Early ADSHEADs
in the Prestbury Area from 1300
Gordon
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A – Prestbury Church
Cover
• Map of Area using BatchGeo
• Origins & 1881 Atlas
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Macclesfield Hundred Records
Visitations, Inventories & Wills
ADSHEAD Green & Farms
Macclesfield Silk & Brewery
More Recent Local Sites
www.batchgeo.com
Where did ADSHEADs Originate?
Surname Mapping
Macclesfield Hundred - Court Records
• De ADDESHEDE etc 1355-1383
Thomas, Robert, John, Margota, Cecilia
• ADDYSHEDD, ADDESHED 1505-1521
Edward, Honkyn, Nicolas, Raynold
Other Early References
• William 1489 Birch Chapel Manchester
• Edward HADISHED 1505 Lichfield Ordination
• Thomas ADSED – 1532 Oxford Univ
1536-1578
Durham, Kent, Shropshire, Chester,
Lowestoft, Lymm, Tarporley, Westminster,
Stockport
Visitations of 1580
• D- Birchencliffe
Thomas ADDESHEAD
• E- Shrigley Hall
• F- Pott Hall & Pott Shrigley
E – Shrigley Hall
F – Pott Shrigley Church – opposite Pott Hall
B- Inventories of 1611
Macclesfield Hundred
• Thomas ADSHED of Rainowe
B- Inventories of 1611
• Reginals ADSHED of Bollington
C – Billinge Head Farm
• 1676 Will referring to George ADSHED
Billinge in Rainow
C – Billinge Head Farm – above Bollington
G- ADSHEAD GREEN
• [David Hey – Sheffield Univ]
Plot of ADSHEAD Deaths 1840-1845
• Hamlet on road between
Alderley Edge and Prestbury
H- Mottram St Andrew Mines
Adders- Head ?
Cheshire (Macclesfield Hundred)
Over Alderley
Adshead Farms
• I – Bollington below White Nancy
• J – Dean Row
• K – Northern Etchells (Gatley) {M56}
I – ADSHEAD Farm – Bollington
I – Adshead Farm Bollington
J – Adshead Farm Dean Row
Macclesfield ADSHEADs
• L Lark Hall
• M Silk Dying Works & ADSHEADs Ales
• N Gawsworth New Hall - John
L- Lark Hall
& M- Brewery on The Green
Bull’s Head Kettleshulme ~1948
More Recent Sites
• O- ADSHEAD House – Hazel Grove
• P- Sand Quarry Jodrell Bank
“ANOTHER LOAD OF ADSHEADS”