SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



Sarah BrearclifFe,'" Thomas Henshaw ;''^for Blackley 

 —Adam Chetham,'^^ Thomas and John Traves ; "« 

 for Didsbury, &c. — Sir Edward Mosley,"^ Thomas 

 Chorlton,"* Sergeant Boardman,"* Ann Bland and 

 Thomas Linney/"* Edward Hampson ; *^^ and for 

 Salford — Humphrey Booth the elder/^* his grandson 

 Humphrey Booth the younger,***^ Charles Broster/®^ 

 Charles Haworth,"^ Robert Cuthbertson,"** George 

 Buerdsell/" Thomas Dickanson,"'' John Caldwell,*'^ 



Alexander and Mary Davie/" and Samuel Haward."^ 

 The partial report of 1904 shows that many of the 

 above stocks are still available, and that some new 

 ones have been added ; these were, excluding 

 church*^* and educational and recreative endow- 

 ments,*^' as follows : — For Didsbury — Sarah Feilden, 

 for the poor ; *^^ for Heaton Norris — Sir Ralph Pen- 

 dlebury, stocks producing £^,yz2 a year for children 

 of this and some other townships/^^ Rev, Stephen 



597 she died in 1803, having in 1792 

 given ^3,000 on trust for the relief of 

 fifteen old housekeepers of Manchester 

 and Salford. The income is now ^^97 loj., 

 and is distributed by the trustees. 



898 jje was a hat-maker at Oldham, 

 and died in 18 10, having left ^^40,000 for 

 a blue-coat school at Oldham, and 

 ^20,000 for a blind asylum at Manches- 

 ter, forbidding the money to be used in 

 the purchase of land. In consequence of 

 this provision nothing had been done in 

 1826 towards carrying out the testator's 

 object, but the money was accumulating at 

 interest. A blind asylum was in 1837 

 built at Old Trafford. 



899 In 1625 he gave a messuage and 

 land in Blackley for the minister of the 

 chapel (one-third), and the poor of the 

 township (two-thirds). A poor-house was 

 afterwards built on part of the land. The 

 present income is ^^23 12s., which is given 

 to the preacher at Blackley and to the 

 poor. 



400 This arose from two sums of ,^20 

 each given in 1721 and later, half the 

 interest to be given to the minister of 

 Blackley Chapel and half ta the poor. 

 The income, ^l 6s. gd., is now given by 

 the trustees to the poor. 



^''^ In 1695 he charged his manors 

 of Withington and Heaton Norris with 

 j^4 for the poor of the two townships, 

 and £4. for Didsbury School. In 1826 

 both rent-charges were paid by Robert 

 Feilden out of lands formerly part of the 

 manor of Withington. Colonel Robert 

 Feilden of Beblngton, grandson of the 

 preceding, in 1874 disputed his liability, 

 and dying soon afterwards his estate at 

 Didsbury was sold, and the charity was 

 lost. 



'^^^ In 1728 he charged his lands at 

 Grundy Hill in Heaton Norris with the 

 payment of ^^5 yearly, of which ^^i was 

 to go to the schoolmaster at Barlow Moor 

 End, and ^4 was to be given in bread 

 to the poor each Sunday in Didsbury 

 Chapel. This is now incorporated with 

 the following. 



-JO^In 1768 he left ^^50 for a bread 

 charity similar to the preceding, and the 

 two appear always to have been adminis- 

 tered together. The total income, 

 jQ6 iSs. 8f/., is given in bread at the 

 churches of St. James, Didsbury ; St. Paul, 

 Withington ; and St. John the Baptist, 

 Heaton Mersey. 



*W Dame Ann Bland and Thomas 

 Linney gave £j-00 each for the poor of 

 Didsbury and district. Twyford'a Warth 

 was purchased, and the rent, ;f 13, was in 

 1 826 distributed according to the founders' 

 wishes. The rent is now £•/ ioj., of 

 which half is distributed in the township 

 of Didsbury, and half in that of Withing- 

 ton, in accordance with customary prac- 

 tice. 



"lo* He in 1 81 1 left ^^400 to pay certain 

 legacies, and to use the interest of the 

 remainder to pay £1 to the preaching 

 minister of Didsbury, £1 to the school- 



master, and ^i to the singers. In 1826 

 the said remainder (j^ioo) was in the 

 hands of Robert Feilden, who paid ^^5 as 

 interest. The above-named Colonel 

 Feilden desired to repudiate liability for 

 this also, but was obliged to admit it. His 

 representatives after 1874 succeeded in 

 evading it. 



406 for an account of the Booths see 

 the townships of Salford and Moston. 



The income of the elder Humphrey's 

 foundation now amounts to ^17,000 a 

 year. In 1630 he gave land by the road 

 from Manchester to Shooter's Brook (now 

 at the junction of Piccadilly and Port 

 Street), and three closes called Millward's 

 Croft (or Mileworth Croft, also called, it 

 appears, the Tue Fields, at the junction of 

 Great Bridgewater Street and Oxford 

 Street), all in Manchester, for the relief 

 of * poor, aged, needy, or impotent people ' 

 of Salford. In 1776 an Act of Parlia- 

 ment was obtained enabling the trustees 

 to grant building leases. Sec. In 1826 

 the money was disbursed by constables 

 and churchwardens of Salford in weekly 

 doles, in gifts of linen and in blankets. 



