KELSALL

       ; family of,                      :366,500,555.
-------; monuments of in Cheadle Church, :555.
-------; [other references,]             :356,366,500,501,555,651,797,834.

[p355]   CHESHIRE

Ancient Families extinct and existing

         The  following is a list of families still resident in this county,
whose descent has been continued in an uninterrupted male line [e] for  more

than three centuries, and some of them for a much greater length of time:

[inter  alia]
        Davenport  of  Woodford.
[p356]  Kelsall  formerly  of Bradshaw, now of Chester.
        Venables (now Legh)

[note:
e:  In some cases the older branch has become extinct, but the male line has
been continued by younger branches.]

[p366]  The eldest branch of the Kelsalls, who were originally of Kelsall in
Tarvin, became extinct at an early period: a younger branch was of  Bradshaw
and  Heathside,  both in Cheadle: the immediate descendant of this family is
Oldfield Kelsall Esq., who is the present owner of Bradshaw-Hall but resides
in Chester. James Kelsall, a younger son of the Bradshaw family, settled  in
Audley  in Staffordshire, and died in 1583, at the age of 107 years, leaving
a numerous family; a branch of  which  settled  at  Barthomley,  and  became
extinct  in 1802: another branch of the Kelsalls, which was of Trafford, has
become extinct also in the male line; the heiress  of  this  branch  married
J. Glegg Esq.  of Withington.

[p465]   Parochial Topography

[p500]  The  parish  of  BARTHOMLEY,  which  is  situated  on  the border of
Staffordshire, and extends into that county, lies  within  the  hundred  and
deanery  of  Namptwich:  it  contains  five  townships, Barthomley, Alsager,
Barterley, Crewe, and Haslington: Barterley lies chiefly  in  Staffordshire.
The  Township  of  Barthomley  lies  about  seven  miles  and a half E. from
Nantwich [i]: the manor, which is the property of  Lord  Crewe,  has  passed
with Crewe-Hall and manor, as will be hereafter more particularly mentioned:
the  manors of Stoke in Acton, and Tranmols in Bebington, were held formerly
as parcel of this manor.

          The  nave of the parish church has a richly carved wooden roof put
up in 1589,  and  ornamented  with  the  arms  of  Acton,  Delves,  Egerton,
Venables,  &c.  In the chancel is the monument of Sir Robert Fulleshurst, or
Foulshurst [k] one of Lord Audley's Esquires, at the battle of Poictiers. In
the Crewe chapel is a pedigree of the ancient family of  that  name,  and  a
monument  for  Anne  and Elizabeth, co-heiresses of John Crewe Esq.  [l] the
last heir male, who died in 1684, and  lies  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey.
There are memorials also in the church, for the family of Malbon of Bradley,
and  in  the  church  yard  for  those of Acton, Alsager and Kelsall [m].The
patronage of the rectory has passed with the manor, being now vested in Lord
Crewe.

[notes:
i: see p502.
k: see p447 where is a figure of it.
l: see p371.
m: The last heir male of the Actons died in 1702: the last of  the  Alsagers
(to  whose memory there is a monument at Congleton) in 1768: the last of the
Kelsalls in 1802.]

[p501]   The manor of Barterly, or  Balterly,  which  township  is  situated
chiefly  in  the  county of Stafford [r], is part of the inheritance of John
Lawton of Lawton, Esq. A charity-school was founded at Balterly,  about  the
year 1730, by the Kelsall family of Hall-o'-Wood in this township, which was
for  many  generations the seat of the family of Wood [s], and passed to the
Kelsalls by marriage.

[notes:
r:  It  lies about six miles and a half N.W. by W. from Newcastle under Lyne
[SIC].
s: The Hall at this place is said to have been built by  Thomas  Wood,  lord
chief-justice  of  the  common  pleas,  in  the  early part of the sixteenth
century.]

[p555]  The township of Cheadle-Hulme, or Cheadle-Mosley, lies  nearly  four
miles  from  Stockport;  the  principal  estate  in this township, which has
belonged to the Savages, passed in marriage to the  Marquis  of  Winchester,
and  was  purchased  of  his by Sir Nicholas Mosley Knight [f], who was Lord
mayor of London in the year 1599: about the year 1695, the daughter and heir
of  Sir  Edward  Mosley  Bart.  brought  it  to  Sir  John  Bland  Bart.  of
Kippax-park, in the county of York, whose grandson having obtained an act of
Parliament  for that purpose, sold it 1754 to John Davenport Esq.  of
Stockport: having passed by devise to the family of Bamford, it devolved, on
the death of William Bamford Esq. without issue  male  in  1807,  to  Robert
Hesketh Esq. of Upton near Chester, who has assumed the name of Bamford, and
is  the  present proprietor. Bradshaw-Hall in this township, the property of
Oldfield Kelsall Esq. of Chester, was for many generations the seat  of  his
ancestors:it is now occupied by a farmer.

[note:
f: Bishop Gastell's Notitia Cestrensis.]

[p651]   Dodleston
         The Earl of Bridgwater ...  sold his estate at Dodleston to Richard
Kelsall  Esq.  of  Trafford:  it  is  now the property of John Glegg Esq. of
Withington, who married Bridget  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  late  John
Kelsall Esq.

[p797]    The  township  of  Kelsall  lies three miles N.E. from Tarvin, and
eight miles from Chester; the manor belonged formerly to the  Kelsalls,  who
took  their  name from this township; it is now in moieties between the Earl
of Plymouth, by inheritance from the Whitleys of Peele, and John Arden  Esq.
by inheritance from the Dones: it was held in ancient times under the barons
of  Dunham  Massey,  who  appear  to  have  held the fee under the bishop of
Lichfield and Coventry. Kelsall-Hall is a farm-house.

[p834]    Among the Cheshire men, who were excepted in the  general  act  of
pardon  by  Henry  IV.   in the first year of his reign, on account of their
adherence to the fallen monarch  [Richard  II],  were  two  sons  of  Robert
Aldersey;  Thomas  Beeston,  David Brayne, David Bostock, Nicholas Bulkeley,
Thomas de Cholmondeley, Hugh  de  Cholmondeley,  John  Cholmondeley  of  the
hundred  of  Broxton,  William Clayton, William Coke, chaplain of the parish
church of Wich-Malbank, Thomas Cottingham, Robert, son of John Davenport  of
Bromhall,  David  Dod of Edge, John Done of Utkinton, Thomas Holford, Thomas
de Kelsall, John Legh of Booths, Gilbert Legh, William Mascey of  Knutsford,
Robert  Overton,  William Roter, Robert de Salghall, vicar of Acton, Richard
de Werberton, and Sir Richard Wynyngton, knight [b].

[note:
b:  Rot.Parl.I Hen.IV.p7 m28.]