GAWSWORTH/PRESTBURY place name.

[tribi]

Am looking for the locality of the place name WOOD which is mentioned in the Gawsworth and Prestbury marriage records, possibly a shortened version of a surrounding village perhaps ? Any information appreciated please.
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[tribi]

Thanks Finbar, you might just have found my missing Wood. The place names in the register transcriptions are abbreviated, and I know my ancestors came from Gawsworth so your reply really helps.

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[Geoffers]

There's also a wood along Church Lane which I think from dim and distant memory is calle Maggot Wood?

[MythicalMarian]

Hold up! There's Wood Lane and there's also Woodford. Both of these are more likely, I should think, as they are actual villages/hamlets within the parish of Prestbury and less than 5 miles from Gawsworth.

[MythicalMarian]

Thanks Finbar, you might just have found my missing Wood. The place names in the register transcriptions are abbreviated, and I know my ancestors came from Gawsworth so your reply really helps.

tribi

Tribi, can I ask you which registers you were searching here? And for what time period? I ask because I was searching the Prestbury PRs very recently (2 weeks ago) and notice that at the left of every entry there is an abbreviated placename. ADL for Adlington, MAC for Macclesfield etc. If this is the case, and you had WOOD before the marriage entry, then I am sure we are definitely talking about Woodford. Prestbury in particular kept this format in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

I'm a Cheshire gal, so I'm not too bad on my parishes and townships.

[tribi]

Mythicalmarion
It is the Prestbury PR transcriptions I am talking about. Like you say the abbreviations at the side show Wood.
My ancestors were Hammonds from Gawsworth and I have a Thomas Hammond de Wood 1636, so have been trying to find where Wood could be situated somewhere near Gawsworth and the best clue I have is the Prestbury Marriage Transcriptions. You have really helped me and I am off to look at the map.

So thanks very much for your help, and to everyone who replied to my query. also thanks.

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[margaret bird]

Hi tribi. There are lots of Wood families in the Macclesfield area including henbury and Gawsworth-I am one of them ! I also used to live in Woodford and Adlington. There was also a Hammonds Brickworks in Pott Shrigley which is on the outskirts of adlington. Regards. Margaret.

[tribi]

Hi Margaret, thanks


the Hammonds lived for generations in Gawsworth but when I get back to the 1600's I have the one named Thomas Hammond de Wood so presumably he was Thomas Hammond of Wood. After Thomas the surname name was just recorded as Hammond. I Am just grasping at straws in my search to find out when they arrived in Gawsworth which I think was sometime in the 1400's.

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[Geoffers]

the Hammonds lived for generations in Gawsworth but when I get back to the 1600's I have the one named Thomas Hammond de Wood so presumably he was Thomas Hammond of Wood. After Thomas the surname name was just recorded as Hammond. I Am just grasping at straws in my search to find out when they arrived in Gawsworth which I think was sometime in the 1400's.

If this was a landed family - any mention in -

Visitations? - e.g. Cheshire 1580 (http://www.parishchest.com/shop/index.php?cmd=viewproduct&cat=&id=P12657&pageOffset=0)

Inquisitions Post Mortem (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=290)

British History online (it turns up with a search engine).

Did Thomas HAMMOND de Wood leave a will mentioning his holdings so that you might identify the wood?

[tribi]

Thanks Geoffers
The wills I have copies of just mention Gawsworth, or properties within the boundries of Gwasworth, and as far as I am aware they were Yoeman Farmers and not a landed family.
The first mention of a Hammond in Gawsworth was a Roger Hammond , Yoeman, who fought alongside Sir Edward Fitton (Gawsworth ) at the Battle of Blore Heath. The Hammonds were recorded in Gawsworth at the very beginning of the Parish Registers.

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