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From 1868 O/S Plan X.15 - SC 365796 The leat feeding the mill, top centre, is taken from the Glass just downstream of where the tail race of Baldwin Mill exits - its tail race joins the Glass, running N-S, just above the sluice feeding the Mwyllin-y-Chorrin |
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Wm Cubbon in his lengthy study of Manx-made paper has
From the Chancery Book of 1829 we learn that in November, 1809, William Banks, a Douglas merchant, Matthias Corran, John Kane and John Gelling entered into a co-partnership agreement 'to erect a mill and premises for the manufacture of paper upon the estate of Ballaoates in the parish of Braddan, and therein to carry on the paper-making business for and during the term of twenty-one years commencing from the 12th day of November, 1809.'
The mill was erected on the premises then called Corran's Flax Mill, situated on John Gelling's land, he being the proprietor of one fourth of the mill. A yearly rent of ten guineas was paid to the proprietors of the Flax Mill by the members of the co-partnership. The title of the firm was 'The Isle of Man Paper Mill Company.' They solicited the custom of the insular shop-keepers in the Manks Advertiser of July 8th, 1809, and advertised 'woollen grey, tea-paper, bag cap, &c.'
Corran's Flax Mill would appear to be that described in SSS May 1790 83
dated 2 Jan 1789;Matthias Corran(Ballameanagh, Braddan) + wife Jane als Qualtrough sell for £1 19s from John Oates(miller), John Oates(Baloates), John Gellin(Baloates) + Robt Curghy 3/4 of a parcel of Baloates in a place called the Moaney near the Claddagh as already marked out and intended to erect a flax mill or machine being 40yds square plus a parcel convenient to make a race, dam-head + sluice - sale equally to all 4; Witt Wm Killey, Wm Garrett x
Registered deed Apr 1859 #90
dated 13 Jan 1827;Matthias Corran(Ballameneagh,Braddan) sells for £20 (to be paid to my executors 12mnth after my death) to daughter Eliza Christian als Corran + husband William Cain to a Paper and Flax Mill [Woodside] in parish of Braddan situate on part of Ballaoats now in occupation of sd Wm Cain as tenant - possession after decease of Matthias; Witt John Quark, Geo W Dumbell
Registered deed Apr 1885 #68 covers the transfer to Charles Litts and the change of use to a manure manufactory and animal waste rendering which explains the change of name and subsequent notorietry
dated 3 Jan 1885;Henry Roberts(Stannington, Yorkshire) + wife Ann and John Lewin Gawne(Douglas) sells for £250 Charles Litt(Douglas) the mill, dwelling house,mill race + machinery at Ballaoates in Braddan known as the Woodside paper mill. Witt William Taylor, William J Cain
T.A. Bawden The Manx Paper-Making Industry Proc IoMNH&ASoc vol 7 #3 pp449 et seq 1976
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