Bucknall-Cum-Bagnall Parish Register, 1762-1812
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1920. BUCKNALL-CUM-BAGNALL. 1762- 1812. Staffordshire Staffovbsbive flbansb IReoisters Society E d it o r a n d H o n . S e c r e t a r y : PERCY W. L. ADAMS, F.S.A., SampleWoore Manor,County near Crewe. D e a n e r y o f S t o k e -o n -T r e n t . BuchnaU=cum*=BaonaU Studies parish IReoister. P r iv a t e l y v r in t e d for t h e Staffordshire P a r is h R e c is t e r s So c i e t y . A ll Communications respecting the printing and transcription of Registers and the issue o f the parts should be addressed to the Editor. Attention is especially directed to Notices on inside of Cover. StaffordshireJ5ncl?naII*cuin»JSagnall. Bucknall-cum-Bagnall was carved out of the large parish of Stoke-on- Trent in 1807, and consists of the hamlets of Bucknall, Bottcslow, Bagnall, and Bucknall Eaves, in the North-Western division of the county, the North Pirehill hundred, the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent, and the diocese of Lichfield. The village of Bucknall has a station on the Stoke and Leek branch of the North Staffordshire railway. Bucknall is an ancient Chapelry. One of the earliest references to it so far discovered is in the Will of Thomas Adams, of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, proved at Lich field 23rd November, 1536, who left “ i2d. to Buckenhall Chapel. ” 1 In 1563 Bucknall is described as a Chapel of ease with Cure. A list of the Curates and Rectors is as follows :— B u c k n a l l . B a c n a l l . oc. 1593. A Curate. oc. 1593. A Curate. oc. 1604-20. Thomas Shaw. oc. 1604. Thomas Goodwin. oc. 1651-2 Richard Orme. oc. 1620. John Tomson. oc. 1651-2. Roger Wetton. oc. 1666. Thomas Cook. I ncu m bents of B u c k n a l l cum B a g n a l l . 1693. John Allen. Patrons. 1714. Samuel Lea. 1738. William Adey. 1755. died 1777.Sample Hugh Boulton.County Rector of Stoke. 1777. died 1795. Benjamin Woolfe. „ ,, R ectors o f B u c k n a l l (with B a g n all Cu r a c y ). 1795. resigned 1818. John Woolfe. Rector of Stoke. 1818. died 1851. Edward Powis. Rector and Patron. 1851. resigned 1852. Alfred Francis Boucher. Misses Powys. 1852. resigned 1876. Charles Harbord Heath. ,, „ 1876. resigned 1878. Walter Humphreys. C. Lamb. 1878. died 1891. Samuel Hubert Owen. Rector and Patron. 1892. George Thomas Birch. Mrs. Alfred Owen. According to Walter Chetwynd,3 Buckenhall “ 20 Conq. was in the King’s “ hands, Chetell held it before, and not long after Ormus, and, by decent “ from him, a part of it came to Hawisia, ye wife of Hen. de Verdon, who were “ both benefactors to the Monks of Hilton [Hulton Abbey]— he givingStudies them “ certain lands here, and she giving liberty to make a pool-dam upon her lands “ in Buckenhall lying near to the Abbey.” Ward states that Ubbcley Hall in the township of Bucknall was formerly owned by Bertram de Verdon temp. Henry ii. (the founder of Croxden Abbey) and that Elizabeth, Lady Burwash, daughter of Theobald do Verdon, gave her lands in Bucknall to Adam de Bucken hall temp. Edward iii. Thomas Bokenhall was principal landowner in 22 Henry VI. In 1621 John Adams, of Byrcheshead, in Burslem parish, purchased a part of Bucknall from Ralph Bucknall, and his immediate descendants secured a larger part; while one branch of the family dwelt at Bucknall Hall alias “ The Big Haise,” for several centuries. In the 19th century much of it was acquired by Mr. John Sparrow, of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Bishton, and his daughters in Ward’s day were the Ladies of the Manor. Eaves is a hamlet adjoining Bucknall on the north-east; it was also anciently de Verdon property, but has since been acquired by others : and for about a hundred years the chief estate there, ” The Ash,” has been owned by the Meigh family. 1 SH C . 1910, p. 246. (S.H.C. =Staffs. Historical Collections). 2 Return of 1563. Ilarl. M S., Brit. Museum, 594, p.p. 172, 155—S.H.C. 1915, p. 250. 3 Ilist of Pirehill hundred S.H,C. Vol. xij, N.S., p. 32. ii. Staffordshire Parish Registers. Bucknall Church is known to have been re-built three times. In 1718 it was re-built according to local tradition from the ruins of the neighbouring StaffordshireAbbey of Hulton. Ward mentions an inscription which was on the walls of the Church in his day. “ Ligna lapis fiunt, Samuel Lea, Curate.— W . Adam s, W arden.