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Richard Chorley on 2nd February 1690, granted a lease over a property, to James Ainscow, for the life of his son John Ainscow.
The property was "in the Eaves Lane in C. (Chorley) late Tootells, formerly Wrennowes, and anciently Wareing Woods".
The names Tootell, Wrennowe and Wareing are of families of note in the area, so it appears the area took on the names of its occupants at different times.
The land was 9 acres, 1 rood, 24 perches.  Today being 3.8 hectares.

Question 1:  Do I assume that this was just an area of land that was being leased for agriculture ?  And whatever this means : the "Boones" were "shearing x 2" and "hens x 2".

Question 2: Whilst the lease was undertaken by James Ainscow for the life of his son John, there are two other people mentioned - "Ailese daughter of John Waring and Thomas Gillibrand son of Robert Gill.: soe long live".  I don't know why James Ainscow would be adding these extra people to the lease.  As it turned out, the lease lasted until 1704 when John Ainscow died.

Given that my Ainscow roots have been traced back to Chorley in this era, I was just curious as to what they were up to.  They seem to have been a family of some means, being involved in this lease, being Church Wardens, able to at least write their name, and to leave wills.

Cheers - Lindsay / Australia

I am trying to put together my Williams ancestry and whilst I can find tantalising snippets about the Williams family of clock and watch makers of Trecastle (and Brecon and Newport), I cant quite work out the earlier generations of the family.
If anyone has a copy of the book about the families in the  Llywel area "Roots and Branches" by T.O.Evans, you might let me know if there is anything of this family, to justify me getting a copy for myself.
The first mention of the family I find is a WILLIAM GRIFFITH a clockmaker - who was supposedly from Devynock. I know that he was the son of GRIFFITH DAVID (patronymic).
William Griffith was buried at St David's, Llywel : "William Griffith David of Ynnsfain Trayan-Glaes clock maker was buried March ye 13th 1786".
There were supposedly 4 sons : 1) William, 2) Rees, 3) Griffith and 4) John.
1) William Williams buried Llywel 1827 aged 92 (1735).
I dont know anything more about William Williams.
2) Rees Williams buried Llywel 1827 aged 90 (1737).
My 5 x ggrandfather.  I know more of him and his family history.
3) Griffith Williams.
Active in Newport until 1795.  I assume that is his year of death - no more info, apart from finding a photo of one of his clocks made in Newport in 1775.
4) John Williams buried Llanfihangel Nant Bran 1822 aged 81 (1741).
If I have the right person: he lived at Berthddu  or Berth-ddu in Ysclydach area of the Llywel parish and I have worked out a bit of his history.

I know of the early Williams connection to the property known as Ynysfain / Ynysfaen, near Cwmwysg in Traean-glas area of Llywel parish.

A number of descendants of this family were also clock and / or watch makers.

I have scoured the Llywel parish register looking for baptisms for the four sons of William Griffith - patronymic in mind - to no avail.  And also Devynock (Defynnog).  Any clues ?

Regards : Lins / South Australia.

Since posting : I have found in the Jones - History of Brecknock (Vol II Part II) - a reference to a William Griffiths in the section on Devynock.  Is he the same William Griffith mentioned above ?  I am not sure of the year that the text is written by Theophilus Jones, in relation to the date of death of my William Griffith in 1786.

Page 678 : "The above Rees Williams was sheriff of Breconshire in 1611 and was the ancestor of William Griffiths, late of Blancrai, now living near Devynock village".

Page 678 : when describing the interior of Devynock church -  "Above, on the wall, is a small tablet to the memory of two children of the before named William Griffiths ~ ~ ~ ".

Tracing my Gleave ancestry has brought me to William Gleave of Altrincham - who married Elizabeth Hardy in 1698 - and Grace Bury in 1710.
Children were Mary Gleave 1700, William Gleave 1701, and John Gleave 1703.
I have a possible birth for William Gleave in 1666 to father John Gleave.  And a marriage of a John Gleave in 1652 to Elizabeth Jones.

All family records in this era have been at Bowdon.  Getting further back using the Bowdon images at Findmypast is problematic - as they are not exactly easy to read - as evidenced by the guesswork in the transcriptions.

This Gleave clan is usually seen in occupations like shoemaker, gardener, husbandman, yeoman.

Linking the Altrincham Gleave branch to the Gleave ancestry of High Leigh is a bit of a stretch - which was one aspiration - but to date - no link has been established.

I have a copy of Peggy Sumner's book - The Story of the Gleaves of High Leigh - but no obvious mention of Altrincham jumps out.

The point of this post, is to see if there are other researchers for GLEAVE of Altrincham around this period or before.

Lindsay / South Australia.

My Great Grandfather RICHARD PARRY died in Great Yarmouth on 31 July 1881 - at the home of his Brother-In-Law, Robert W Main - Apollo Walk.

He was visiting Yarmouth at the time - with his wife and son.

His date of birth : 1821 in Wrexham, Wales.  He was a cabinet maker and in 1881 his address was 5 St Georges Road, St Pancras, London.

I now find that LDS has a date for a burial of a Richard Parry at Yarmouth on 5 August 1881.  The film number 1526490 covers 3 churches : Church of England. St. Nicholas' Church (Yarmouth), Church of England. St. Peter's Church (Yarmouth), Church of England. St. Andrew's Church (Yarmouth).

I would really appreciate any lookup assistance to identify the burial location + anything else that might come up in that lookup.
I have the GRO death cert  if that is of any assistance.

Thanks and regards.     Lindsay / Adelaide. South Australia.