Thursday 15th November 1787 Derby Mercury (page 3)

TOTLEY

To be Sold by Auction (Together or in 6 lots)

At the House of Mr. Samuel Peech, the Angel Inn Sheffield on Tuesday the 11th Day of December 1787 subject to such Conditions as will be then and there produced.

A Desirable Freehold Estate situate at Totley in the Parish of Dronfield and County of Derby now in the Possession of Mr. Samuel Frith as Tenant at Will who will show the Premises.

LOT THE FIRST

Homestead, large barn and Outbuildings with little Croft 0a. 2r. 18p.

Croft below the Homestead 1a. 1r. 23p.

LOT THE SECOND

The Way Furlong 3a. 3r. 18p.

LOT THE THIRD

Doles in the Holmes 0a. 3r. 24p.

FOURTH

Far Field 7a. 1r. 0p.

FIFTH

Bareland 1a. 3r. 37p.

SIXTH

Hatchley 3a. 0r. 21p.

Nether Field 3a. 0r. 30p.

TOTAL 22a. 1r. 11p.

The above premises have common right on all the commons and wastes in the liberty of Totley which are estimated to be at least three times as extensive as the inclosed lands.

N.B. A proper Deposit will be expected from each Purchaser.



Thursday 31st December 1789 Derby Mercury (page 4)

At a public House at Totley Moor Side a few miles from Sheffield the same day two men had agreed to shoot at a mark for a wager, one of the persons Geo. Green a young man of Whitley Wood in that neighbourhood had charged one and was priming the other gun when the 1st which he had reared against a table fell down went off and lodged its contents in the unfortunate youth who after exclaiming "Lord Have Mercy On Me " expired immediately.