CHESHIRE. [KELLY's from Nantwich, 4 Fiouth-South-East from Over, and 5 Miles and Afterwards Was Vested in the Lovels
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434 CHURCH MINSHULL. CHESHIRE. [KELLY's from Nantwich, 4 fiouth-south-east from Over, and 5 miles and afterwards was vested in the Lovels. The mesne south-w~st from Middlewich, in the Eddisbury division manor was formerly possessed by a family who assumed the local name soon after the Norman accession, and from of the county1 hundred of ;Northwioh., union, county court district and petty sessional division of Nantwich, rural whom it passed through an heiress m the reign of Edward deanery of Middlewich and archdeaconry and diocese of Ill. to the Dutton family. After the death of Sir Thomas Chester. The Shropshire Union canal crosses the border Dutton, in the reign of Henry VII. without male issue, of the parish. The church pf St. Bartholomew, erected it passed to the representatives of Eleanor, his filth in 1702 on tfue site of an older s!Jructure, is a daughter, who married Richard de Cholmondeley; a pla.in edifice of brick and: stone, consisting of younger branch of the Minshulls continued the male line, apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, and and resided here until the demise of John Minshull, in the a western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 year r654, when his estate passed in marriage with bells, cast in 1717 ~ the piers of the arcades appear to be Elizabeth, his sole heiress, to Thomas Cholmondeley esq. the remains of the former church: in r861 the church was of Vale Royal, ancestor of the present Lord Delamere; 'COmpletely restored and re-seated at a cost of £Boo, and in he thus became possessed of the whole property, and died rBgr was further restored at an expense of nearly £s6o, in 1652, and the estate was afterwards sold to Thomas under the superintendence of Mr. Waiter M. Bowden, Brouke bart. of Norwn Priory. Ashb-rook Towers is now architect, of Chester : an organ, in memory of Captain the residence of Charles Frederick Coryndon Luxmoore Charles Luxmoore Brooke, of Ashbrook Hall, d. Jan. g, esq. who is lord of the manor and principal land r8go, was placed in the church in 1890 by his wife and owner; Henry Done esq. of Tarporley, also owns children: in the church is a mural monument to Jane, some land in this parish. Lea Green Ball, • for wife of Thomas Cholmondeley esq. of Vale Royal, d. 14 merly belonging to the Vernon and Crewe families, .April, r866, and there are also .several modern tablets: is a brick residence, the property of Henry Done esq. and in the churchyard, at the foot of the tower, is a dilapi now occupied as a farm house. Minshull Hall, an ancient dated tomb, on one side of which is a portion of a skeleton brick edifice, is also now a farmhouse. The township .carved in stone, but the inscription is now entirely gone : comprises 2,344 acres of land, chiefiv used for pasture, and • • this was the burial place of the old family of Wade, from 2S of water; rateable value, £3,932; the population in whom Wade's Green takes its name, and there is a strong 1901 was 31c. local tradition that the remains of the Right Hon. George Wade's Green is a hamlet. Wade, P.C., M.P. Field Marshal, and commander of the Post Office.-Mrs. Anne Brereton, sub-postmistress. Let King's troops during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, who te<rs arrive from ·Middlewich, per messenge.r, at 7·4S died 14 March, 1748, were interred here; but it is evident a.m. & a.re dispatche-d thereto at 6 p.m. Postal orden from the register of Westminster Abbey that he was are issued here, but not paid.. The nearest money order buried there March 21, 1748, near the ohoir gate, and in office is at Over, & nearest telegraph office is at Wor the abbey nave is an elaborate monument to him, executed leston, 3 miles distant by the distinguished sculptor, Louis F. Roubiliac: on the Endowed Sdhool (mixed), built in r86o & en1arged in exterior south-east wall of the chancel is a slab with 1896, at the expense of C. F. C. Luxmoore esq. of undated inscription to Thomas Minshull esq. of Eardswick, Ash brook Towers, for 130 children; average attendance, and Alice, his wife: there are sittings for 2so persons. The 85; Robert Kitchen, master; Mrs. Ada Kitchen, sewing parish registers commence in rs6r, and contain the mistress. In the year r614 the Rev. Ohristopher Min following remarkable instance of longevity: '' r649, F>hull left the interest of £2oo for the support of a Thomas Damme, of Leighton, buried 2oth of February, school, to which was added the interest of £so, by Mr. being of the age of seven score