| 1 |
The present township has only 3,139
acres, including 41 of inland water;
Census Rep. 1901. |
| 2 |
J. Butterworth, Bury (ed. 1902), 22. |
| 3 |
Baines, Lancs. (ed. 1836), ii, 677. |
| 4 |
Barton, Bury, 46–8. |
| 5 |
Watkins, Rom. Lancs. 243; Taylor,
Lancs. Crosses, 467. |
| 6 |
Subs. R. bdle. 250, no. 9, Lancs. |
| 6 |
a He had much opposition, and was so
embarrassed by the lawsuits he had to
engage in against those who infringed his
patents, that at last he took refuge in
France. It is related that on one occasion, when his house was gutted by the
mob, he escaped by being carried out of
Bury in a wool sheet. His son Robert
invented the drop-box in 1759. See a
statement of the case by Thomas Sutcliffe,
a descendant of John Kay, in his Exposition of Facts, 1843, and Crusoniana; also
Dict. Nat. Biog. A monument to John
Kay was erected in Bury in 1908. |
| 7 |
Under the Divided Parishes Act,
1882, the detached part called Cobhouse
Farm was transferred from Walmersley to
Birtle, within which it lay. In 1894 the
township was extended to include part of
Birtle-with-Bamford, by Local Govt. Bd.
Order 31671. |
| 8 |
In 1289 Matthew de Walmersley
claimed against Roger son of Robert de
Walmersley the moiety of an oxgang in
Walmersley in Bury; De Banco R. 80,
m. 201.
Robert de Walmersley was a juror in
1300; Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs,
and Ches.), i, 305. Roger de Walmersley
contributed to the subsidy of 1332, as an
inhabitant of Bury; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec.
Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 33. In 1365
there was a dispute as to the guardianship
of the heir of Henry de Walmerslcy between Sir Roger de Pilkington and John
de Radcliffe, lord and rector respectively
of Bury; De Banco R. 419, m. 33 d.
In 1587 Roger Walmersley unsuccessfully claimed four messuages, a fullingmill, 60 acres of land, &c., in Bury, as
descendant of Roger son of Roger de
Walmersley, who was seised, as he alleged,
in the time of Richard II. He proffered
the following pedigree: Roger—s. Simon
s.p.—bro. Henry—s. Roger—s. Roger—s.
John—s. Roger—s. Roger, the plaintiff;
Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 260, m. 6. |
| 9 |
Some charters preserved by Kuerden
(iii, B, 17) seem to refer to this estate; by
one of them Adam de Bury granted to
Henry son of Gilbert de Redvales an acre
within 'Gobbetris,' by 'Pedeksdene'
Brook, with all easements in Walmersley
and 'Kobholris.'
William son of Roger Kay of 'Cobholleres' was in 1346 charged with having
cut down John del Holt's trees in Bury;
De Banco R. 346, m. 113; R. 347, m.
231. In 1360 John del Holt the elder
was plaintiff respecting an assart at 'Pigkisdene' in Bury, now Pigsden in Walmersley; Assize R. 450, m. 1. Ralph
Holt in 1441 claimed two messuages, 60
acres, &c., in Bury and Middleton against
Thomas son of William Kay and others;
Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 3, m. 14.
A settlement of the estate of Thomas
Kay in Walmersley was made in 1586 by
himself, his wife Anne, Richard Kay,
Charles Holt, and Mary his wife; it contained three messuages, a water-mill, 18
acres, &c.; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F.
bdle. 48, m. 216. The estate of Robert
Kay, consisting of ten messuages, a mill,
60 acres of land, &c., seems to have
been purchased by Edward Rawstorne in
1582; ibid. bdle. 44, m. 160.
Some deeds of the Kays of Cobbas or
Cobhouse, as it is now spelt, are copied in
Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxi, 411, &c.,
with a pedigree reaching down to 1858.
Captain William Kay of Cobhouse took
part in the defence of Lathom at both
sieges (Civil War Tracts [Chet. Soc.],
169, 212); his sword and dagger are
in possession of descendants at present.
Stones in the house bore the inscriptions:
In the same volume of Raines MSS.
will be found extracts from the journals
of Richard Kay of Baldingstone, near
Cobhouse, of the early 18th century;
pp. 430–449. |
| 10 |
Thomas Rothwell in 1578 purchased
a messuage, &c., in Walmersley from
Ralph Nuttall; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F.
bdle. 40, m. 71. Giles Rothwell, who
died 17 March 1630–1, held a messuage
and lands in Walmersley of the Earl of
Derby, as of his manor of Bury; Thomas,
the son and heir, was twenty-two years
of age; Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 {Chet.
