Another warehouse to let

TO be LET, and may be entered upon immediately, a large WHARF and convenient CORN WAREHOUSE, capable of containing four Thousand Quarters of Grain to unload in the Day, and the Canal running under the Warehouse, situated in Dartmouth Street, in the Parish of Aston.

A Weighing Machine will be put down to accommodate a Tenant.

Likewise a fifteen Quarter Malthouse, with every Convenience, adjoining the Canal.

To treat for the above apply to Stephen Wallis, Ashted Row.

(Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 27th August 1821)

Warehouse to let

TO be LET, and may be entered upon immediately, a convenient Corn Warehouse, situated in Dartmouth Street, Ashted, lately occupied by Mr. William Furnival, with large Wharf, if required. A Weighing Machine will be put down to accommodate a Tenant.

For Particulars apply to Mr. Stephen Wallis, Ashted, Birmingham.

(Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 1st January 1821)

Marriage of Mary Ann Wallis, 1826

MARRIAGES.

Lately, at Aston, Mr. Francis Hudson, of Bartholomew-square, to Miss M. A. Wallis, second daughter of Mr. Stephen Wallis, of that parish.

(Birmingham Chronicle, 2nd February 1826)

Lost dog

LOST on Tuesday last, a yellow and white POINTER BITCH; she had a Collar round her Neck, with no Name on it, and answers to the Name of FAN; – Whoever will give Information where she may be found to S. Wallis, Gosta Green, Birmingham, shall be well rewarded; and whoever detains her after this Notice, will be prosecuted.

(Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 20th October 1800)

Death of Mary (Osborne) Wallis

DIED. – On the 23d ult. aged 62, Mary, wife of Mr. Stephen Wallis, of Erdington Slade.

(Birmingham Gazette, 5th March 1832)

Dispute with the water works

WALLIS v. THE COMPANY OF PROPRIETORS OF THE BIRMINGHAM WATER WORKS. – The Appellant in this cause is Mr. Stephen Wallis who resides near Salford Bridge, about three miles north of Birmingham. The Respondents, the Company we have designated above. A special Jury having been impanneled to try this cause, early in the Sessions, they went down to take a view of the premises, and the trial was brought on before Sir Eardley on Thursday morning. The dispute between the parties originated in the following circumstances. Mr. Wallis is the proprietor of some land by the side of the river, near Salford Bridge, which the Company wished to purchase to erect works for the purpose of supplying the town of Birmingham with water. As the parties could not agree about the price of the ground, they availed themselves of a clause in the act of 7th George the 4th, and brought the case up to the Sessions, by way of appeal, for a Jury to fix the sum which the Appellant should have as a compensation for his land. The time of the Court was occupied a considerable time in objections and replication of the respective Counsel, when the Court strongly recommended a reference. This was finally agreed to, and Henry Jacob, William Jellicoe, and Richard Fowler, jun. were appointed Referees, to say what compensation should be given to Mr. Wallis, by the Company, for his land. A verdict was then taken for the Appellant, of £12,000, subject to the award of the Arbitrators.

(Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser, 16th January 1830)

Dispute with the Birmingham Water Works Company

WARWICKSHIRE EASTER SESSIONS.

The Court was opened at ten o’clock on Tuesday (yesterday) morning, by Sir J. E. E. Wilmot, Bart. chairman, Henry Hugh Holbech, Esq. and W. Stanton, Esq. The usual proclamation, &c. having been read, a Grand Jury was sworn, and after the chairman had shortly addressed them, they proceeded to examine the bills.

The settlement cases were disposed of as follows:-

[…]

Birmingham Water Works Company v. Stephen Wallis. – Ordered that the verdict be reduced from £12,000 to £7746 5s. 6d. pursuant to the architect’s award.

(Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 26th April 1830)

Stolen horses

TEN POUNDS REWARD.

STOLEN or STRAYED from a piece of land near to Aston Church, two Black COLTS rising two years old, two Brown sucking Colts, and one Grey ditto, and one handsome Roan Pony about 11 hands high. Whoever has found the same, and will take them to Mr. Stephen Wallis, Erdington Slade, near Birmingham, will be rewarded for their trouble; and if stolen, the above Reward will be given on conviction.

(Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 19th December 1831)

Failing to pay a toll

At a petty sessions held at Sutton [Coldfield], on the 15th inst., Stephen Wallis, sen., late of Erdington Slade, was convicted in a penalty of forty shillings and costs, for passing through a rail, set up by authority of an act of Parliament, by the side of the turnpike road, called the “Birmingham and Watford Gap, without paying the toll. – Correspondent.

(Birmingham Journal, 22nd June 1839)