RootsChat.Com

Thank you all for the information. Looking at the newspaper fron 1811 it looks like Francis Povey may have bought the Hay House after after it went up to sale with other local land. The paper is damaged at the bottom but I cam make out "plans of the lots may be seen at Mr ........stone's office, Friars....

I had thought it may be Pulestone who were the landed gentry, but searching "office friars" comes up with Mr Humberstone.

That’s sounds very possible! Maybe it wasn’t an earlier house but an earlier name of the same house.
Where can I see the Chester courant? I’ve a subscription to newspapers.com but didn’t find it there

I am trying to find out anything I can about The Manor, a house in Shocklach in Cheshire. I have found quite a lot going back to the 1830s, but prior to this I have been unable to find anymore. It was built c1775 but it is believed an earlier house was on the site called the Hay House.

Can anyone suggest anywhere to look for more information? I did wonder if the house may have been owned by the lords of the manor, the Puleston family. The earliest person owning the house I can find is Francis Povey.

Hello, I am struggling to find my ancestor Thomas in the 1841 census. He was born in 1808 Astbury, Cheshire, married Mary Mellor in 1834 Leek Staffordshire and by this point had several children - Sarah 1835, Elizabeth 1836, Jane 1837 and John 1840 all baptised in the Rushton James/Heaton area.
He living at Willishaw Farm, Rushton Spencer 1851, Biddulph Common in 1861 and Park Farm, Biddulph in 1871.

Can anyone help?

Tom

Yes, one in the same!