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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cheshire => Topic started by: Freestone on Sunday 03 April 11 10:52 BST (UK)
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A new website at www.1611macclesfieldsurvey.info has been created for family and local historians who are interested in tracing their ancestors amongst the inhabitants of the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield around 1611. The Survey was, in broad terms, the first census-type survey made in the district, and is invaluable to researchers who have not been able go back to this period in history and beyond.
The website lists all those freeholders, copyholders and tenants living in the above area at the time of the Survey, which was commissioned by Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, and made by 23 persons of standing in the local community, who were empanelled as Jurors and sworn to enquire of and present such changes as the Survey showed.
700 persons are listed in the name index, which has been transcribed from a large book (reference LR 2/200) held at The National Archives, Kew, London. There is also a township and house name index containing 64 house names; and an index of Extracts from Escheators Books showing 37 entries that relate to periods much earlier than 1611, the earliest of which is 1362 - 1363. All these indexes are free-to-access. There are also details of the boundaries of the Survey and how acreage of land was calculated.
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This website seems to have disappeared - anyone got any idea where it has gone, or who created it?
Thanks.
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It's not exactly new. It's been around for a couple of years now and is listed on the Cheshire Resource Board.
It was created by Ray Hulley and you will find it here........
http://www.tiger2.f2s.com/1611MacclesfieldSurvey/index.php
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Thank you.
I knew it wasn't new (the original post was made in 2011) but the website address www.1611macclesfieldsurvey.info no longer worked and I was unable to find it.
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Sorry about that :-[
I didn't spot the date on the post from Freestone and I should have done so.