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I'm posting in case someone in the future wonders where Shuttle Hall because I have narrowed down the search to one block of buildings which are no longer in existence. I found the will of Alexander Mitchell who was living at Shuttle Hall in 1841. He leaves property in trust for his wife & children and describes it as follows:
"that lot of ground acquired by me
from the managers of the funds mortified for behoof of the
poor of Forfar by Disposition dated the First day of December
Eighteen hundred and fifteen marked Number four on the
plan referred to in the said Disposition lying at the
east end of the town of Forfar, part of the lands belonging
to the mortified funds of the poor of Forfar consisting of
seven falls and thirty ells equal to ......
..... imperial measure and measuring forty feet in
front from north to south, which piece of ground extends oblique-
ly from east to west and is ascertained by march stones
fixed at the sight of the said manager and one bounded
by the Turnpike road leading from Forfar to Arbroath
on the east, the Feu acquired by William Thom residing
at Auchterforfar on the north,that which belonged to the late
John Dunbar in the west, and by Lot number five on said plan
on the south part"
On the 1841 census William Thom aged 55, a hand loom weaver is head of the household fourth from East Port Street and immediately before my Mitchell family.
I have attached an image of that area of Forfar taken from John Woods Town Plan of 1822. I believe that Shuttle Hall must have been the row of buildings opposite East Town end Toll, running towards East Port Street.
I've also attached an image from the will (dated 1st Feb 1840, registered 18th March 1850)
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.