BOSTOCK FAMILY:
“WHIXALL”,
“ST. WILFRED” and “ST. BARTHOLOMEW”
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ST
WILFRED CHURCH
"Located on Church Lane,
Grappenhall; a village near Warrington, Cheshire, England. Many of the old
registers are archived in Chester and are no longer available at the church.
The graveyard was surveyed in 1972 and the legible inscriptions and the
locations of the graves were recorded; some of which are over 300 years old.
Charles Bostock(b 1569) at
Charles (b1600/1606), Baptized
at St. Bartholomew Exchange in
"St.
Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange was a church in the City
of London located on Bartholomew Lane, off Threadneedle
Street. Recorded since the 13th century, the church was destroyed in the Great
Fire of 1666, then rebuilt by the office of Sir
Christopher Wren. The rebuilt church was demolished in 1840
WHIXALL
"There are no entries for Whixall during the time of the Black Death in 1348-9, when between a third and a half of the population died of the plague leaving only about 2.5 million people alive in the whole country. Some of the manors around Whitchurch at this time recorded "the farm servants are all dead and nobody will take the land". It would appear that not everybody in Whixall was wiped out as at least two of the family names on the 1327 roll also appear in the 1407 records. There are no records of Whixall from 1370 to 1406 but it is known that during this period that there were many Welsh border battles involving Owen Glendower. Records from 1408 refer to places such as Whitchurch, Clive, Myddle, Stanton, Redcastle and many others , saying "...were wasted, burnt and destroyed ...and the tenants have fled." No building from this time survive in Whixall today."
"The time of the Bostocks in Whixall was a period of
great change in
" It was
common at that time for squatters to build cottages on roadside verges or on the
manorial waste as a result of the rising population. The houses shown on the
1847 tithe map at Welshend,
" In 1704 the whole of the common lands were surveyed and, by agreement, two thirds were allotted to the freeholders and copyholders and the remaining third was allotted to Lord Gower and Squire Sandford in the proportions of one quarter and three quarters respectively."
"In 1722 there was a court ruling which decreed that all the lords' copyhold and leasehold property had to be offered for sale to the occupiers if they wanted them or the best bidder which further dismantled the old manorial system."
BOSTOCK
HALL
" Bostock Hall was built around 1550, but the site is much older being the site of an old manorial house from the period 1200-1400. The moated site midway between the Alders and Abbey Green is the site of a farm house of the same period. The 1668 survey also refers to "Land called Le Foxholes which was conceived to be land in which was a manorial house adjoining to that parcel of common known by the name Poole Bank". The actual position of this third site is still unknown."
"The history of Whixall Hall is almost unknown, since the deeds of the original house have not been found. More is known about Bostock Hall. Ralph and Cicely Bostock lived in a Bostock Hall, Moulton near Middlwich and had a son Robert who married Anne Soulton of Whixall in the early 1500's. The Soulton family were landowners in Whixall and it is probable that Robert obtained land in Whixall by his marriage to Anne. Robert and Anne settled in Whixall and it was they who had Bostock Hall built here. They had a son, Thomas born about 1520, and the family line continued from Thomas to George to Andrew to George to Richard to Nathaniel Bostock, born in 1655, Nathaniel became a renowned "Doctor of Physic" and it is assumed that the family sold up to move to a more populated area for him to continue his practice since there is no record of them after 1717."
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Whixall Hall and Bostock Hall are two ancient residences, later occupied as farm houses