1906. BR EWOOD. 1562-1649. Staffocbsbire IParisb IRegister Society. Editor and Secretary : REV. F. J. WROTTESLEY, Denstone Vicarage^ UUoxeier. Deanery of Penkridge. Brewoob parisb IRcGister. Vol. I. Privately printed for the Staffordshire Parish Register Society. All Communications respecting the printing and transcription of Registers and the issue of the parts should be addressed to the Editor. Attention is especially directed to Notices on inside of Cover. — — — to the ' F^ AT. by President The Earl of Dartmouth. Editor and Secretary Rev. F. J. Wrottesley, Denstone Vicarage, Uttoxeter. 'T'HE Council has the pleasure of placing in the hands of Members the seventh instalment of Staffordshire Parish Registers consisting of the following : Parish. Deanery. Trentham (2 parts) Trentham. Brewood (pt. i.) Penkridge. Rocester (pt. i) Uttoxeter. Indices for Haughton and Standon. EUastone (pt i.) and Eccleshall (pt. i.) to follow. ^ Subscriptions for 1905 should be paid to the accoant of the Staffordshire Parish Register Society at Lloyds Bank, Stafford. The following Registers have been published : —Casde gliurch (2 parts), Stafford; Milwich, Stafford; Haughton, Stafford; B-arton- parts), under-Needwood (2 parts), Tutbury ; Alstonfield (4 AL^ton- field ; Standon, Eccleshall; Hamstail Ridware (pt. i.), K:Ugeley; Tatenhill, Tutbury ; Berkswich-with-Walton, Stafford ; Pipe Rjdware, Rugeley ; Barlaston, Trentham. Each part may be purchafeci at a cost of 5s., on application to the " Staffordshire Advertiser^ Office, Stafford. Indexing. —The Council will be very pleased to receive offers of help in indexing the various Registers, as also offers of Tran- scribing. Offers of help may be sent to the Editor. Brit^ham Younif University Harold B. Lee Library Gift of Manti Stake Family History Center z^ ^ 1^^^^^ cj^i>^^^^^ . f p. o Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Brigham Young University http://www.archive.org/details/brewoodparishreg01brew I/. M906. BREWOOD 1562-1649. Statforbsbite patisb IRegister Society, Editor and Secretary: REV. F. J. WROTTESLEY, Denstone Vicarage^ Uitoxeter. Deanery of Penkridge. Brewoob parish IReoister^ Vol. I. Privately printed for the Staffordshire Parish Register Society. All Communications respecting the printing and transcription of Registers and the issue of the parts should be addressed to the Editor. Attention is especially directed to Notices on inside of Cover. HAROLD B.LFr-L.L^'Qv BRIGHAM YOUNG UNiV^^^ PROV't' Brcwoob. Brewood, D Breude, " hill wood," was a Manor of the Bishops of Chester, with a Church and a resident priest, dating back to Saxon times. In the Parish were the Manors of Chillington, Coven, Engleton, Gunston, Hyde, Bromhall, Brinsford, Aspley, and Somerford. Brewood was once a royal forest, but it was disafiorested by King John, who visited Brewood in the years 1200, 1206, and 1207, and stayed at the Bishop's Manor House, which was probably close to the Church. In the year 122 1, through Bishop Cornhull, a market was granted to be held every Friday ; and once there stood an old Market Cross in the Square that still bears the name of Market Square, which fell down in 1810. In the year 1256 Bishop Weseham retired from his See and lived in the Manor House, but died in the following year. At Black Ladies, in the Parish of Bishopswood, which was separated from Brewood and made a separate Parish in 1852, was a Benedictine Nunnery, dedicated to St. Mary, which may have owed its origin to one of the Bishops of Lichfield. It was founded before 1162, as Margery, one of the daughters of Sir Ralph de Coven, who married Henry de Parco, endowed it with an annual rent of i6d. on land in Horsebrook, The last Prioress was Isabella Launder, and at the Dissolution Sir Thomas Giffard bought the site, together with the Church, water mill, and a pasture, the annual value of which was estimated at £7 9s. id., for £134 is. 8d., and had to pay an annual rent of 15s. The house became a residence of that family till 1718. A long law suit was entered on between the parochial authorities of Brewood and the Giffards to bring Blackladies within the jurisdiction of Brewood for rateable purposes, in which the Parish of Brewood was successful. The old Chapel was used for service with a resident priest till 1840, when the Roman Church was built in Brewood, and one of the last priests, John Roe, pastor of Blackladies for 48 years, lies buried in the ruins of White Ladies. At a short distance from Black Ladies was the Cistercian Monastery of White Ladies, dedicated to St. Leonard, which is situated in the extra parochial Boscobel, '' the beautiful wood," where