nl'jiuujii '_'.. 942.71019 Aalp v. 5 1412748 GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00673 7156 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/cheshireparishre05phil General Editor ... ... T. M. Blagg, F.S.A. CHESHIRE PARISH REGISTERS fEmrrfages. FHILUMORES PARISH REGISTER SERIES. VOL. CCXV1. (CHESHIRE, VOL. V.) One hundred and fifty printed. f c \ 3.j •- : Cheshire Parish Registers. flftaruages. General Editor: THOS. M. BLAGG, F.S.A. ~+> ,i - - \ v . ... * VOL. V. Edited bv LEOPOLD CHOICE. Xonoon Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd. 124, Chancery Lane. 1914. 1112748 PREFACE. The present volume contains abstracts of the Marriage Registers of Alderley, Bosley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Marton, Poynton-cum- Worth, Siddington and Pott Shrigley. It also brings the Marriages at Taxal, down to 1837, as when those Registers were dealt with previously (in Vol I.) they stopped at 181 2. All the above places were anciently Chapelries of the enormous parish of Prestbury and have at one time or another been separated from it, Prestbury parish now retaining only the Chapelries or townships of Kettleshulme, Saltersford, Lyme and Adlington. There are are no old Registers belonging to Adlington. Saltersford Registers are kept at Prestbury and contain no Marriages. With the Registers given in this volume Macclesfield now remains the only other Chapelry of this enormous parish which has any Marriage Registers not printed. These we hope to deal with in the next volume, after which we hope to continue the Prestbury Marriages from the date (17S9) at which they were discontinued in Vol. IV. Marriages occurring before and after the ratnge-dates of the various Chapelry Registers must be sought for in the Registers of Prestbury, the " Mother Church." The abstracts here printed are entirely the work of Mr. Leopold Choice. The thanks of the Subscribers are due to the Incumbents for permission to make and print the abstracts. Their names are mentioned under their respective parishes. The chief : contractions used are w.=widow or widower ; p.=parish of; /zV.=married by licence. It should be remembered that previous to 2-752 the year was calculated as beginning on the 25th of March, instead of the 1st of January, so that a marriage tdking place on say 20th February, 1625, would be on that <3ate in 1626, according to our reckoning ; but as the civil a.nd ecclesias- tical year were both used, this is sometimes expressed by 20th Feb., 162*. In all cases where the marriage is stated tto have taken place by Licence, that fact is recorded, as the searcher thereby knows that further information as to the age, parentage and vocation of the parties is pralnably recover- able from the Allegations in the Archdearxaoiry or other office from which the Licence issued. After 1753 it is to be assumed that all pastnes not other- wise described are stated to be of the horse parish, and bachelor and spinster respectively. It might be well to remind the reader thit these printed abstracts of the Registers are not legal "residence." For certificates application must be made to the local clergy. T.M.B. 124, Chancery Lane, London, L. C. December , 1914. Contents Cbesbitre parieb IRegteters. Marriages at Alderley, 1629 to 1837. Xote.—The Parish of Alderley comprises the Townships of Over Alderley, Nether Alderley and Great Warford. In early times it formed a part of the vast parish of Prestbury, to which it was styled a " Parochial Chapelry " [and therefore probably a part and parcel of the Abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester], but —no record of its dismemberment from the Mother Church exists " Notuia Cestriensis." The Church, which is situated in Nether Alderley, is dedicated " to St. Mary, but it would appear from the " Institution Book that it was formerly called St. Laurence, so styled in 1536 when Pech3m held the right of presentation to the living. Amongst the many noted rectors of Alderley may be mentioned Edward Stanley, whose baptism is recorded in the registers, 21 Feb.. 1779. He was presented by his father, Sir John Stanley, Bart., to the living in 1805, which he held and resided at Alderley until his appointment to the Bishopric of Norwich in 1S37. He was a ready- writer and his work on British birds is an authority. His second son, Arthur Penrhyn, will be remembered as the much-loved Dean Stanley, of Westminster. The Marriage registers for the period under review number four. Volume I. contains 133I parchment leaves, measuring 16 by 7 inches, bound in leather-covered boards. It records the Baptisms, " Marriages and Burials from 1629 to 1760, and " Banns of Marriage from 1754 to 1761. The volume requires rebinding, otherwise it is in good condition. From the commencement to the year 1732 the entries have been well recorded in Latin and only in a few peaces is the ink at all faded. It will be noticed that during the Common- wealth a fair number of Civil Marriages is given, but there does not appear to be any note of the appointment of a " Register." Volume II. is the usual printed form as directed under Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1754. This register records the Marriages from 1754 to 1806. Volume III. is the usual printed form, as in volume II., and records the Marriages from 1807 to 1S12. Cheshire—V. b Cheshire Parish Registers. [1629 Volume IV. is the usual printed form, as required by the Rose Act, 52 Geo. III., c. 146, and records the Marriages from 1813 to 1837- This Transcript has been made and contributed to this series by Mr. Leopold Choice, and is now printed by leave of the Rev. Cecil B. Wcli.ind, M.A., rector of Aldeiley. Volume I. " This Register booke was bought in the yeare of our Lord god 1627 by Thomas Leighe Churchwarden for Over- Alderley the same yeare and did begin in the yeare of our Lord god 1629." " Incipit hoc Registrum de Matrimoniis, Anno Do. 1629." Rogerus Lea & Anna Acton 18 May 1629 Henricus Shelmerdine & Maria Fallowes 6 June ,, Radulphus Gee & Anna Birchenough 16 June ,, Johannes Storer & Joanna Robinson 8 July „ Edwardus Lee & Elizabeth Sinderhille[Cin- derhill] ... 28 July „ Radulphus Bower, of Widford [Woodford], & Margareta Dean... ... «... 28 Sep. Edwardus Barber & Catherine Varden Edmund Dicken & Anna Fitton Dr. Samuel Harsnet, Arch Episcopus Ebora- sensis Visitatis apud Mancestre Radulphus Lingart & Maria Whittakers Tho[mas] Shore & Margarita Graunge Gulielmus Pedley, alias Partington, & Eliza- beth Janson Thomas Shipton & Catherina Wood Thomas Deane, of Brinlow [?Brinklow], & Margareta Burgesse Humphredus Bayly & Anna Watkins Johannes Bett & Alicia Barrow Jarvetius Coates & Margarita Simcocke Thomas Rylance & Margarita Leigh Edwardus Dawson & Elizabethae Johnson ... Johannes Barrow & Elizabethae Foden Johannes Foxson & Elizabethae Deane Robertus Downes & Maria Burgesse Humphredus Peers & Jana Philips j6.ii] Alderlcy Marriages. Robertas Curbisley & Elizabethae Burgesse I July Gulielmus Hugh & Elizabethae Dickinson ... Samuelis Shipton & Abigail Marsh Thomas Deane & Frances Maddock Petrus Gilbody & Anna Swaine Richardus Buckley & Catherina Davenport ... Phillipus Hyde & Margareta Crowder Johannes Bennet & Alicia Litton ... Randulphus Foden & Elizabethae Nor- burye Jonas Clough & Elizabethae Bowyer Gulielmus Davenport & Alicia Deane Johannes Heald & Dorothea Royle Robertus Worthington & Maria Deane Gulielmus Barrow & Elizabethae Dean Gulielmus Linney & Elizabethae Black- shaw Thomas Walton & Katharina Henshaw Petrus Bromfield & Jana Judson ... Radulphus Barber & Elizabethea Cheetom ... Thomas Whittakers & Ellena Norbury Thomas Hobson & Margareta Moores Gulielmus Bennison & Francisca Deane *Samuelis Shipton & Elizabethae Doxye Gulielmus Taylor & Elena Henshaw Edmundus Wood & Elizabethae Daniel Jacobus Whittakers & Elizabethae Browne ... Humphredus Bradford & Maria Skelhorne ... Edwardus Johnson & Elizabethae Swaine ... Johannes Acton & Maria Bowler ... Thomas Tudman & Elizabethae Eaton Thomae Braddock & Maria Doxey •Samuel Shipton, B.D., was the son of Edward Shipton, M.A., the previous rector of Alderley, by Elizabeth Rawson, and matriculated at All Souls' Coll., Oxford, in 1623, aged 17. He was tutor at Brdzeaose to Sir Peter Leycester, who calls him " an honest learned man." He was presented to the rectory of Alderley by Sir Thomas Stanley, from which he was ejected as a Royalist in 1643, but was re-instated in if>6o and held the living until his death in 1670. He married (1) Abigail, daughter of Robert Marsh, of Hallywell, co. Lane, and (2) Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Doxey, of Leek Frith, co. Staf. B 2 4 Cheshire Parish Registers. [1642 Phillipus Clayton & Susanna Taylor ... 15 Aug. 1642' Johannes Whitticars & Jana Swan... ... 3 June 1644 *Petrus Wilbraham & Maria Stanley ... 6 Sep. 1647 Thomas Roylands & Susanna Strettell ... 8 Nov. 1648 Johannes Bett & Catherina Whittmore ... 29 July 1650 Nicholous Stevenson & Maria Chetwind ... 24 Jan. „ fjohn Leigh, of Booth, esquire, & Elizabeth Stanley ... .. ... ... 14 Aug. 1652 Thomas Roylands & Mary Henshaw ... 17 May 1653 William Cheare, of Astle, within the Chapelry of Chelford, s. of John Cheare, late of Over Peover, deceased, & Margaret Jackson, of this p., d. of John Jackson, late of Wilmslow, deceased, were married before the Right Worshipfull Thomas Stanley, esqre., Justice of the Peace ... 12 Apr. 1654 [An example of the formula of these Civil Marriage entries is given in the entry for yd October, 1655. L.C] James Harrison, s. of Robert Harrison, of Fulshaw, p. Wilmslow, & Ellen Hassle- hurst, d. of Edward Hasslehurst, of Warford, p. Alderley, were married before the Right Worshipfull Thomas Stanley, esqre., Justice of the Peace ... ... ... and[ ] 15 May 1654 Peter, s. of William Hall, of Warford, & Margery Redrope, d. of Richard •Peter Wilbraham, fourth son of Roger Wilbraham, of Dorford, co. Chester, Esq., by Mary, dt. of Thomas Ravenscroft, of Bretton, co. Flint,=Mary, dt. of Sir Thomas Stanley, of Alderley, Bart. Ormerod. fElizabeth Stanley, a daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley, of Weever and Alderley, Bart., by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Pytts, of Kyre, co.