A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of Turton, Walmsley, and Gorton." There is a 

 portrait of the founder in the Chetham Library ; " 

 and in 1853 a statue was erected in the cathedral as 

 a memorial of him,'° a stained glass window being 

 also placed there. 



The Chethams of Crumpsall were leaseholders under 

 the Prestwich family, until in 1622 James Chetham, 

 eldest son of Henry, purchased the holding." His 

 son George ultimately inherited not only the property 

 in Crumpsall, but the Clayton, Turton, and other 

 estates of his uncle Humphrey. These seem to have 

 descended like Turton," until the division in 1770, 

 when Crumpsall was given to Mary wife of Samuel 

 Clowes, and was bequeathed to her grandson John 

 Hilton." It was afterwards sold in parcels.*" 



George Clark, another benefactor of Manchester, 

 was a resident in Crumpsall." A branch of the Old- 

 ham family also had an estate." Bishop Oldham is 

 sometimes said to have been born there, but the con- 

 nexion of his family with the township began very 

 much later than his time.*^' 



In 1655 there were eighteen ratepayers in Crump- 

 sall, including George Chetham, esq., Thomas Percival, 

 ' the wife of Old Oldham,' Thomas Oldham, Robert, 

 Richard, and James Bowker, four Pendletons, &c. 

 The number of houses in 1774 was fifty-seven.*' 



Among the more recent landowners and residents 



of Crumpsall the Delaunays may be mentioned. 

 Angel Delaunay, from Rouen, in 1788 introduced 

 Turkey red dyeing into Crumpsall and Blackley, and 

 built up a great business. His sons acquired part of 

 William Marsden's estate in 18 19, later known as the 

 Cleveland estate. They built a bridge over the Irk 

 for their coach road from Blackley to Cheetham 

 Hill." 



A school was built in 1850, and licensed for the 

 worship of the Established Church." In 1859 

 St. Mary's was built, and rebuilt in 1875." There 

 is a mission church. 



The Wesleyan Methodists in 1 809 opened a preach- 

 ing room, which was replaced in 18 15 by a more 

 substantial building ; this was followed by a larger 

 one in 1837, repaired and enlarged in 1844. There 

 is a burial-ground attached." Another Wesleyan 

 chapel was built in Lower Crumpsall in 1838.*' There 

 is also a place of worship belonging to the United 

 Methodist Free church. 



MOSTON 



Mostun, 1247; Moston, 1275. 



The township of Moston lies on the north side of 

 the Morris Brook, which flows west to the Irk ; it 

 measures over 2 miles from east to west and has an 



"* Hi« will is printed in full; Life, Z28- 

 62. The private bequests include lands 

 in Bolton hy Bowland to his nephew 

 George Chetham [of Turton], to his 

 brother Ralph's children, and j^2,ooo to 

 his nephew Edward Chetham for the pur- 

 chase of lands. The inventory of his 

 goods at Clayton, Ordsall, and Turton 

 follows, 263-77 i ^ °°te on his books is 

 appended. The books he recommended 

 for his church libraries were * such as 

 Calvin's, Preston's, and Perkins' works ; 

 comments or annotations upon the Bible 

 or some parts thereof,' the choice being 

 left to Richard Johnson, Richard Hollin- 

 worth (former fellows of Manchester Col- 

 lege), and John Tilsley (Deane). 



®^ Reproduced as a frontispiece to the 

 Life, See also pp. 226, 227 ; Lanes, and 

 Cbes. Antiq. Soc. xxii, i88, where Bishop 

 Nicolson (1704) says it was * drawn at a 

 guess.' 



^^ Ibid. 224-6 ; a view is given. The 

 Chetham Society may also be regarded as 

 a memorial to him ; it was established in 

 1843. 



^7 Chetham Gen, 47 ; it consisted of a 

 messuage and fourteen closes of land. 



In 1478 Ellis Prestwich granted to 

 feoffees messuages and lands in Crumpsall 

 held by William Tetlow, Edward Chet- 

 ham, Hugh Chetham, Henry Siddall, and 

 Adam Pendleton, together with other 

 properties ; De TrafFord D. no. 89. 



Ralph Prestwich in 1444 had three 

 messuages, 90 acres of land, 12 acres of 

 meadow, and 6 acres of wood in Crump- 

 sall ; Final Cone, iii. III, Another 

 Ralph Prestwich about 1504 complained 

 that certain persons had broken into his 

 close at Crumpsall and stolen three pieces 

 of linen cloth ; Duchy Flead, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 41, 



James Chetham, who in 1631 com- 

 pounded for knighthood {^Misc. Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches. i, 215), was twice mar- 

 ried and had a numerous offspring ; the 

 principal were his sons George (of Clay- 

 ton and Turton) and Edward (of Smedley) ; 

 Chetham Gen. 47-9 j see also Ct, Leet Rec, 



iv, 134, where there is an abstract of his 

 will. 



