A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



escheating to the lord of Walton, 1 it was acquired by 

 the Fazakerley family, 2 and descended with their share 

 of the manor until 1728-9, becoming the property of 

 James, tenth earl of Derby. 3 



Among the earlier families may be named those ot 

 Hauerbergh, Quicke or Whike, 4 Rice and Halsall. 5 

 Thomas Harrison, of Walton, as a ' papist ' registered 

 an estate in lyiy. 6 The land tax returns of 1785 

 show that there were then a large number of pro- 

 prietors ; the chief were the rector, John Atherton, 



Abraham Crompton, Lord Derby, Howard, 



and S. H. Fazakerley. 



One of the notabilities of the village was John 

 Holt, 7 schoolmaster, parish clerk, and antiquary, who 

 died in 1801. 



An enclosure award for Walton-on-the-Hill and 

 Fazakerley was made in 1763.* 



A local board was formed in 1863 9 and a school 

 board in i883. 10 The township was incorporated 

 within the borough of Liverpool in 1895, when 

 three wards were assigned to it, each with an alder- 

 man and three councillors. 



The parish church has been described already ; a 

 mission room in Rice Lane was opened in 1890. A 

 number of churches have been built in recent times 

 for the worship of the Established Church. These 

 are as follows : Holy Trinity, Walton Breck, built 

 in 1847; patron, Mr. J. H. Stock. The old St. 

 Peter's, Aintree, at one time the Aintree cockpit, was 

 opened for service as an Episcopal chapel in 1 848, but 

 never consecrated. The present church was built in 

 1877 ; the rector of Sefton is patron, the marquis de 

 Rothwell having given a large contribution to the 

 building fund on that condition." 



St. John the Evangelist's, Warbreck, was built in 

 1 88 1, an iron church having been used for ten 

 years. 12 Emmanuel is a chapel of ease. The patronage 

 is in the hands of official trustees the bishop and 

 archdeacon of Liverpool and the rector of Walton. 

 St. Margaret's, Belmont Road, a large and dignified 

 church of brick, was erected in 1873 ; the patronage 

 is vested in the Preston trustees. 13 St. Luke the Evan- 

 gelist's, Spellow, dates from 1882, a temporary 

 building giving place to a permanent one in 1892; 

 the bishop of Liverpool collates. St. Simon and St. 

 Jude's, Anfield, is the result of work begun in a room 

 in Anfield House, since demolished, in 1883 ; an iron 

 church followed in 1884, and on the demolition of 

 St. Barnabas', Toxteth, the money received was 

 applied to the building of the church, which was con- 

 secrated in 1896. The patronage is vested in trustees. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have several churches. 



Kirkdale Chapel, in County Road, dates from 1880 ; 

 Anfield Chapel, in Oakfield Road, from 1885; and 

 Walton Chapel, in Rice Lane, from 1890. There are 

 others at Warbreck Moor, 1 899, and Cowley Road, 

 1903. In Anglesea Road is a preaching room. The 

 United Methodist Free Church has a school chapel, 

 built in 1890. The Primitive Methodists have 

 churches in Walton and Warbreck. 



The Baptist church in Carisbrooke Road was 

 opened in 1879 ; that in Rice Lane in 1888. 



In 1870 the Congregationalists began to conduct 

 services in an uninhabited house in Walton Park ; a 

 school chapel was opened in the following year, which 

 was enlarged in 1875. Services were also commenced 

 in a mission hall in Rice Lane in 1890." 



In Walton Park the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists 

 have a church. For their English-speaking members 

 there are chapels in Spellow Lane and Breeze Hill. 



The Presbyterian Church of England has Trinity 

 Church in Rice Lane, built in 1 898, the congregation 

 having been formed in 1881. 



The provision possible after the Reformation for 

 Roman Catholics is unknown ; but as the three 

 squires, down to 1715 at least, and many of the 

 inhabitants 15 were numbered among them it is prob- 

 able that missionary priests were able to minister here 

 at intervals. A mission at Fazakerley was served from 

 Lydiate till the end of the eighteenth century. The 

 existing churches, however, are of recent foundation. 

 That of the Blessed Sacrament, Warbreck, originated 

 in 1872 in the saying of mass in a barn, generously 

 lent by a Protestant ; the church was opened on 

 Trinity Sunday, 1878. Work at St. Francis of 

 Sales' in Hale Road had an equally humble beginning, 

 a stable being used from 1883 to 1887, when a 

 school chapel was erected. All Saints', Walton Breck, 

 also a school chapel, was opened in iSSg. 16 



FAZAKERLEY 



Fazakerley, 1321 ; Phesacrelegh, 1333. 



In the thirteenth century Fazakerley was one of 

 the Walton town fields, adjoining which, as the wood- 

 lands were cleared, there grew up a hamlet and ulti- 

 mately a township. Extending about two miles in 

 each direction, this township has an area of 1,709 

 acres." It is separated from Walton by the brook 

 called Fazakerley or Tue Brook, and from West Derby 

 partly by Sugar Brook up to the point where it is 

 spanned by Stone bridge. At the junction of these 

 brooks on the border of Kirkby in the north-east the 



1 In 1340 a messuage and ploughland 

 in Walton were in the king's hands, ow- 

 ing to the outlawry for felony of Thomas 

 de Spellow, who had held them of Simon 

 de Walton. After a year and a day had 

 elapsed Simon was put in seisin of the 

 same by the sheriff; Cal. of Close, 1339- 

 41, p. 552. 



a It appears to have been part of the 

 third share of the manor given to Ellen, 

 wife of Robert de Fazakerley. 



Deed of sale by Robert Fazakerley 

 and others ; Knowsley muniments. The 

 property included Spellow House with 

 40 acres of land in Walton, and land in 

 Rosemary or Fazakerley Street and neigh- 

 bourhood in Liverpool. The name is 

 preserved by Spellow Lane, part of the 

 boundary between Kirkdale and Walton, 

 and by the railway station. 



4 In 1292 Henry son of John de la 

 Wyke unsuccessfully claimed certain land 

 against Richard son of William, son of 

 William de Walton, asserting the defen- 

 dant entered into the land not through 

 John Gernet but through his grandfather ; 

 Assize R. 408, m. 31. 



5 No detailed accounts can be given of 

 these families, but a few particulars may 

 be gained from the notes. For a case in 

 1334 involving many members of the Rice 

 family see Coram Reg. R. 297, m. 3 d. 



6 Engl. Catb. Non-jurors, III. 



7 A biography with portrait is given in 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. vi, 57. 



8 Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 47. The Act was passed 

 in 1759. 



Land. Gaz. 10 March, 1863. 

 10 Ibid. 2 Jan. 1883. 

 28 



11 Information of Rev. W. Warburton, 

 formerly incumbent. 



" For district see LonJ. Ga*. 2 Sept. 

 1 88 1 ; and for endowment 1 1 Aug. 1882, 

 and 8 June, ,883. 



18 Ibid. 20 Oct. 1874; endowment, 

 12 Nov. 1875, and 18 Feb. 1881. The 

 first incumbent, the Rev. John Sheep- 

 shanks, was appointed bishop of Norwich, 

 1893. 



14 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. vi, 216. 



u For a list of recusants in 1641 see 

 Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiv, 237, 

 and for the numbers in 1717 and 1767 

 ibid, icviii, 215. Spellow House had a 

 chapel and was ' full of hiding-places ' ; 

 Gillow, Bihl. Diet, of Engl. Caths. ii, 233. 



" Liverpool Cath. Ann. 1901. 



1,7 10, including four of inland water, 

 Census Report, 1901. 



