Notes for  Deeds and Wills 

for the Combs and Chapel area 


 

 1.

Henry Kirke, Chapel-en-le-Frith, The Capital of the Peak, nd but @1903, p42

 2.

Wm. Braylesford Bunting, Chapel-en-le-Frith, its history and its people, 1940 republished in computer format by Robert P Marchington, 2000 at www.marchington.org  p175

 3.

Wm. Braylesford Bunting, The parish church of St Thomas a Becket,Chapel-en-le-Frith,1225-1925, 1925 republished in computer format by Robert P Marchington, 2003 at www.marchington.org p vi.

 4.

Marguerite A. Life Bellhouse, The Story of Combs my Village, 1968 privately copied and republished 2006

 5.

Derbyshire Record Office (DRO) D5236/5/59

 6.

Bellhouse p31

 7.

Bellhouse p31

 8.

Appendix 1, item 5.

 9.

In 1697 a Francis Gaskell of Hanley purchased Ollerenshaw Hall (Bunting p107). [n.b.the spelling of Gaskill and Gaskell varies in the documents in appendix 1]. A family of Gaskell siblings lived on the Marsh Hall estate in the early eighteenth century (Richard Clift pers.comm.); in 1709 Alice Gaskell and Edmund Cherry were in possession of Bridgefield (Bunting 1940, p172)

 10.

Rainow History Group: Rainow Caught in Time 2006, p.86

 11.

Appendix 1 item 7.

 12.

 Will of William Gaskill, 1673 at www.disley.net/disley_wills   Possibly Peter Gaskill is also the man referred to by Henry Kirke of Eaves in 1705 as his nephew in Extract of so much of the 17th report of the Commissioners of Charities as relates to Chapel-en-le-Frith 1835

 13.

The International Genealogical Index has a Petrus Gaskill marrying Anna Booth in November 1684 in Glossop and Peter Geskell, son of John, marrying Anne Booth, daughter of John in Taxal on 27 November 1684.

 14.

 Estimated from field names in Appendix 1 item 2 as compared to field names in nineteenth century valuations of the estate

 15.

 Chatsworth Collection, Hardwick Papers (H) 266/23

 16.

 Appendix 1 item 8.

 17.

Chatsworth Collection, Hardwick Papers (H) 263/33

 18.

Appendix 1 item 12

 19.

H 263/33

 20.

Appendix 1 item 14

 21.

Appendix 1 item 15

 22.

Appendix 1 item 14

 23.

Chatsworth Collection, Peak Forest accounts for 1714 and 1715

 24.

Appendix 1 item 18

 25.

Elizabeth, like Mary, only signed the indenture by a mark and never married; Amy, who like Ann could sign, married Nicholas Cresswell of Blackbrook, ironmonger, on 7 October 1733

 26.

Appendix 1 item 19

 27.

Deed of 25 January 1730 

 28.

H58/6

 29.

H203/9

 30.

H203/8

 31.

H203/11

 32.

Bellhouse p39; Bunting 1940 p54 

 33.

Bunting 1925 pp 89,133

 34.

Appendix 1 item 26

 35.

H296/25

 36.

Appendix 1 item 22. If this document was indeed a sale of lands they reverted to Jasper’s grandson Samuel in 1766 on the death of his uncle Samuel

 37.

 H296/26

 38.

H296/7

 39.

H296/24

 40.

H202/13

 41.

Chris Heathcote: The History of Coalpithole Vein in Peak Forest and Chapel-en-le-Frith Liberties, Derbyshire. 1705-1880 in Mining History: The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society. Volume 16, No 5. The mine is noted as a small-medium operation by JH Riuewerts, Lead Mining in Derbyshire 2007

 42.

Chris Heathcote, pers.com.

 43.

Chris Heathcote, pers.com.

 44.

 Appendix 1 item 26

 45.

Vanessa S Doe (ed.) The Diary of James Clegg of Chapel-en-le-Frith 1708-55 part 2, 1979 p.467

 46.

Appendix 1 item 26

 47.

Handwritten extract from 1749 Chapel parish register made in 1827, in possession of the authors

 48.

Appendix 1 item 26

 49.

Appendix 1 item 26

 50.