Lib.), fol. 1073. |
| 11 |
Thomas Wood and Joan his wife in
1552 acquired a messuage, &c., from
Richard Lache, clerk; Pal. of Lanc. Feet
of F. bdle. 14, m. 66. Henry Wood
died 28 Feb. 1625–6, holding a messuage
in Bank Lane in Walmersley of the Earl
of Derby; Thomas, the son and heir, was
only five years of age, but by his will the
estate was left to a son Henry for life,
after the death of the testator's brother,
John Wood, he paying 20s. to the heirs;
Towneley MS. C, 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), fol.
1293. |
| 12 |
Joan daughter of Roger Eleteson of
Shipwalbottom in 1351 claimed against
Thomas Johnson of the same a messuage,
20 acres of land, and 10 acres in Bury—
otherwise in the place called Shipwalbottom in the hamlet of Walmersley in
the town of Bury; she being daughter
and heir of Roger son of Richard, brother
of Adam de Shipwalbottom (possessor in
the time of Edw. II), whose son Richard
had died without issue. The defendant
held by a grant from one Henry de Stock,
who received from Richard, the plaintiff's
grandfather; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R.
1, m. 3d.
Twelve years later Joan prosecuted the
same claim against Margaret widow of
William de Kirkhagh; De Banco R. 415,
m. 205 d.
The estate appears soon afterwards to
have descended to the Wolstenholme
family; see Fishwick, Rochdale, 526.
Early in 1507 it was sold by James son
and heir of John Wolstenholme, Joan his
wife, and Nicholas Wolstenholme, to
Thomas Hesketh (of Rufford); Pal. of
Lanc. Plea R. 103, m. 3. It occurs, as a
messuage and lands in Walmersley, in the
Hesketh inquisitions, without notice of
the tenure; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. v,
no. 16; vii, no. 14; and was in 1555
sold by Sir Thomas Hesketh and Alice
his wife to Elizabeth Nuttall, widow;
Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 16, m. 131.
Thomas Jones andThurstan Rawstorne
in 1577 had a suit with Ralph Nuttall
respecting Shipwalbottom in Walmersley;
Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), iii, 56.
From the Bury registers it appears that
a family named Kay lived at Shipwalbottom in the first half of the 17th
century. |
| 13 |
Alexander de Bury, in the latter part
of the reign of Henry III, granted to
Nicholas de Golynrode all his land in the
hamlet of Walmersley, the bounds on
three sides being a brook, the great water
of Irwell, and Cowtelaw syke, at a rent of
18d. at the feast of St. Oswald; Ormerod,
Parentalia, 43.
John son of Nicholas Gollin of Gollinrod in 1491 sold the estate to Henry son
of Richard Nuttall of Nuttall in Tottington; ibid. 41. In the work referred to
the descent of the estate is traced as
follows: Henry Nuttall—s. George—s.
Henry, s.p.—bro. Christopher—s. George,
d. 1617—s. George, d. 1637—s. Richard,
d. 1675–6—dau. and heir Susanna wife of
Joshua Crompton of the Old Hall in
Pilkington. As late as 1559 Ralph, the
heir of John Gollin, claimed a messuage,
&c., in Bury against George Nuttall and
Roger Holt; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.),
ii, 212.
George Nuttall, murdered in March
1636–7 by Thomas Rothwell, held his
tenement of the Earl of Derby as lord of
Bury by a rent of 18d.; Richard, his son
and heir, was twenty-five years of age;
Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. xxx, no. 94,
and Bury Reg.
Susanna Crompton died in 1716, and
her daughter Hester, wife of Samuel
Wareing, succeeded to Gollinrod; then
came the Nangreaves of Netherton in Chester, issue of Anne, eldest daughter and
co-heir of Hester. 'After their extinction by the death of Col. S. W. Nangreave
in 1815,' Gollinrod and Sedger hey
'passed to the illegitimate issue of his
eldest brother, and were sold in parcels,
except a small part, which passed under
the will of Col. Nangreave to his natural
daughter, whose descendants still (1851)
possess it. The remains of the mansion
have been destroyed'; Ormerod, op. cit.
44, referring to the Gollinrod charters,
then 'in possession of the trustees of the
late Mrs. Edward Mangin of Bath, natural
daughter of Col. Nangreave.' |
| 14 |
Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc.
Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 203–6. Abraham
Nabb of Walmersley had made a settlement of his lands in 1638, just before his
death, and they were held by his trustees
for the benefit of his son Oliver and other
uses, but seized by the Parliamentary
authorities about 1643 and again in 1645,
on the ground that Oliver had joined the
Royal forces. This was denied; and it
was said that he had fought for the Parliament 'at the last invasion into Scotland' (1652). He was a butcher. George
Battersby, a tenant, was also concerned in
the sequestration; ibid. i, 153. |
| 15 |
A deafforestation grant was made in
1225 to John de Mara for Adam de
Bury; Cal.Pat. 1216–25, p. 576.
In 1227 Adam de Bury claimed
200 acres of land and a mill, with the
appurtenances, in Shuttleworth, against
John de la Mare, in right of descent; and
John acknowledged the moiety of the
land, &c., claimed to be Adam's right, to
wit, a moiety of the whole demesne,
wheresoever it lay versus umbram, at the
rent of 12d. Those who had been enfeoffed by John must perform a moiety of
the due service to Adam and a moiety to
John; Final Conc. i, 49.
In 1246 Adam de Bury and Roger de
Shuttleworth were convicted of having disseised Robert de Byron of his common of
pasture in Shuttleworth, by approving
30 acres of pasture; Assize R. 404, m. 2. |
| 16 |
De Lacy Inq. (Chet. Soc), 19.
Shuttleworth and Shipperbottom were
particularly named in the grant of the
Pilkington manors to the Earl of Derby
in 1489. |
| 17 |
Geoffrey de Denton [? Foxdenton]
in 1241 acknowledged Roger de Shuttleworth to be a freeman, for which he
received 20 marks; Final Conc. i, 80.
John de Rawstorne (Routhesthorn) in
1292 claimed certain lands in Bury against
Richard de Shuttleworth and against Eva
widow of Roger de Shuttleworth, but was
nonsuited; Assize R. 408, m. 33. The
same property apparently was in dispute
in 1343, when John son of Richard de
Rawstorne held a messuage and ploughland in Bury which his father had had
from John de Rawstorne the elder, and
which he said was only 5 acres of landThe claimant was Agnes de Shuttleworth,
who stated that she had been seised in the
time of Edward I; De Banco R. 336,
m. 418 d.
Margery daughter of Richard de Radcliffe, Roger de Shuttleworth, and Roger
his son, in 1334 complained of a disseisin
with force and arms by Robert de Horn
cliffe, Robert del Ewood, and others, and
the sheriff was ordered to take them.
Afterwards the parties made fine; Coram
Rege R. 297, m. 6; R. 298, Rex, m. 1 d.
A partition of 10 acres of wood, &c.,
between Alice widow of Roger de Pilkington and Roger de Shuttleworth and Roger
his son was made in 1348; De Banco R.
354, m. 3 d.
In 1408 Hugh son of Roger, son of
Roger de Shuttleworth of Bury, was an
outlaw, unjustly, as he alleged; Towneley
MS. RR, no. 1545.
Agnes widow of John de Bradshagh
and John their son released in 1427 to
Ellen de Shuttleworth and Robert de
Radcliffe her son all their messuages, &c.,
in a place called Questondene in Bury;
Ct. of Wards, Deeds and Evidences, box
153, no. 7.
In 1462 William Shuttleworth made
a settlement of his lands in Bury, and a
portion was granted to Peter his son and
Margaret the wife of Peter; and in 1481
Margaret, as widow, released to Sir Thomas
Pilkington all her right in the lands which
had belonged to Peter Shuttleworth, grandfather of her late husband; Dods. MS.
cxlii, rol. 164, 165. |
| 18 |
Isabel widow of John Leigh of Shuttleworth is named in 1425–6; Final Conc.
iii, 124. This may refer to the Shuttleworth in Hapton, but there were in the
16th century Leighs who had land in
Bury; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 52,
m. 126; 57, m. 50. |
| 19 |
Land-tax returns at Preston. |
| 20 |
Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), iii, 343. |
| 21 |
Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.),
i, 216. |
| 22 |
The old church was 'a neat stone
structure,' with chancel, nave, and low
square tower, in which was a clock;
Barton, Bury, 244. |
| 23 |
A district was formed in 1845; Land.
Gaz. 26 Aug. |
| 24 |
A full account of its fortunes will be
found in Nightingale, Lancs. Nonconf. iii,
167–78. It was at Bast House, to the
south-east of Gollinrod, that Henry
Pendlebury exercised his ministry after
being expelled from Holcombe in 1662;
ibid, iii, 158. |