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The river Glas running N-S is the leftmost water course
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Old Deed Bra #1
dated 2 Jun 1712;Paul Gellin(Knockatroddan, Braddan) + wife Ellinr (+ also father Patrick Gellen agrees) sell for £20 to Wm Murrey(merchant ,Douglas) + Phill Moore(merchant, Douglas) a parcel of land to erect a tuck miln (Gelling 25%, Murrey 50% + Moore 25% shares) - land from trench of Claddagh meadow up the Mollin a Corran as far as my lands entend the hill or mere betwixt Thos Lewn and me being boundary on northside, hedge or fence on same side of river to be boundary on south;Witt Adam Christian, W Aldridge x
SSS May 1762 62
dated 17 May 1766;Philip Moore(merchant,Douglas) + wife Eunice sell for £30 (Brit) to Wm Cottier(Braddan) the fourth part of knock-y-trodden tuck mill in Kk Braddan; witt Thos Corkill,William Kewley;
SSS May 1773 73
dated 15 May 1772;Ann Moore(wdow, Ballamoore, Jurby) sells for £30(British) to William Cottier(Braddan) my 1/4th part of a tuck mill + associated land known as KnockTroddan Tuck Miln ; Witt Geo Oates, Robt Calvin
SSS Oct 1774 57
dated 26 Oct 1772;Philip Quayle(Onchan) + wife Isabell als Kewley sell for £65 3s(British) to William Cottier(Braddan) our right to half Knock-e-troddan tuck miln; Witt William Looney, John Stowell [see SSS May 1762 62 + SSS May 1773 73]
Thus by October 1772 Wm Cottier owned the whole mill, associated land and any water rights - however flax was a diminishing crop on the Island, unable to compete with the much larger industry in Northern Ireland.
SSS May 1806 30
dated 6 Aug 1803;John Cottier(Peel) + wife Elizabeth sell for £37 6s (Brit) to John Oates(Onchan) half of a flax mill known as Cottier's Flax mill + water courses etc in Braddan; Witt Ann Cottier, Thomas Carran
SSS May 1827 53
dated 9 Dec 1824; John Otes sells fore £24 to Jno Moore + Edwd Jas Moore the moiety of flax mill on riverside below Ballacreetch known as Cottier's mill purchased from John Cottier deed dated 6 Aug 1803
SSS May 1827 52
dated 15 Dec 1824;Jno Moore + Edwd Jas Moore sell for £24 to Mark Wilks esq the moiety of flax mill on riverside below Ballacreetch known as Cottier's mill purchased from John Oates by deed dated 9 Dec 1824[SSS May 1827 53]
So far I have not found any sale of the other half share
It is not clear why Mark Wilks, who had purchased Ballafletcher which he renamed Kirby, purchased this property - possibly to have some control over the water rights, as he was having some drainage problems following the construction of a dam [weir] for Ballaughton mill as earlier in 1824 he reached an agreement with neighbour
SSS May 1827 60
dated 18 Feb 1824;recites that meadow on east side of river opp Col Wilk's house at Kirby is swampy in consequence of insufficient fall to river and it being dammed up immediately below for the Ballalaughton Mill - no possibility of draining except for a barrel drain struck under the Port-e-chee mill race continued across the meadow belonging to Thomas Harrison - Harrison has agreed subject that Wilks shall bear all costs and during July and that top of drain be no nearer that 18in to surface and be performed under direction of Wm Quiggin;Witt William Quiggin, William Goldsmith
Matthias Curghy giving evidence about the mill dam constructed to feed Tromode Mill in 1857 states
In the year 1817 I was coroner of Middle Sheading. I know the property on which is the mill and mill-dam in the occupation of the Defendant. I sold a tuck-mill higher up, but close to the land on which the present mill-dam now stands in the occupation of Defendant. The tuck-mill was on what is now Castle-ward. There was not any dam then on the Defendant's premises, or any vestige of a dam. There was some bleaching-ground then at Tromode, but whether there was a mill or not I cannot tell. There was no mill-dam to the tuck-mill that I sold, but the mill-race was a little wider just above the mill where it could be stopped, but nothing to be compared to the present mill-dam in size. I do not know whether the said tuck-mill is standing now or not. That part of the mill-race above the tuck-mill which I have described as a little wider could contain very little water.
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