Cressage, Shropshire Family History Guide
Cressage is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Shropshire, created in 1844 from a chapelry in Cound Ancient Parish.
Parish church: Christ Church
Parish registers begin: 1722
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Adjacent Parishes
Cressage Parish Registers
Cressage Parish Registers 1605-1812 Shropshire Parish Registers Diocese of Lichfield V. 2 General Editor W. P. W. Phillimore. Privately printed for the Shropshire Parish Register Society 1901. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Historical Directory Transcriptions
Cressage Cassey Shropshire Directory 1875
Cressage is a parish and village, and station on the Severn Valley Railway, eight miles from Shrewsbury, and four from Much Wenlock, in the Southern division of the county, Condover hundred, Atcham union, Shrewsbury county court district, rural deanery of Condover, archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield, situated on the river Severn, and the Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth turnpike road. Christ Church is a stone building, was erected in the year 1841, at a cost of £1,400. The living is a rectory, yearly value £250, with glebe land, in the gift of the Rev. Henry Thursby Pelham, M.A. Here a Parochial school, built in 1858, with an endowment of 50s. annually, arising from land, with house attached. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1854. The charities are of the annual value of 30s. The Duke of Cleveland, K.G., who is lord of the manor, and Sir H. G. Harnage, Bart., are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; the subsoil gravely. The area is 1,900 acres, and the population in 1861 was 356; gross estimated rental, £2,886; rateable value, £2,689. The village is the birth place of Thomas Lodge, who settled in London as a grocer, accumulated great wealth, and rose to the civic honour of Lord Mayor in the year 1562.
Post Office, William Dorricut, postmaster. Letters through Shrewsbury arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4 10 p.m.
Buck Henry J., esq.
Burd Rev. Frederick, M.A
Buck Henry J., surgeon
Dorricott William, tailor and postmaster
Downes Alfred, Crown Inn
Edwards John, farmer, The Buildings
Harris Joseph, wheelwright & carpenter
Hill Aaron, shoe maker
Holmes William, Eagle Inn & farmer
James William, joiner
Jones Hugh, grocer
Morris Elizabeth, farmer
Mullard Edward, blacksmith and parish clerk
Pinkney John, manure manufacturer
Pinkney Joseph, farmer
Preece John, farmer
Tudor Joseph, butcher and farmer
Williams Robert, saddler and harness maker, and warfinger
Source: Edward Cassey & Co.’s History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Shropshire. Printed Shrewsbury 1875.
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CRESSAGE, a chapelry in Cound parish, Salop; on the river Severn; and on the Severn Valley railway, 4 miles NW by N of Much-Wenlock. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Shrewsbury. Rated property, £2,125. Pop., 356. Houses, 67. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £248. Patron, the Rev. H. T. Pelham. The church is modern; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Cressage. A township in the parish of Cound, and in the Condover division of the hundred of Condover, chapel to Cound, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Salop, and archdeaconry of Salop. It is holden in the presentation to Cound, but with most parochial rights. 8 ½ miles south-east of Shrewsbury
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Atcham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Condover
- Poor Law Union: Atcham
- Hundred: Condover
- Province: Canterbury