" See the account of Turton. 



»' Chetham Gen. 60, 61 ; Booker, B/ac*- 

 ley, 203. James Hilton, the brother of 

 John, had Nuthurst. 



*" The following is Mr.Booker's account 

 (op. cit. 206): 'About this time [1775] 

 the hall and its adjacent lands had become 

 the property of John Gartside, esquire, who 

 some years later (in 1806) disposed of it 

 by sale to Thomas Blackwall, esquire, of 

 Manchester ; the estate thus transferred 

 being in extent about 60 statute acres. 

 . . . Mr. Hilton still continued to retain 

 the residue of the Crumpsall property de- 

 vised to him under the will of his grand- 

 mother and died seised thereof in the year 

 1814. By his will, dated 31 May 1814 

 (proved in the Prerogative Court of Can- 

 terbury 19 April 18 15), he gives and 

 devises to his nephew Sir John Richard 

 Hilton, knight, a lieutenant in the royal 

 navy, the third son of his brother James, 

 all his estate called Crumpsall. Sir John 

 Richard Hilton was born 27 December, 

 1785, and is described as of the city 

 of Chester. He appears to have com- 

 pleted the alienation of this portion 

 of his family inheritance by disposing of 

 the remainder of his estate in Crumpsall 

 to Edward Loyd, esquire, and George 

 Faulkner, esquire.' 



*^ Booker, op. cit. 211. 



George Clark, haberdasher, died 9 Jan. 

 1637-8, holding six burgages, five shops, 

 &c., in Manchester, and four messuages, 

 40 acres of land, &c., in Crumpsall. In 

 1636 he had settled his estate for the 

 relief of the poor of Manchester, one 

 moiety being reserved to his wife Alice 

 for her life. His nearest heir was Henry 

 son and heir of Henry Clark, brother of 

 John father of George ; Towneley MS. 

 C. 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 258; see also Funeral 

 Certs. (Chet. Soc). In 1631 he had paid 

 £io on refusing knighthood ; Misc. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 216. 



The deed founding his charity is printed 

 and an abstract of his will given in Manch. 



264 



Ct. Leet Rec, iii, 301-14. Accounts of 

 the estate may be seen in the Char. Com, 

 Rep, of 1826 [Rep. 16, pp. 138, &c.), and 

 in Booker, 211, 212. About a century 

 ago the land was eligible for building pur- 

 poses, and 88 acres were disposed of on 

 ground rents amounting to over jf i,ioo. 

 The present income of the charity from 

 lands in Crumpsall and Manchester is 

 ,^3,129; it is administered by the lord 

 mayor of Manchester. 



^^ See the account of Ancoats in Man- 

 chester. From the yisit. of 1 664 (p. 224) 

 it appears that Robert Oldham of Man- 

 chester, of the family of Bishop Oldham, 

 married Elizabeth daughter of Henry 

 Shepherd of Crumpsall ; he was eighty 

 years old in 1664. His sons Adam and 

 Thomas married daughters of Richard 

 Bowker of Crumpsall, and Thomas is 

 described as ' of Crumpsall.' ' Oldham's 

 tenement ' was in the part of the Reddish 

 estates purchased by William Marsden, 

 and in 1854 was in the hands of his 

 executors ; it was also known as the 

 Bongs Farm. A curious wall painting of 

 the time of Elizabeth was discovered in it; 

 and the Oldham arms, with R.O. 1662, 

 were also in the cottage ; see Booker, op. 

 cit. 197-200, where a view is given, and 

 Baker, Memorials of Oldham's Tenement, 

 in which are photographs of the paintin|^. 

 The building was taken down in 1864 to 

 make way for the workhouse. 



An Edward Shepherd, « late of Crump- 

 sall' (1651), had a messuage in Deansgate, 

 Manchester, which descended to his three 

 daughters ; Ct. Leet Rec. iv, 60. 



^^ See the deeds quoted under Ancoats 

 in Manchester. 



••' Booker, op. cit. 215. 



** Manch. City News, 1 900. 



« Booker, op. cit. 216 ; the building 

 was in Lower Crumpsall. St. Thomas's 

 Church there is within the boundaries of 

 Cheetham. 



<« The district was assigned in i86oj 

 Lond. Gaz. 30 Oct. 



■''' Booker, op. cit. 214, 21 c. 



« Ibid. 215. 



Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 



