Cheadle Staffordshire Family History Guide

Cheadle is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Staffordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Above Park, Brookistone, Huntley, Cheadle Mill, and Cheadle Grange.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1567

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

CHEADLE, a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Stafford. The town stands in a valley, environed by high hills, near the river Tean and the Uttoxeter canal, 3 miles W by S of Oakamoor r. station, and 9 ESE of Stoke-upon-Trent.

It has a post-office under Stafford, a banking-office, three chief inns, a parish church, four dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic church, a Free school, a national school, and a workhouse; and is a seat of petty sessions, and a polling-place.

The parish church was built in 1837; is in the decorated English style; and has a fine stained glass eastern window. The Roman Catholic church was built in 1843-6, by the Earl of Shrewsbury, after designs by Pugin, at a cost of about £60,000; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave, aisles, and chapels, with a fine western tower and spire, 200 feet high.

Markets are held on Fridays; and fairs on 7 Jan., 25 March, Holy Thursday, 4 July, 21 Aug., and 18 Oct. Tape-making, malting, rope-making, and leather-dressing, are carried on. Pop., 3,191. Houses, 701.

The parish includes also the hamlets of Freehay, Cheadle-Grange, Cheadle-Mill, Brookistone, Huntley, and part of Oakamoor. Acres, 6,701. Real property, £18,696; of which £1,872 are in mines. Pop., 4,803. Houses, 1,034. The property is much subdivided. Coal and iron-stone abound. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £438. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The p. curacies of Freehay and Oakamoor are separate benefices. Charities, £63.

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.

Baguall Sampson, Cheadle, Staffordshire, grocer & ironmonger, Dec. 3, 1839.

Heath William, Cheadle, Staffordshire, grocer, April 30, 1822.

Johnson Mary; & Wm. Johnson; Cheadle,Staffordsh., grocers, June 14, 1842.

Mason George, Cheadle, Staffordshire, horse dealer and printer, Nov. 28, 1828.

Snape William, Cheadle, Staffordshire, grocer, July 13, 1822.

Suffolk Thomas, Cheadle, Staffordshire, innkeeper, March 23. 1827.

Walters Thomas, jun., Cheadle, Staffordshire, innkeeper, Dec. 29, 1829.

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Online School Records

School records are a primary source for genealogists. The two types of records that are commonly available are admission registers and log books.

The admission registers of schools may be available from the 1870s, but more frequently from 1902. Usually shown under the date of entry, is the child’s name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, may also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving.

For immigrant children the name of the previous school may uniquely provide the pupil’s exact place of origin.

These admission registers may enable the brothers and sisters of a pupil to be identified in a way that, with frequent names, would be difficult if not impossible from the civil registration records.

The log book may contain comments on the attendance of pupils, behaviour, discipline, the curriculum, attendance of teachers and absence for sickness etc., and the effect of epidemics and seasonal work on attendance. The names of individual pupils only occasionally appear in log books. The names and status of the teachers were recorded at the annual inspection, with a summary of the inspector’s report.

The following school records are available from Findmypast

Cheadle Freehay, St. Chad’s Church Of England School 1899 to 1913 Admissions