SALFORD HUNDRED 



ECCLES 



Wheelock, who in 1632 sold it to Sir Cecil Traf- 

 ford.'^ It has since descended like Stretford, and 

 was till recently the chief residence of the TrafFord 

 family, taking the name of TrafFord Park from them. 

 They appear to have resided here from the beginning 

 of the 1 8th century."* 



Traiford Hall was originally erected in the middle 

 of the 1 6th century, but the modern classic building 

 was built in 1762 by John Trafford, who is said to 

 have removed the front of the older building for this 

 purpose. The brick gabled wing on the north-west 

 is supposed to belong to the original house, but is 

 probably a later refacing and rebuilding. In James's 

 view (1825) the four lower gables next to the house 

 only are shown, the building farther north apparently 

 having been erected since that date. The 1 8th-century 

 mansion is a plain stuccoed two-story classic building 

 with four engaged columns and pediment in the front 

 or south elevation. A modern stuccoed wing runs 

 northward on the east side of the house, parallel with 

 the brick wing already mentioned. The house is 

 now used as the head quarters of the Manchester Golf 

 Club. 



The Barton landowners contributing to the subsidy 

 of 1622 were — Thomas Charnock, George Legh, 

 Katherine Brereton, Dorothy Liversage, Ralph Ains- 

 worth, — Hope, Richard Worsley, John Valentine, 

 Edmund Lathom, James Crompton, and John Bent.'" 



The Sorocolds of Barton recorded a pedigree in 

 1665.'" 



The land tax returns of 1797 preserved at Preston 

 provide a long list of landowners, arranged under these 

 divisions : — Barton with Winton, Eccles, Monton, 

 and Swinton ; farther side of water, including Urms- 

 ton and Davyhulme ; Irlam and Cadishead. The 

 principal estates were those of the Duke of Bridge- 

 water, John TrafFord, — Willis, — Lee, William 

 Turner, John Page, Henry Norris, and Robert 

 Barker.*" 



The parish church has been described above. In 

 recent times a number of new churches have been 

 consecrated to the service of the established religion. 

 At Eccles, St. Andrew's was built in 1879,'" and at 

 Barton, St. Catherine's, built in 1843,"' was enlarged 

 in 1893 ; the patronage of these churches is vested in 



five trustees. At Patricroft is Christ Church, built in 

 1868 ;™ the Bishop of Manchester is patron ; under 

 it is St. Michael's Mission-room, Monton. At Winton 

 is St. Mary Magdalen's. St. John the Baptist's, 

 Irlam,"' was built in 1866, and has a mission-room at 

 Cadishead ; the patronage is in the hands of five 

 trustees. To St. Mary the Virgin's, Davyhulme,"' 

 built in 1 890, the Bishop of Manchester and Mr. J. B. 

 Norreys Entwisle present alternately. 



The Presbyterian Church of England has a con- 

 gregation at Eccles, founded in 1902. 



The Wesleyans originated with the preaching of 

 Wesley himself, who appeared at Davyhulme in 1 747. 

 They now have churches at Barton, Barton Moss, 

 Monton, Cadishead and Davyhulme, Eccles, Patri- 

 croft and Irlam ; '" the Primitive Methodists at 

 Eccles, Barton, and Davyhulme ; the United Free 

 Methodists at Eccles, Winton, and Patricroft ; and 

 the New Connexion at Eccles. 



The Baptists have a church at Eccles. 



The Congregationalists at Patricroft and Eccles 

 trace their rise to the preaching begun in 1796 in a 

 barn at the former place ; a chapel was erected in 

 1800, and a church formed four years later. A new 

 and larger chapel was built in 1870. Efforts were 

 made in 1 8 1 o and later to establish services in Eccles, 

 but failed ; a fresh start was made in 1857, and the 

 present church, an offshoot of Hope Chapel, Salford, 

 was opened in i860.'" At Cadishead services were 

 begun in a small shed in 1875 » ^^^ present school 

 chapel was opened in 1883.'^' 



The Society of Friends have a meeting-place at 

 Eccles.'^' 



There is an interesting Unitarian Church at 

 Monton. Edmund Jones, the vicar of Eccles, ejected 

 in i66z, continued to preach in the neighbourhood. 

