkley St, Liverpool, gentleman, died in 1905 leaving £273 2s 9d, aged 77 years.

The 1867 Rates show Joseph Scheuten was owner and occupier of a house and garden R.V. £125, extent 4 acres 0 roods 20½ perches; next year the R.V. was £200.

For much of 1874 and 1875 the house was empty.

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