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From: "Marg Cambridge" <>
Subject: [WRY] Gas lighting in Wakefield in 1823
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:30:43 +0100

I hope there are surnames of interest to someone on the list. Sorry it's
long.
Taken from the CD book "The History of Wakefield" by Thomas Taylor written
1886.

By “an Act for lighting with Gas the Town and neighbourhood of Wakefield,”
which received the Royal Assent on the 3rd April 1822, William Barff, Dennis
Barker, Thomas Barras, Thomas Bolton, William Burell, John Carr of Carr
Lodge, Jeremy Clapham, James Cowell, Benjamin Dixon, William Dyer, Benjamin
Fawcett, Jose Luis Fernandes, Thomas Foljambe, James Goldthorp, George
Green, John Hardcastle, Robert Hodgson of Haigh Hall, John Jackson,
woolstapler, William Lentham, Samuel Lee, Henry Lumb, Joseph Mettewman,
Francis Maude, Barrister-at-Law, John Maude of Hoor House, John Melton, John
Ladweze Newmarch, Clerk, Richard Nichols, Thomas Pitt, Thomas Lofthouse
Potter, Luke Race, Thomas Rishworth the elder, Thomas Rishworth the younger,
James Rishworth, Richard Rishworth, John Robson, Thomas Rogers, Clerk,
Joseph Ross, Richard Scholes, John Scholey, Joseph Scott the elder,
Elizabeth Scott, Robert Scott, Joseph Scott the younger of London, Samuel
Sharp, Clerk, Isaac Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Edward Sidebottom, Joseph Lawson
Sisson, Clerk, Francis Smalpage, Joshua Smithson, Squire Statter, John
Stead, Margaret Sykes, James Teale, Frances Teale, Ellen Teale, George
Teale, John Teale, Edward Tew, John Tootal the younger, William Tunnacliffe,
Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth of Woolley Park, George Westerman, Thomas White,
William White, George Wilby and others were incorporated by the name of “The
Wakefield Gas Light Company,” for the purpose of making inflammable air,
carbureeted hydrogen, coal gas, coke, oil, tar, pitch, asphaltum, ammoniscal
liquor and essential oil, and for lighting with gas the said Town and
neighbourhood, extending not more than 3000 yards from the Market Cross
there; with power to purchase any hereditaments (not exceeding three acres
in the whole) and to re-sell any lands not wanted. The Company were directed
to supply the public lamps with gas of such quality as should at all times
afford a cheaper and better light than could be obtained from oil lamps; and
were made liable to penalties and indictment for a public or private
nuisance. The Company had entered into a Contract for the purchase of the
land from William Scott, but, in consequence of the situation being then
considered objectionable on account of its proximity to the House of
Correction, they erected their Works in Wrengate, and commenced to light the
town with Gas in January 1823.

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