and fourteen." The living Wilbraham, of Dorfold Hall & £so by other dqnors, for is a vicarage, net yearly value £126, with glebe and resi the same purpose; this money produces £3 per cent. dence, in thr gift oo Charles F: C. Luxmoore esq. of Ash yearly as interest. In 1870 Henry Brooke esq. be hrook Tower-s, and held since r884 by the Rev . .Alder queathed the sum of £2oo to the vicar & churchwardens, Heffill, of St. Bees. Chawities : -'l'he poor have £30 the interest to be applied to the Church Minshull yearly, £ro fvom the bequeSits of Wade, Frogge and endowed school, & in the same will a further sum of £s others, which is d~s.trributed in ~1-als and c1othin~ at yearly for the maintenance of the school house & garden. Christmas, and £20 dBrived from the rent of two fields The school also receives £s yearly from a sum of £roo situate at Tetton, and distributed in money on St. belonging to the poor, & it is now endowed with about Thomas's day. Tth:is place was fmmerly in the parish £3o a year, arising out of the aboye bequests, in con of Acton, and attached to the barony of Wich .Milbank sideration of which .11mount the master teaches read (Nantwich), but on i<t;s division it fell t<J Phi1ip Bas-set, ing & writing free to ro boys & the like number of girfs Barnett Thomas Bebington Hy. farmer, Minshull hall Kitchen Robert, schoolmaster & as- Heffill Rev. Alder (vicar), Vicarage Birchall .Alfred, farmer, Wood green sistant overseer Hollinshead Thomas Birchall Geo. farmer, Oatlands farm Morris Jas. frmr. Willow Tree farm Luxmoore Charles Frederick Coryn- Brereton.Anne(Mrs.),shpkpr.Post office Newton Geo. farmer, \Vade's green don, Ashbrook Towers Charles worth Cha.rles, farmer, "'ade's Pace Mary Ann (Mrs.), frmr.Paradise • COMMERCIAL. Green hall Pace Richard, farmer, Lea green Allwood Wm. farmer, Tall Tree house Collins \Vm. cowkeeper, Lea green Pace Samuel, farmer .Astbury John Joseph, frmr.Village fm Davies Fredk. miller, Minshull mill Robinson Fredk. farmer, Lee Grn.hall Baker James, farmer, Lea green Egerton Brothers, wheelwrights Stockton Thomas, ta;lor Barnet.t William Henry, farmer,Manor Fisher Thos. Jesse, horse trainer & dlr Snmner James, farmer, Lea green farm, Lea green Hollinshead David, farmer, Bridge ho Tite George, Brooke's Arms P.H Barnett Saml. mill mangr. Ivy cott Jackson William, farmer, Oak lanes Yoxall Sarah (Miss), farmer, Paradise ' MINSHULL VERNON, see Leighton. MOBBERLEY "is an extensive township, parish and Lawrence Blakiston, lieut. 62nd Regiment, son of Major vill!l.ge, with a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee's Blakiston, of Mobberley New Hall, who fell at the assault railway, one mile north from the village, and is 3 miles on Sebastopol, 8 Sept. 18SS ; to the Rev. Henry Offiey east-north-east from Knutsford, 6 south from Altrincham Wright, of Mottram St. Andrew, d. 17 June, 1799, and and 4 west from Wilmslow, in the KnutsfOTd division of his wife J ane, d. March, 1779 ; and to the Rev. John the county, petty sessional division and hundred and union Holdsworth Mallory M.A. a former patron and rector of of Bucklow, county court district of Altrincham, rural this parish, d. 25 May, 1832, and his wife Julia, deanery of Bowdon, archdeaconry of Macclesfield and d. 29 June, 18s2; and a memorial window to diocese of Chester. The ancient church of St. Wilfrid, 1 Trafford Leigh Mallory R.N. d. 24 .Aug. 1867: the built in the 13th century, on the site of an old Saxon church affords 493 sittings. The register dates from the church, is an edifice of stone in the Early English and year IS78· The living is a rectory, net yearly value Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried £584, with 94 aores of glebe, in the gift of and held nave of 4 bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled since 1885 by the Rev. Herbert Leigh Mallory M . .A. of western tower, erected by Sir John Talbot in 1533, and Trinity College, Cambridge. There are Congregational containing a clock and 6 bells: the nave and chancel are chapels at Pepper street and Knolls green, and a Wes separated by a carved oak screen, made by Peter Alton, and leyan chapel in Faulkner lane. At tJhe ea.st side of the bearing an inscription and the date 1500: the chancel, parish, about .one and a half mile-s £rom the church, is restored and furnished with handsome oak stalls by the !l Quakers' burial ground, with gravestones of the 17th family of the present rector in r889-go, retains piscina century. Coppock's oha.rity of £ro yearly is for bread; and sedilia in excellent preservation: the stained east Stubbs' and Barley's gifts, togethBr £2 zs. are distributed window is a memorial to the Rev.