 A Nonconformist congregation also met at Monks' 

 Hall for some time ; but in 1697 a chapel was built 

 at Monton. The building was in 1715 wrecked by 

 a ' Church and King ' mob, led by Thomas Siddall, 

 the Manchester Jacobite, but it was repaired by th? 

 Government.'" The congregation numbered 612, 

 of whom 29 were county voters."' It was rebuilt in 

 1802, and replaced by the present church in 1875. 

 The usual change of doctrine took place during the 



Thomas Massey, father of the Thomas 

 who died in 1590, had granted a third of 

 the manor as dower to Dorothy, widow 

 of his elder brother John, and she was 

 still living at Elton in Cheshire ; Thomas 

 the son assigned to Katherine widow of 

 Thomas a third part of his two-thirds of 

 the manor, and she was living at Whittles- 

 wick ; Thomas himself married Jane 

 daughter of Thomas Lancaster, and she 

 too was living at Whittleswick when the 

 inquisition was taken, 28 Sept. 1591. 

 Dorothy, the daughter and heir, was nine 

 months old ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 XV, 31. A later inquisition is extant 

 (ivii, 85), the jurors altering the finding 

 by stating that Adam de Prestwich died 

 at Barton, Henry being his son and heir, 

 and that Whittleswick was held of the 

 queen by the tenth part of a knight's 

 fee. 



In 1500 William Massey of Whittles- 

 wick, being seventy years of age, was ex- 

 cused from serving on assizes ; Towneley 

 MS. CC (Chet. Lib.), no. 689. 



Thomas, father of the last Thomas 

 Massey, died at the end of 1576, his son 



being then a minor ; Mancb, Ct, Leet 

 Rcc. i, 184. For his will see ff^ilh (Chet. 

 Soc, new scr.), i, 222. 



Jane, the widow of the son, afterwards 

 married William Moreton of Moreton in 

 Cheshire. 



'*' The deeds are printed (from Raines 

 MS. XXV.) in H. T. Crofton's Stretford 

 (Chet. Soc), iii, 272, &c. See also Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 121, no. 15. 

 The manor is mentioned in later Trafford 

 settlements; e.g. 1654 and 1718 ; ibid, 

 bdles. 156, m. 194; 282, m. 99. 



For the Liversages sec Ormerod, Ches. 

 (ed. Helsby), iii, 121. Dorothy afterwards 

 married Thomas Balgay of Hope in 

 Derbyshire ; Journ, of Derbys. Arch. Soc, 

 vi, 23. 



!*• Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. vi, 228. 



1*° Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



i. 153- 



IM Dugdale, yisit. 276. 



'^ Land tax returns. 



las For district assigned see Lond. Gaz. 

 25 May 1880. 



i» Ibid. I Mar. 1867 ; see also End. 

 Char. Rep. for Eccles, 1904, p. 23. 



375 



^^'^ For district, Lond, Gaz. 19 Mar. 

 1869. 



1" Ibid. I Jan. 1867. A site for a 

 church and cemetery was set apart in 

 1 841 b/ John and Mary Greaves of 

 Irlam, but being found unsuitable another 

 site of the same area was given in 1864, 

 and the church built on it. For Endow- 

 ment see End. Char. Rep. 1904, 28-31. 



1S2 The services were held in a school 

 given in 1S80 ; the church was consecrated 

 23 June 1890. For endowments, &c., see 

 End. Char. Rep. Eccles, 1904, p. 23. 



188 For Trinity Wesleyan Church, 

 Patricroft, see ibid. 22. For Cadishead, ibid. 

 31. The Wesleyan chapel at Davyhulme 

 dates from 1779 ; a new church was 

 opened in 1905. 



^^'* B. Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf, v, 

 11-16. Joseph Rawson, a muslin manu- 

 facturer of Manchester, who died in 1824, 

 had workmen at Patricroft and so began 

 the preaching there. 



13* Ibid. 79. 



136 It was built in 1877. 



1^7 Pal. Note Bk. ii, 240, 242. 



1^ O. Heywood, Diaries^ iv, 310. 



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