CLEWES - Parish Records Lookup Request

[magdalena67]

William, I have made a note of your family names in this area & wondered (if you're not from hereabouts yourself) whether you know that Stoke-on-Trent is in the "top corner" of Staffordshire? It is very close to the Cheshire border (about 2 miles from where I live) & Nantwich is not far into Cheshire. Shropshire is, likewise, very close by... I've made a note of your family names in those places - but alas, I don't know when I'll be in Northern Wales... my relations were in the South!

[wrjones]

Thanks,my Conway relatives from Flint Flintshire first settled in the Mow Cop area soon after 1850,spreading also to Stoke-on-Trent itself and also to the Congleton/Crewe areas.All the Staffordshire names I have come from the marriage of my Grandparents Sarah M.M. Conway and Joseph Durber at Bagillt Flintshire in 1913.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[magdalena67]

Mow Cop  !! Lovely!! I can see the folly from my house! My partner is working up there tonight!

It's practically part of Stoke-on-Trent!

The border of Cheshire & Staffordshire actually runs through Mow Cop... it's tricky doing youth work up there, because various regional grants have cut-off zones & each thinks the other county should be covering the village on the border!

[wrjones]

Yes it was tricky following my rellies from there too.Some given as born Cheshire and some born Staffordshire.All those funding issues.lol

Regards
William Russell Jones.