Alderman Joseph Elliot JP [1049]

  General Notes:

An Alderman and Mayor of Exeter in 1757.
Some notes from research done by Charles Gillett;
Seems likely that the references attached below are linked to 'our` Alderman Joseph Elliot - father of Mary (nee Elliot) Walkey .
No dates are currently listed on Gillett family website for Joseph or daughter Mary, but her husband Dr Benjamin Wakley was 1746-1865 which would fit in well with below details suggesting father Joseph was born around 1719 - 1803..
Can remember some connection of the Gilletts (via the Walkeys?) to the Elliot Family of St German, Cornwall -being mentioned in a letter from Henry Elliot Clarke ( Something about Eric Gillett having 2 chairs with the Elliot Elephant on them - but son Tony G still not sure this is correct ! ) but Eric did once briefly mentioned some connection to me . Think Rosemary(Mountjoy) & I looked into this ages ago but without any clear results .
These( St German) Elliots of Cornwall were originally from Devon & if there is a distant connection, it's very likely to be via Joseph & daughter Mary ?
Rosemary(Mountjoy) - Cannot remember if we did find out any more on this potential branch of the Family, but hopefully the below reports add something ? Notice that this Joseph Elliot was Major of Exeter in 1757 -links in well with ( son in law?)Dr Benjamin Wakley later on becoming Sheriff of Exeter in 1798 .

Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Exeter and the City and County of the City of Exeter(During the reign of George II)
1755 Lewis Portbury - his second term of office.
1756 William Trosse
1757 *Joseph Elliot
1758 Richard Denshan
1759 Richard Jackson

<http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/exetersmayors.php>


Some Selected Reports from the Salisbury & Winchester Journal

LONDON GAZETTE…1803
LONDON,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7.
DIED.] The Hon. Henry Fitzgerald, son of Lord Lecale, and nephew of the Duke of Leinster, and a midshipman on board the Phoebe frigate: he was killed on the night of the 14th of July, in gallantly boarding a French privateer, in the harbour of Civita Vecchia.- Lieut. G.E. Saltar, of the Phoebe; killed in the boats in the same attack.- On Thursday se'nnight, at Horndean, Lieutenant-Colonel Monro, of the Royal Marines, aged 84 years.- On Friday se'nnight, John Bell, Esq. Collector of the Customs at Great Yarmouth.- On Tuesday, at his seat at Mistley, in Essex, Everard Fawkener, Esq. one of the Commissioners of Stamps: he went to bed in apparent good health the preceding evening, and in the morning was found dead.- A few days since, in the neighbourhood of London, John Staples, Esq. many years Clerk of the Peace: of the county of Somerset.- In Bristol, in the 89th year of his age, Dr Plomer, many years an eminent physician.- On Wednesday, *Joseph Elliot, Esq. senior Alderman of Exeter, aged 84 years.

<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/NewS&WJ10Oct1803.html>


The Fulling Mill - 1673
In 1673, Benjamin Oliver of Exeter, and Robin Ridler of St Thomas, signed a 99 year agreement to allow the construction of a fulling mill, by Anthony Mapowder, Joseph Pince and John Ridler, on a plot of land 36ft by 10ft, to the east of the leat. The land was on the leat, in Little Meadow, at the bottom of Exwick Hill, and close to Exwick Manor House. Three years later, Oliver extended the lease to 99 years, to Thomas Heath, Joseph Pince and John Ridler for the existing fulling mill, and a new grist mill also to the east of the leat. Oliver held the lease of Exwick Manor, part of which belonged to the Gould family of Downes.

The next generation of merchants to work the mill included Richard Mapowder, a clothier and several others. In 1720, they appear to have given up the lease, to the land owner, William Gould of Downes, for the sum of £100.

Forty five years later, in 1765, a lease was signed for what had become known as the Lower Mill, on the same site, from John Tuckfield to Alderman Joseph Elliot for a shamoy (chamois leather) mill and millhouse, wheel, two stocks and a mill meadow of 2½ acres. Tuckfield, of Little Fulford, married Frances Gould, the second daughter of William Gould of Downes, and hence her estates in St Thomas and most of Exwick, including the mills, passed to Tuckfield on marriage. The elder sister, Elizabeth Gould, Tucker's sister in law, married James Buller – when Tuckfield and Francis died, without issue, his estates came into the possession of the Buller family.

Another lease, the same year for the adjacent mill, was also from Tuckfield, this time to John Baring of Mount Radford. The lease to Baring assigns two fulling mills and a mill house consisting of two wheels and the four stocks of Richard Mapowder, a clothier, and Thomas Jeffery, a merchant, who ran what was commonly known as Mapowder's and Jeffery's wheels. The lease goes on to mention that this mill was on the site of another fulling mill, "now destroyed called Pinto's wheel...".

John and Charles Baring's wool business was not very well documented in the second half of the 18th Century; Charles was ostensibly in charge of the Exeter end of the Baring's business interests, but he proved to be a poor businessman, during an era when the woollen trade was proving to be very volatile; however, it is likely that Baring's mill was the same same one that Antony Gibbs later leased for a time from James Buller in 1785, while building his woollen factory 'empire'. In 1805, the Sherbourne Mercury carried a lease for sale for the four fulling or shamoy mills, still leased by Baring and Co.



The naming of the various mills in Exwick has caused much confusion with historians, but some careful teasing out of the evidence unearths the Exwick Lower Mill's existence as a fulling, paper and corn mill before it became the County Steam Laundry. The mill was situated opposite Exwick Hill, on the east side of St Andrews Road.
The Fulling Mill - 1765 and before
The earliest document in the Devon Record Office that mentions this mill, is a lease for the Lower Mill, dated 1765, from John Tuckfield to *Alderman Joseph Elliot for a shamoy (chamois leather) mill and millhouse, wheel, two stocks and a mill meadow of 2 ½ acres.
<http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_commercial/exwickpapermill.php>

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alderman of Exeter:

Joseph married.