Crompton of Firwood Fold

Genealogical notes on the Crompton family of Firwood Fold in Tonge in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors.

Firwood Fold in Tonge

Rental of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever 1598

Manchester Archives Ref: E7/27/2/1. 

Ralph Assheton of Great Lever for Great Lever, Farnworth, Ladyhalgh, Bolton, Warton and Hopehey.  Original documents contain record of rental values (not reproduced here).  Ladyhaulgh and Warton not reproduced here.

Rental of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever 1598

Farnworth Land Tax 1780

Lancashire Archives Ref QDL/S/40.

As Assessment of the Land Tax on the Inhabitants of the Township of Farnworth after the Rate of 4s per pound for the year 1780.

The Davenport Estate in Farnworth

The text below is extracted from a collection of Farnworth Deeds of Title at Salford Archives (Ref: BW/T/8/1 1649-1809).  Note that original purchaser is named as Edmund Rushton in the abstract of title, but Rishton in the original documents.

Abstract of the Title of the Assignees of Mr Robert Wilson a Bankrupt to a Messuage Tenement & Premises situate in Farnworth in the County of Lancaster.

Gartside of Prestwich

Genealogical notes on the Gartsides of Prestwich, later Manchester, and connected family Crompton of the Park in Pilkington.

Family tree of Gartside of Prestwich

Signature of Robert Gartsyde 1640
Witness to the will of Lawrence Crompton of Clifton

List of Farms in Little Hulton 1789

The text below is taken from the Little Hulton Town Book at Salford Archives (Ref: P6/04)

Farnworth Tenants in 1675

The transcripts and annotations below, relating to Farnworth, are from the DDBm collection at Lancashire Archives.

There are three copies of the 1675 survey; (a) the original, (b) a later draft copy, and (c) a later final copy.  Item (b) is annotated with the names of later tenants (undated) - these annotations are shown in [purple with square brackets] below.

There is another survey from 1765 which references the older survey, and details the tenant names.  These notes are annotated in blue italics.  Additional notes from other rental records are in square brackets.

A SURVEY of the several Tenements of Sr. John Bridgeman Bart.
in Great Leaver, Farneworth and Haulgh in the County of Lancaster
12th June 1675