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Brownhill Bridge Mll

Name:
Robert Winterbottom
 Relationship to Margaret Hall
Birth:
19 AUG 1740 Bridge House, Dobcross
Father:
John Winterbottom
Mother:
Alice Scholefield
Married:
Mary Halkyard 28 APR 1763
Children:
Mally Winterbottom
Born: 4 MAR 1764 Bridge House, Dobcross
Died: BEF 13 MAR 1828 New Inn, Saddleworth
Alice Winterbottom
Born: 11 JAN 1768 Nick House, Saddleworth
Died: 19 MAR 1844 Bridge House, Dobcross
John Winterbottom
Born: 26 APR 1770 Bridge House, Dobcross
Died: 6 JUL 1838 Bridge House, Dobcross
Married:
Ann Buckley 15 APR 1779
Children:
Sarah Winterbottom
Born: 1782
Ann Winterbottom
Born: 1784
Died: 10 MAR 1846 Salford, Lancashire
Elizabeth Winterbottom
Born: 1792
Died: 23 OCT 1870 Dobcross, Lancashire
Martha Winterbottom
Born: 1796
Died: 26 JUN 1848 Dobcross, Lancashire
Death:
BEF 19 JAN 1820 Bridge House, Dobcross aged 79
Burial:
19 JAN 1820
Remarks:
Clothier

1781 Built Brownhill Bridge Mill.

The Mill was one of the first to be built and was first used for teazing (opening up the wool) and then scribbling (a part of carding to open and mix the fibres). A 1780s scribbling mill would be driven by a water wheel. Each scribbler would require 15–45 horsepower (11–34 kW) to operate. The Mill continued to be used in the processing of wool until the mid C20 and was powered by the water-wheel until the 1920's.

'Below the village, at the bottom of Nicker
Brow, is Brownhill Bridge Mill, built in the 1770s
alongside the Diggle Brook, near its confluence
with the River Tame. It is the oldest surviving
example of these early mills in a form that has seen
no drastic changes. Externally, the oldest part of
the building resembles a typical weaver’s house,
with the usual rows of mullioned windows. It
housed a water wheel, with the mill pond behind.
It was never steam powered and never employed
more than a handful of workers. The old single
arch packhorse bridge is close to the mill'.
Saddleworth: https://www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/pdfs/manchestergeographies/Manchester_Geographies_10_Theakstone.pdf

1793. Proprietor of the Manor of Saddleworth.
1798. Inherited Bridge House.

Yeoman of Bridge House

Will proved 13 Jul 1820: https://archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=W%2fCW%2fSupra%2fC756%2f52&pos=3

Ref:
Information from Karen McGrath, Sep 2023

Historic England entry for Bownhill Bridge Mill: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309426

Carding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding

Dobcross trail: https://gmwalking.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Dobcross-Trail1.pdf

Inside the mill: https://twitter.com/he_northwest/status/933024718243975171

Source - birth of daughter:
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5JJ-9SD : 30 December 2014), Alice Winterbottom, 17 Jan 1768; citing SADDLEWORTH,YORK,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 558,358, 558,359.


Source - christening:
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5L4-CY9 : 30 December 2014), Robert Winterbottom, 03 Nov 1734; citing SAINT MARY,OLDHAM,LANCASHIRE,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0093574-0093576.
Inside Brownhill Bridge Mill


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