Ketley, Shropshire Family History Guide
Status: Ecclesiastical Parish
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1838
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include:
Table of Contents
Parishes adjacent to Ketley
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KETLEY, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Wellington parish, Salop. The village stands adjacent to the Wellington and Severn Junction railway, 2 miles ESE of Wellington; is a large place, inhabited chiefly by miners; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wellington, Salop. The township includes the village; extends considerably into the country; contains many ironstone and coal pits, and several blast furnaces for iron; and has a canal and tram railway to Oaken-Gates pits, 1½ mile long, with a fall of 73 feet, formed in 1788 by Reynolds. The pop., in 1841, was 2,642; but at the two subsequent decades, was returned with the parish. The chapelry has a church of 1837, and dates from that period, but does not seem to have definite limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £158. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church was built at the Duke of Sutherland’s expense; is a neat cruciform structure, in the pointed style; and stands on an eminence, commanding extensive views over the surrounding plains, to the Wreken and the Welsh mountains.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Gregory Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Ketley. A township in the parish of Wellington, and in the Wellington division of the hundred of Bradford, South. 1 mile south-east of Wellington. The residence of John Bucknell, Esq., and Henry Williams, Esq.
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
Directories
Ketley Cassey Shropshire Directory 1875
Ketley is an ecclesiastical parish, with the hamlets of Beveley, Mossey Green, Potter’s Bank, Red Lake, and the The Rock, twelve miles from Shrewsbury, and 137 ½ from London, in the northern division of the county, Wellington division of South Bradford hundred, Wellington union, and diocese of Lichfield, situate on the turnpike road leading from London to Holyhead. A considerable portion of the township of Hadley is commonly called Ketley, but does not properly belong to Ketley, although the occupiers are here given under this township. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, at Red Lake, is a cruciform structure. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £160, with residence and 10 ½ acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Duke of Sutherland. The Wesleyans have a place of worship here. The principal minerals here are ironstone, coal, and fire-clay. The Duke of Sutherland is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various; the subsoil is clay. The area is 774 acres.
Beveley is a small hamlet, adjoining Ketley, partly in Wellington parish and partly in Wombridge.
Ketley Bank is a hamlet, partly in Ketley township.
Mossey Green, Potter’s Bank, Red Lake, and The Rock, are in this ecclesiastical district.
Post Office. – John Day, receiver. Letters arrive from Wellington at 6 a.m.; dispatched at 6 30 p.m.
Great Western Railway (Severn Junction), Thomas Littlehales, station master.
Ketley
Stoneham Rev. Thompson, M.A.
Williams John, esq., Ketley hill
Adams George, cabinet maker
Brown John, White Lion Inn
Burroughs George, rope maker
Davies Joseph, provision dealer, Ketley brook
Ford James, grocer, Ketley sand
Groves William, butcher, Ketley sand
Harley George, blacksmith
Jones Jeffery, farmer
Ketley Iron Company (John Williams, manager)
Lamon William, Seven Stars Inn
Light William, blacksmith, The Rock
Lloyd John, shoe maker
Meredith William, blacksmith
Millington John, farmer
Morris Mary, Horseshoes Inn
Padmore William, greengrocer
Palin Joseph, butcher
Parker Henry, farmer, The Rock
Price Aaron Hughes, grocer
Ravenscroft William, tailor
Stanworth Judith, shopkeeper
Vaughan Joseph, shopkeeper, Manerley lane
Vaughan William, shopkeeper and charter master, Clares lane
Beveley
Barber Thomas, Compass Inn
Russell Thomas, shopkeeper
Mossey Green
M’Knight George, esq
Cadman Sarah, shopkeeper
Lewis William S. and Co., iron fencing and hurdle makers
M’Knight George, surgeon
Potter’s Bank
Gallier Thomas, beer retailer & butcher
Rigby Thomas, shopkeeper
Scarrott Emmanuel, carpenter
Red Lake
Pitchford Edwin, shopkeeper
Pritchard Joseph, school
Vaughan William, Red Lion Inn
Source: Edward Cassey & Co.’s History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Shropshire. Printed Shrewsbury 1875.
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.
Evans George, Ketley, Salop, grocer and tea dealer, Jan. 11, 1831.
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Wellington (Shropshire)
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Wellington
- Poor Law Union: Wellington
- Hundred: South Bradford
- Province: Canterbury