Wednesday 19 August 2015

bankruptcy George Harrison Coulson



THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 22, 1876. 857
In the County Court of Kent, holden at Canterbury, (n the Matter of Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition wi.th Creditors, instituted by George Harrison Coulson, of Boughton-urider-the-Blean, in the county of Kent, Miller. NOTICE is hereby given, that a First General Meeting
of the creditors of the above-named person has been summoned to be held at the Lower Music Hall, St. Margaret's-street, in the city of Canterbury, on the 4th day of March, 1876, at half-past twelve o'ctock in the afternoon precisely.—Dated this 16th day of February, 1876. SANKEY, SON, and FLINT, 1, Castle-street, Canterbury, Solicitors for the said Debtor.
This happens only 3 years after the death of George Harrison Coulson Senior.

Here is a bit of background on the County Court, etc.
I am still trying to find out where in the milling year February sits – I know the maize/corn is planted in September and harvested the following August, so cleaning/conditioning/gritting and bagging would be up to about November. From then on, the only income would be from selling, I think, with mill hands to be paid and the mill to be kept in working order – I now know that 'Fan tail blown off in gale, sold for demolition' at the beginning of the 'Tragedy' piece means that the bit on the top of the mill that kept the windmill sails facing into the wind, and so turning to mill the crop, had gone and if the miller could not afford to replace it, the mill was fit for only one thing: demolition, and all his capital with it.

Grave stone G.H.Coulson 


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