Martha, who died in 1804 having married Paul Webster in 1783; Mary who died in 1780; Hannah who married into the Dixon family and Elizabeth who died in 1779 having married Thomas Roe in 1773

 51.

Appendix 1 item 26

 52.

Appendix 1 item 58

 53.

Bunting 1940, p260

 54.

Sotheby’s, Sporting and Marine Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New York Friday June 3, 1994

 55.

Derbyshire Family History Society The Memorial Inscriptions of the parish church of St Thomas Becket Chapel-en-le-Frith,1989

 56.

Extract of so much of the 17th report of the Commissioners of Charities as relates to Chapel-en-le-Frith 1835

 57.

Chatsworth Collection AS/1275

 58.

AS/1272. Some of the lands held included Chamber; a large sheep pasture on Loads; Upper barn; Wainhurst Farm; Lomas’s Farm; Beatungdale; Ferny Slack; Oxlow Pature; Prongle; Benty Piece; Holehose; Checkham Barn; the Great Pasture; Open Casteleton Close; Snelslow; Middle Hill; Rushup pasture

 59.

Arthur Young The Farmers Tour through the East of England, p214 on http:\\books.google.co.uk

 60.

Appendix 1 document 26

 61.

Appendix 1 item 59

 62.

Appendix 1 item 24

 63.

Bunting 1940 p167

 64.

Bellhouse p 71

 65.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dusk/chapel-ratebook/combs-edge

 66.

Appendix 1 item 28

 67.

Deed of 9 October 1827 in possession of Steve Jodrell

 68.

Chatsworth Collection, Map 3025

 69.

Chris Heathcote: A History and Gazetteer of the Mines in the Liberty  of Peak Forest, Derbyshire. 1605-1878 in Mining History: The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society. Volume 14, No 5. 

 70.

Chris Heathcote, pers.comm

 71.

DRO D239/E5466

 72.

Hutchinson: Tour through the High Peak of Derbyshire, 1809

 73.

John Farey: General view of the agriculture of Derbyshire, vol III, 1817, p15

 74.

Appendix 1 item 36

 75.

Appendix 1 item 34

 76.

His mother was Jane Woodroofe, was born in 1791. DRO D1038A/PO81 appears to be a receipt for maintenance. Nathan’s son, John Frith Woodroofe emigrated to USA in 1870. Gill Woodroofe Green, pers.comm.

 77.

Appendix 1 item 49

 78.

Chapel Tithe map 1847, DRO 2360/183a

 79.

 Estate map attached to appendix 1, item 41

 80.

Appendix 1 item 45

 81.

Appendix 1 item 37

 82.

Appendix 1 item 41

 83.

Appendix 1 item 44

 84.

Appendix 1 item 45

 85.

Mike Langham: Buxton :A People’s History 2001 p55

 86.

T Bergin et al. Salford: A City and its past

 87.

Bellhouse, p93

 88.

Appendix 1, item 47. One of the initial mortgagors, and both the mortgagors by 1881, were Broadhursts. Renshaw’s wife was a Broadhurst. 

 89.

Bulkeley Cresswell: William Eden Nesfield 1835-88:  An Impression in Architectural Review part 2 1897; RIBA Journal v10, 1903 pp396-400; RIBA Library - Drawing PB292/13

 90.

Appendix 1 item 51

 91.

Appendix 1 item 57

 92.

 Kelly: Post Office Directory of Derbyshire, 1908. Groves was a Tory MP for South Salford 1900-1906 and was chairman of the Manchester brewers Groves and Whitnall (Manchester and Salford at the close of the Nineteenth Century)

 93.

Appendix 1 item 53

 94.

Alan Virtue: Memoirs of a Derbyshire Hill Farmer 1976, p50

 95.

Appendix 1 item 57

 96.

Kelly: Post Office Directory of Derbysire, 1916

 97.

Richard Scott, pers.comm. The company was presumably Frederick W Scott, Atlas Steel Wire Rope Works of Reddish  - Stockport Advertiser History of Stockport

 98.

Richard Scott, pers.comm

 99.

Bunting 1940, p168

 100.

Geraldine Locke in WHOGA 2005/6

 101.

 Virtue 1976, p89

 102.

Manchester Evening News 9 August 2003

 103.

Appendix 1 item 57

 104.

Appendix 1 items 54 and 56

 105.

Country Life 6 November 1980

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