Edward Giffard, son of Thomas, about a.d. 1580, built a house for the concealment of Ministers of his faith, as also a residence for himself. Boscobel passed from the Giffards to the Cottons by the marriage of Frances, daughter of John Giffard, to John Cotton, who died in 1654, leaving an only daughter, Jane, who married Basil Fitzherbert, of Norbury and Swinnerton. Their descendant, Thomas Fitzherbert, sold White Ladies and Boscobel in 1812 to a Mr. Evans, whose representatives now possess it. THE HYDE—" AN ESTATE." The first of the name of de Hyde is found in the reign of King John, and the Manor remained in the hands of that family till a.d. 1418, when the last of the family, EUzabeth, married Richard Lane and brought to that family the Manors of Hyde, Gunston, and Bromhall. The family of the Lanes sprimg from Wolver- hampton. Richard Lane was buried in Brewood Chiirch, as was also his son John Lane and his wife Margaret, and their tombstone, which was originally in the Lady Chapel at the east end of the south aisle, was discovered at the restoration of the Church in 1878, and placed at the west end of the south aisle, and in a window in the south aisle were the Arms of Richard Lane, John Lane, and Margaret nis wife. The last of the Lanes to possess this Manor was Thomas Lane, who died in i775. but before this the Manor of Hyde passed to the Giffards by purchase. Staffordshire Parish Registers. SOMERFORD—" SUMMER FORD " ? The Manor of Somerford was carved out of the Bishop's Manor of Brewood by a grant of Robert Peche, who held the See from a.d. 1120 to 1126, the Bishop's Saxon tenant Frane being dead and leaving an only daughter Hainilda. Frane had held an hereditary forest office, but his daughter was unmarried, and so the Bishop enfeoffs Richard de Somerford, who was to perform the service due from the land and to receive the profits of the Manor, and on the death of Hainilda to receive the lands. The family of Somerford continued till 1704, when Sir Walter Wrottesley, who had purchased the Manor from the Mortgagees of John Somerford, lived at Somerford during the re-building of his house at Wrottesley. He died in 1712, and was buried at Brewood, as was also his widow, Dame Anne, who was his second wife and a daughter of Mr. Justice Burton, of Longnor, Co. Salop. She died in 1732, leaving the Manor of Somerford to her daughter x\nn, the wife of Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., of Owthorpe, Co. Notts, in trust for sale, and it was sold in 1734 for ,(5,400 to Robert Barbor, Esq., of the Inner Temple. In 1779 it was purchased by the Hon. Ed. Monckton, and is now in the possession of F. Monckton, Esq. BROMHALL— «' BROOM-MEADOW." As to Bromhall, we have a grant of this Manor (a.d. 1150-1152) from Walter Durdent, Bishop of Coventry, to Ralph de Harborne, of all the land in Bromhall, with the same judicial power as the Bishop himself possessed in his Manor of Brewood, and the issue of Ralph took up their abode at Bromhale and founded a family named after it. This family lasted till the year 1326, when it became merged with the Manor of the Hyde, in possession of Thomas de la Hyde and Mar- garet his wife, who was probably a de Bromhale. From the Hydes it passed to the Lanes, and in 2 H. VI. the Lanes sold it to John Leveson, of Wolverhampton, who in 15 Eliz. sold it to John Leveson, of Little Wyrley, Esq., who sold it to Roger Fowke, of Brewood, Esq. It was for many years the residence of the family of Careless, and the birthplace of the famous Colonel Carlos who shared the Boscobel oak with Charles 11. on September 6th, 165 1. At a later period when Bromhall was in the possession of the Giffards in 1724 Peter Giffard was obhged to have recoiurse to an action for ejectment, which was tried at Stafford. ENGLETON. Engleton (" English town ") is another old Manor and seat of a family which took their name from the place. The earliest known was Ralph de Engleton ( 1 150-2). The last of the family was Hugh, who left a daughter, married to Thomas de Levereshead. On his death he left two daughters—Joan who married Adam de Wisbrid, and Eleanor. On their death the Manor came to Alan de Withyford and Joan his wife, who was a daughter of Joan de Wisbrid, and they willed it to Roger Fowke and Elizabeth his wife. From the Fowkes it passed to the Husseys, and in 1767 Phineas Hussey, of Little Wyrley, Esq., sold it to Thomas Phmley, of Brewood Hall, F:sq., who in 1786 sold it to the Hon. Edward Monckton, and it is now in possession of his representative, F. Monckton, Esq. But the principal family at Engleton, though they never possessed the Manor, was the Moretons.