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Hutchinson, Robert

Butcher & Shipowner
Tower Street West Hartlepool
United Kingdom
0/0/1821
28/2/1875

Robert Hutchinson was born in 1821 at Eldon, Durham. He married Susanna Alderson in September 1845 at Darlington.  In 1851 the couple were living at Middlesbrough with Robert listed as a butcher employing one apprentice. By 1861 the couple had moved to 16 Lynn Street, West Hartlepool and by 1871 they were living at Tower Street, West Hartlepool. It appears that the couple did not have any children.

Robert died aged 54 on 28th February 1875 at West Hartlepool leaving effects of under £3,000.

Ships Robert owned or had shares in from approximate dates were: 1851 Glory; 1853 Ivanhoe; 1855 Atlantic; 1857 Newport; 1864 Earl Bathurst; 1864 Argo; 1864 Ravensworth; 1867 Fanny; 1867 Penelope; 1867 Solon; 1867 Zior; 1868 Astley; 1870 Markwell; 1871 Abbotts Reading; 1873 Catherine Roberts; 1873 Ipswich; 1874 Williams; 1874 Malvina.

Other shareholders were: John Dennis; Thomas Hogarth; Joseph Peacock; Joseph Pearson; Nesswell Lowther; Matthew Boyes; John Furness; William Young

Under his will land at Elwick was sold at auction. His ships and shares of ships were also auctioned.

Northern Echo – Thursday 12 August 1875:

SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION. Elwick, in the Parish of Hart, in the County of Durham - Valuable Freehold Farm for Sale.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by Messrs MERRYWEATHER AND SON (by order of the Trustees under the Will of the late Robert Hutchinson, deceased), at the Royal Hotel, West Hartlepool, on THURSDAY, August the 12th, 1875, at Two for Three o’Clock in the Afternoon precisely, in the following Lots, and subject to Conditions of Sale to be then read:-

Lot 1.- All that valuable FREEHOLD FARM and LANDS, situate in the township of Elwick, in the parish of Hart, comprising the Farmhouse, Outbuildings, Yard, Garden, and Promises, and the several Closes of excellent Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land held therewith, the whole containing together l02a. 8r. 4p., or thereabouts, and was late in the occupation of Robert Hutchinson, deceased. The Minerals will be sold with the Farm.

Lot 2.-All that FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, and the Garden adjoining thereto, situated at Elwick aforesaid, and now or late in the occupation of Mr Martin. Elwick is situated about three miles from the important town of West Hartlepool. The Farm lies in a ring fence, and is rendered very valuable from the fact of the land having been recently drained by the late owner at a considerable expense, and also from its close contiguity to the coal district, coal mines being worked within a short distance from it. Altogether, a very desirable investment is offered to the public. The Tenants will show the property, and further information may be had, and a Plan of the Estate seen, upon application to Dr. JAMES ATKINSON, JOHN FURNESS, Jun., the Trustees; to the AUCTIONEERS; or, to HIGSON SIMPSON, Solicitor, - West Hartlepool.

Northern Echo - Friday 17 September 1875:

‘SALE OF SHIPPING PROPERTY AT WEST HARTLEPOOL.-Yesterday afternoon, there was an unreserved sale of collier-ships, and shares of ships, the property of the late Mr Robert Hutchinson, shipowner, by Mr Richard Merryweather, auctioneer, at the offices of Messrs Lister, Baumann, and Co., West Hartlepool. The auctioneer reserved the right to start at an upset price fixed by the owner's trustees; and the results were as follows:-The Catherine Roberts, 250 tons register -upset price £250, sold for £340. Half of the brig Malvina, 186 tons register-started at £100, was purchased by the owner of the other half for £150. One quarter of the brig Astly, 205 tons register-first bid, £75- knocked down at £120. Half of the brigantine Argo, 124 tons register- first bid, £100 (by the owner of the other half), sold, after a spirited bidding, at £220. Half of the collier-brig Williams, 184 register tons-started at £100, there being no advance, was knocked down at that amount to the brother of the other owner, Mr T. Furness. Twenty-four sixty-fourths of the brig Solon, 165 tons register-first bid £75, knocked down at £125. The great feeling among the shipowners and ship- masters present at the sale was that the present is a favourable time for the purchase of wooden ships. The Plimsoll agitation has had the effect of withholding investors, and thus cheapening this class of property, although practical men and small capitalists, conversant with shipping affairs, experience no depreciation either in intrinsic or in productive value.’


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