Cheddleton, Staffordshire Family History Guide

Cheddleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wetley Rocks, Rownall, Cunsall, Consall, Cheddleton and Rownall, Chadderton, Cellar Head, and Basford.

Parish church: St. Edward

Parish registers begin:

Cheddleton

* Parish registers: 1696
* Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676

Wetley Rocks

* Parish registers: 1834
* Bishop’s Transcripts: 1835

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Cheddleton

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Cheddleton, a township and a parish in Cheadle district, Stafford.

The township is conjoint with Rownall township, including part of Cellar-Head hamlet; lies on the Uttoxeter canal and the North Stafford railway, 2 ½ miles S of Leek; and has a station on the railway. Real property, £8,300. Pop., 1,802. Houses, 377.

The parish contains also the townships of Cunsall and Basford; and its post-town is Leek, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Acres, 9,080. Real property, £14,213. Pop., 2,050. Houses, 426. The property is subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160. Patron. The Rev. E. Powys. The church is old but good.

The p. curacy of Wetley-Rocks is a separate benefice.

There is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £21 from endowment; and other charities £8.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Cunsall

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Cunsall, a township, in the parish of Cheddleton, union of Cheadle, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 3 ¾ miles (N.N.W.) from Cheadle; containing 190 inhabitants. Two schools are supported by Mr. Leigh.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Wetley Rocks

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WETLEY-ROCKS, a chapelry in Cheddleton and Caverswall, parishes, Stafford; 2 miles SW of Cheddleton r. station, and 5 NW by N of Cheadle. It has a post-office under Stoke-on-Trent. Pop., 950. The property is subdivided. Wetley Abbey and Consall Hall are chief residences. Wetley Rocks proper are a hilly ridge 150 feet high, and ¾ mile long. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £70. Patrons, the Sneyd Family. The church is good; and there are a New Connexion Methodist chapel, and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Day Thomas; and Thomas Appleby; Cheddleton, Staffordshire, paper manufacturers, April 27, 1841.