Richard Henry Appleton
Flour Miller
Born 31 May 1819 in Yarm, North Yorkshire, son of Richard Appleton, a corn and provisions merchant.[1]
The elder Richard Appleton erected a windmill at Yarm (date not known) 12 stories high.[2]
1823 Directory entry - Richard Appleton, corn factor, corn miller, grocer, linen draper, seedsman and sub-distributor of stamps in Yarm.[3]
1827 added a steam engine to the mill.[4]
1835 Richard joined in business by his son Richard Henry Appleton.[5]
1840 Directory entry - Richard Appleton, corn merchant, and corn miller in Yarm.[6]
1848 The wind/steam mill at Yarm was destroyed by a fierce fire.[7]
1851 Census - Richard Appleton, master miller employing 6 men. R H Appleton, son, assistant. Yarm.
1852 Richard Appleton made assignment of all his assets and liablities, suggesting that he was insolvent.[8]
It is said[9] that R H Appleton bought a wind/steam mill on the west side of Stockton in 1852, that of Thomas Gibson, but there is no such listing in the 1856 directory, only a wind and steam mill in Dovecot Street, owned by the executors of William Gibson, which is probably the same. The same source says that finding this mill old fashioned, he built the Clarence Mill to the north of Stockton, on the Clarence Railway, which opened in 1865, but this date is incorrect (below). Another source says that the mill opened in 1856, so possibly 1865 was a typo.
1855 W H Appleton advertising for a journeyman miller at Stockton Wind and Steam Mill.[10]
1858 Directory entry - Richard Henry Appleton, corn merchant and miller, Norton Road, Stockton.[11] Also from adverts, of R H Appleton of Clarence Flour Mill in 1858.
1860 "Messrs Appleton have lately erected a powerful corn mill called Clarence Mill, on the Clarence Railway, which works 9 pairs of stones, and is capable of converting 550 quarters of wheat weekly."[12]
1861 Census - Richard Appleton in Stockton-on-Tees, miller employing 10 men. Next door residence, Richard H Appleton, miller and corn merchant.
1865 Richard Appleton (the father) died on 25 Oct 1865 at Stockton. Miller and Corn Merchant.
1869 Clarence Mill destroyed by a devastating fire which started on 12 Sep.[13] Only a few weeks later, Appleton sought tenders for and permission for a new mill on the Norton Road site, the plans being approved by the Board of Health.[14] The indications are that he decided not to proceed with this as in April the following year permission was granted to build a new mill on the Quay on the Yorkshire side of the river then called South Stockton, later Thornaby on Tees.[15] In the interim, he took a short term tenenacy of a steam mill in Hartlepool belonging to Mr Lisle.[16]
1871 The new mill, called the Cleveland Mill, was completed in late 1871 or early 1872
1883 Richard Henry Appleton elected as the fourth president of the National Association of British and Irish Millers.[17]
1890 Directory entry - R H Appleton, corn merchant and miller, Corn Exchange, High Street, Stockton, Cleveland steam flour mills, Chapel Street, South Stockton; and North Shore Mills, Mill Street East, Stockton.[18]
1890 Business merged with others to become Appleton, French and Scrafton, with Richard Henry Appleton as chairman.[19] The transaction included R. H. Appleton's freehold Cleveland Steam Flour Mills, South Stockton-on-Tees, and his leasehold North Shore Mills, Stockton-on-Tees.
1891 Mayor of Stockton-on-Tees
1898 Richard Henry Appleton died 15 Nov 1898, of Woodside Hall, Preston-on-Tees.[20]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ North Star (Darlington) - 16 Nov 1898 and Yarm baptism register
- ↑ The Miller - 2 Jul 1883
- ↑ Baines' Directory - North and East Yorkshire 1823
- ↑ The Miller - 2 Jul 1883
- ↑ The Miller - 2 Jul 1883
- ↑ White's Directory - North and East Yorkshire 1840
- ↑ Yorkshire Gazette - 13 May 1848
- ↑ London Gazette - 15 Oct 1852
- ↑ The Miller - 2 Jul 1883
- ↑ Newcastle Courant - 20 Apr 1855
- ↑ Kelly's Directory, Durham and Northumberland
- ↑ Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser - 13 Jul 1860
- ↑ Northern Weekly Gazette - 17 Sep 1869
- ↑ Northern Weekly Gazette - 8 Oct 1869
- ↑ Northern Weekly Gazette - 15 Apr 1870
- ↑ Darlington and Richmond Herald - 18 Jun 1870
- ↑ The Miller - 2 Jul 1883
- ↑ Kelly's Directoru opf Durham 1890
- ↑ Prospectus - Manchester Courier - 26 Feb 1890
- ↑ North Star (Darlington) - 16 Nov 1898