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This linen and woollen draper, haberdasher, hosier etc. of Smithford Street was named an executor of Thomas Moy senior in 1839-47 (see PA101/7/333: PA2770/32/3.I). See PA101/7/333-339 passim. Bayley's School patronised him, 1839-40 (see PA180/102/29-30). In 1842 he was named as an executor of William Royle - see PA436/16/1. On the city council, 1836-45. Rotherham had Burges and Palmer Lane property, 1820-25 - see PA499/13. A trustee of William Howard's will (1843-54 - PA55/27/2: PA704/1/14.II). He was interested in property in Whitefriars' Street from 1842 until he died in 1860 - see CCA/2/3/399/25: PA55/53/3. A mortgagee for the Stivichall House estate from 1853 - see PA56/36/4.VII. Mortgage-assignee for William Royle's Hillfields land, 1841-44 (PA56/64/4,5). As an executor of Mary Watts from 1830 and Thomas Smith of Berkswell, Warwickshire from 1831, see PA491/34/1,2,7,14.IX,XXIII (will),15,16. As a tax collector, see PA2398/6/2/52/3 (1822). CCA/2/3/167/46 suggests that Rotherham's Smithford Street property almost abutted on Market Street. Rotherham was in 1844 trustee for the glazier John Sedgeley (q.v.)'s purchase of a Smithford Street messuage with which he remained involved as Sedgeley's executor and when appointed a trustee of the late Thomas Coke's will in 1852, subsequently obtaining the property, which he demolished and redeveloped - see CCA/2/3/221/24-32 passim. A Christ Church churchwarden, 1856 (CCA/2/3/135/35.XXXIV). Involved in a Chancery suit with Ann Rotherham, 1856-60 - see CCA/2/3/595/25,26: PA2770/26/22,28. Mortgagee for the aforesaid William Howard's daughter's Far Gosford Street property from 1858 (see PA2830/1/4.I-IV). Rotherham in 1856 became trustee of a settlement made by Joseph Butterworth (q.v.) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Royle) - see CCA/2/3/148/16. As an executor of Thomas Moy junior and mortgagee of New Buildings and Priory Court houses, 1847ff, see PA101/7/339: CCA/2/3/242/12,17.VII. A mortgagee of Harnall land, 1854 (see PA704/1/14.III). Involved in Town Court litigation, 1822-31 (see BA/E/K/110/545,546,680,681,711,748,787). As trustee for John Royle senior's daughters' interest in the future 111 & 111a, Gosford Street and 26 & 27, Bayley Lane, 1856, see CCA/2/3/497/21,28,38,55.
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