'^^ In 1672 he left a house, &c., in the 

 Gravel Hole (Gravel Lane), land near 

 Broken Bank (the Chequers), and land 

 with a well called Oldfield Well for the 

 repair of Salford Chapel ; the overplus 

 to be distributed to the poor at Christ- 

 mas in the same - manner as his grand- 

 father's charity. The present income is 



;^I,000. 



*08 He left ;^ioo (in or before 1787) 

 for the purchase of a rent-charge ; half the 

 income was to be given to the poor in 

 coals, and the other half spent on clothing 

 poor children. With interest the fund 

 accumulated to ;^i5o, which was added to 

 the elder Booth's fund, the trustees pay- 

 ing ^^7 loj. as interest. This sum is still 

 paid. 



^09 In 1636 he gave j^io for the benefit 

 of the poor ; in 1826 the capital was in- 

 tact, and I05. a year was paid to the 

 churchwardens and constables, who laid it 

 out on clothing. It appears to have been 

 lost since. 



410 He left, by his will of 1683, ^100 

 for the poor, apparently as an augmenta- 

 tion of the Booth Charity ; land in 

 Droylsden was purchased, from which in 

 1826 a rent of £^ was derived, spent on 

 blankets. The same rent is still re- 

 ceived. 



^11 In 1690-3 he gave a messuage, &c., 

 in Fore Street (or Chapel Street) for the 

 benefit of the poor, the distribution being 

 entrusted to the borough-reeve and con- 

 stables. The present income is £$jz. 



''I' In 1697 he bequeathed a messuage, 

 &c., in Salford for the provision of* eight 

 coats for eight poor old men of the town 

 of Salford, such as should constantly fre- 

 quent the church ; the same to be made 

 new and ready on Christmas Day yearly, 

 with such badge upon the same as the 

 feoffees should think fit.* The estate was 

 released in 1711. About 1801 the land 



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was leased out in parcels at a total rental 

 of j^42 1 5^. ; the present income is 



^13 By his will of 1744 he left half the 

 moiety of the residue of his estate for the 

 poor, to be expended in shirts and shifts, 

 and the balance in coal ; but ,f 50 of it 

 was to go to the endowment of * the offi- 

 ciating clerk in the chapel at Salford.' In 

 the result j^ 1 00 was received by the trus- 

 tees, and in 1826 half the interest (viz. 

 j^2 51.) was paid to the clerk, and the 

 other half given to fourteen aged poor 

 persons as directed. The present income 



41** Alexander Davie gave a rent-charge 

 of j^2 loj. on lands at Sandywell, and 

 Mary Davie left ^^50 for a bread charity. 

 In 1826 j^5 was received, to which the 

 j^5 from Haward's Charity was added, 

 and forty-eight penny loaves were given 

 each Sunday after service at Trinity 

 Chapel. The ^^5 is still received. 



41* This charity chiefly concerns Old- 

 ham, but j^5 is paid out of it to Salford ; 

 for the benefactor see Pal. Note Bk. iii, 

 89. The Manchester Charities of Cathe- 

 rine Fisher, Humphrey Oldfield, and Sarah 

 BrearclifFe are in part available for Sal- 

 ford. 



•"6 St. Paul's Church, Chorlton-with- 

 Hardy ; Old Methodist Chapel, Levens- 

 hulme ; Wesleyan Chapel, Stretford ; 

 Brookfield Parsonage, Gorton (Unitarian); 

 Mission Room, Heaton Norris ; Albert 

 Park Wesleyan Chapel, Didsbury ; Christ 

 Church, Heaton Norris ; St, Matthew's, 

 Stretford ; Christ Church, Denton. 



^"i Hulme Grammar School, Withing- 

 ton ; Recreation Ground, Heaton Nor- 

 ris ; Mechanics' Institution and Schools, 

 Levenshulme ; Christ Church School, 

 Moss Side ; Library and Technical Insti- 

 tute, Stretford ; Library, Denton ; School 

 and Mechanics' Institute, Droylsden ; 

 School, Gorton (Richard Taylor). 



^18 Founded in 1835; the income 

 (j^2 I2f. 4^/.) is distributed in coals by the 

 Rector of St. James's, Didsbury. 



^19 By his will of 1861 Sir Ralph left his 

 residuary estate to certain persons, telling 

 them that he had intended It for a charit- 

 able purpose, but was prevented by a legal 

 difficulty. A long lawsuit followed, and 

 by costs and payments to next-of-kin 

 the residue was reduced from ^^120,000 

 to ^^78,000 by 1872. It then became 

 possible to carry out the design of the 

 testator for the education of orphan chil- 

 dren. In 1879 the charity was formally 

 established. The orphans must be the 

 children of parents residing (for a time 

 at least) in Heaton Norris, Reddish, or 

 Burnage, or in certain of the neighbouring 

 townships in Cheshire. No clergyman, 

 dissenting minister, or Roman Catholic 

 is eligible as governor ; the teaching is to 

 be * strictly moral, religious, and scrip- 

 tural, and unalterably based upon Protes- 

 tant principles.' The orphanage is in 

 Heaton Norris ; about 250 children are 

 assisted annually. 



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