BOWDON IN CHESHIRE

[adj05]

Thanks for that but I have a really slow mobile internet connection and Im having trouble opening the link.
Do you have any idea where I could go and see an old map in person or where I would find more information out about Spring Bank?
Adam

[mshrmh]

Adam - the tithe maps website is I think the best online for Cheshire old maps - perhaps a visit to a library?

Bowdon, Hale & Altrincham (Spring Bank seems to be at the junction of all three) now come under Trafford. Trafford Local Studies Library is in Sale & they have a collection of maps from the past as well as trades directories, some electoral rolls, local papers (film) and other local material.
http://www.trafford.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/Libraries/RecordsAndArchives-LocalStudies

Cheshire Records Office in Chester also has old maps & will probably also have some of this area.
http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/record_office.aspx

[stanmapstone]

This is Spring Bank in 1911.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

This is Springbank in 1911
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Stan

[Reiver]

Just a little bit to add.
Springbank in 1871 was in the parish of Bowdon.  Hale, Altrincham - and Bowdon, I think - were all townships in that parish. The maps given above show the area where it was.

Looking at the c1875 map on the Cheshire Tithe Map site it looks a little as though SptingBank took up the whole of the land fronting Ashley Road and bounded by Stamford Road and 'the road by the side of Culcheth Hall, nowadays a school. There is obviously a 'big house' in the middle.

Currently - and for some time, as LizzieW mentioned - there had been an open park area on that part of that land bordering Stamford Road and Ashley Road.  There have long been some houses on the corner - fronting Ashley Road on the other corner by the Culcheth Hall school.  In the middle I think will have been Springbank - the house? - which much more recently, as has been said, has been converted into, I think, retirement apartments.

Reiver

[adj05]

Thanks for all the help.
I am wondering if anybody could tell me from their knowledge and expertise how I would go about finding out who lived there at the time and who it actually belonged to?
Adam

[stanmapstone]

Thanks for all the help.
I am wondering if anybody could tell me from their knowledge and expertise how I would go about finding out who lived there at the time and who it actually belonged to?
Adam

You don't say who your ancestor is, but in the 1871 Census the occupier of  "Springbank" was a Joseph B. Forster, who was a Sugar Refiner, he and his wife had four children and two servants, a cook and a housemaid.
RG10/3682/82/76

Stan

[adj05]

Hi Stan
Im getting really confused here.
For the address spring bank I have the following information:
Head:George Ollier-age 44-birth year of 1827
Wife:Hannah Ollier- age 46- birth year of 1825
Son:John Ollier-age 22- birth year of 1849
Daughter:Sarah E Oliier-age 19- birth year of 1852
Son:Richard Ollier-age 17-birth year 1854
Son:George Ollier-age 13-birth year of 1858
Daughter:Mary H Ollier-age 11- birth year of 1860
Daughter:Martha J Ollier-age 9- birth year of 1862
Son:Ernest Ollier-age 6-birth year of 1865
Aunt:Elizabeth Spencer-age 64-born 1807

It gave the address as Sping Bank, Bowdon in the civil parish of Bowdon

[adj05]

Hi Stan
Im getting really confused here.
For the address spring bank I have the following information:
Head:George Ollier-age 44-birth year of 1827
Wife:Hannah Ollier- age 46- birth year of 1825
Son:John Ollier-age 22- birth year of 1849
Daughter:Sarah E Oliier-age 19- birth year of 1852
Son:Richard Ollier-age 17-birth year 1854
Son:George Ollier-age 13-birth year of 1858
Daughter:Mary H Ollier-age 11- birth year of 1860
Daughter:Martha J Ollier-age 9- birth year of 1862
Son:Ernest Ollier-age 6-birth year of 1865
Aunt:Elizabeth Spencer-age 64-born 1807

It gave the address as Sping Bank, Bowdon in the civil parish of Bowdon

I am getting my information from Findmypast.com

It says the following:

civil parish = bowdon
registration district = altrincham
county = cheshire
enumeration district = 12
RG number = RG10
Piece = 3684
Folio = 6
Page = 3