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A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Non-Christian religions NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS. The … Street in 1971. 49 G.R.O., Worship Reg. nos. 69713, 73375; Walsall Observer, 31 Dec. 1971, 12 Apr. 1972; Express & Star, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Daffodil Farm, Wood End, … 1719 and 1722 the estate was held by Richard Scott, a Walsall ironmonger. 26 By 1784 it had passed to a Mr. … called Daffydowndilly House. 29 John Shannon (d. 1875), a Walsall clothing manufacturer, was apparently the owner in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Parliamentary history PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY. Walsall became a parliamentary borough returning one member by the Reform Act of 1832. Walsall Wood and Shelfield were excluded from the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Protestant Nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. … of God. 39 Baptists. There was a Baptist congregation at Walsall in 1651 when Robert Stotesbury and Thomas Cumberlidge … War and was a ring-leader in the anti-inclosure riots at Walsall in 1653. 41 There was at least one Anabaptist in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Public services PUBLIC SERVICES. As early as 1309 the … granted by the lords of the manor to the burgesses of Walsall stipulated that the market-place should be kept … plague threatened in 1636 and 1637. In November 1636 the Walsall justices issued orders to prevent it from spreading …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Roman Catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Among the numerous recusants who occur in Walsall from the early 1580s 92 were several prominent local … labourers'. 1 John Bradford, the Independent minister at Walsall in the later 1780s, claimed that he found there 'as …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Social life SOCIAL LIFE. By 1612 a wake was held at Walsall late in September. 50 It may thus have originated in … taken place on temporary sites. 58 A traditional custom at Walsall was the throwing of apples, nuts, and hot copper …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall The growth of the town THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN. The … The settlement, in existence by the mid 12th century when Walsall is first mentioned, was presumably on the top of the … 50 and Digbeth, so named by 1583, 51 to the bridge over Walsall Brook, in existence c. 1300. 52 There was a mill to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for edgetools, and some corn-mills. A branch of the Walsall and Birmingham canal extends to the western extremity …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Mission Room c. 1892-3; 22 and the Mission Hall at the Walsall Street schools c. 1910, continuing until the 1920s. … the east window had been used by Goodwin at St. Matthew's, Walsall. 26 The church was badly damaged by mining subsidence … church at Hill Top was given in 1840 by Joseph Hateley of Walsall, and the church of ST. JAMES there was licensed in …