— 1718.” It was well built of stone with chancel, nave, and fine square western tower. It had one bell, dated 1609, which was lost about i« 5 4 -4 In 1856 it was again re-built, and in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch, and an embattled tower on the south side containing six bells. In 1883 the Rev. S. H. Owen, Rector of Bucknall-cum-Bagnall, gave three stained glass windows, and in 1892 a fine iron chancel screen was added, lhe church was restored 1887-91. In 1732 Thomas Pare, of Bucknall, left to “ Thomas Allen, of Great Fenton, “ John Beech, of Shaw, psh. Kingsley, Stephen Wood, of Ash, Roger Wood, “ of Ash, and my nephew William Adams, £50 in hands of William Murhall, of “ Bagnall, to pay interest thereof to the School Master of the School lately “ built at Bucknall & endowed by Mr. Shalcross ..........................” Mr. William Shallcross and Mr. Stephen Wood left funds for the augmenta tion of the incumbency of Bucknall in 1714. From Shallcross Pedigrees, page clxi. (by Rev. W. H. Shawcross), there is the following note taken from Ecton’s A State of the Bounty of Queen Anne, 1721 :— “ Bucknall, 1714.— Mr. William Shalcross, for augmenting the Chap- “ pelry of Bucknal, in the Parish of Stoke, in the County of Stafford, by “ a Charge of a yearly Rent of £5.” S. Chad’s,5 Bagnall, a chapel of ease to Bucknall, is a building of stone in the GothicSample style and stands nearCounty or actually on the site of a much earlier building which had a belfry of wood. It occurs in Saxton’s Map of 1577. The present church consists of chancel, nave, south porch, vestry, and an embattled western tower containing one bell. There is also a lych gate. It stands high and is beautifully situated. The east window was erected in 1883, and there are others placed there by the late Rector, the Rev. S. H. Owen : one of the windows is of French glass purchased at Amiens. Bagnall is a place of great antiquity and the market cross and an ancient column in the church yard are probably anterior to the church itself. A large market is said to have been held at Bagnall. Eyton, p. 229, considers there to be some uncertainty about Bagnall in the Domesday Survey, and that it was probably included in Endon (Leek parish). In the reign of Henry II. Bagnall belonged to Ives de Pantune,Studies who granted it to Adam dc Audley, by whose descendants it was incorporated with the manor of Horton. In 1299 the Abbot of Combermere sued William dc Bagenholt for half the Manor of Bagnall. Walter Chetwynd says that “ about ye beginning of Henry iii. I find mention of one Roger de Baggenhall, and 1 Edward i. Wm. de Baggcnhall had lands here, which lands his son Robert was certified to hold by ye 10th part of a Knight’s fee (14 Edward ii.) of Ralph, Ld. Stafford.”6 Members of the Bagnall family (who were at one time Lords of the Manor of Hanley) migrated to Newcastle-under-Lyme and Barlaston, also to Ireland. Sir Nicolas Bagnall, Knight, Marshall of Ireland, who died 1 5 7 5 . was the 2nd son of John Bagnall, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Mayoi of that Borough 1519. But the principal family at Bagnall were the Murhalls; the earliest document we have in which they occur is the inquisition Post-Mortem concerning William Murhall, of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Bucknall (Bagnall), dated at Windsor 19th February, 1253. The family held lands at Shelton as well as Newcastle-under- L ym e. 4 The Archdeaconry o f .Stoke-on-Trent, by Sanford 3V. H utchinson, 1883. 5 S. Chad, modern, anciently S. Michari. i) Hist, of Tirehill Hundred. S.H.C., Vol. xil, N.S., p. 28, Bucknall-cmn-Bagnall. iii. Merrial Street, Newcastle, is an ancient name and was called after that Staffordshirefam ily. On the 23rd November, 1598, John Morrall de Bagnald married Jane Colclough (of the Colclough family of Dclph House, Cheadle) at Dilhorne. The initials J. M. 1603 on the present Bagnall Hall were probably put there by this John Murhall.7 In the 6th year of Charles I. John Murrall, of Bagnall, com pounded for Knighthood. William Murhall, of Bagnall, was High Sheriff for Staffordshire in 1696-7, and his successor, Wm. Murhall, of Bagnall, was High Sheriff in 1742. This last named was the Wm. Murhall who is still the subject of traditionary fame for the summary justice he, as a Magistrate of the county, -—at the time of the ’45— inflicted upon one of the Scottish stragglers who fell into his hands.