History
Whiston in 1750
Frances Mansel's Charity
Frances Mansel, by Will, dated 15th September 1728, charged her messuage and lands at Tickhill (later the property of John Hirst, esq.), with the payment of £6. a year to a schoolmaster for teaching 12 poor children of Whiston, to be chosen by the rector and churchwardens, to read, write, cast accounts, and say the catechism, and 52s. a year to be laid out in bread, and given half to poor children, and half to poor ancient people of Whiston frequenting the church on Sundays; and she further charged the premises with what sum might be necessary to buy books for the poor children whilst at school, and that each of them might have a new Bible and Whole Duty of Man when able to read, write, and say the catechism.
The annuities of £6, and £2 12s. 0d., are applied in the way directed by the testatrix, but the number of scholars taught gratis has been reduced to eight. Books used to be supplied by the late owner of the property charged by the will, but Mr. Hirst has substituted a payment of 12s. a year, and as that sum is scarcely sufficient to supply books according to the testatrix's intention, we have suggested to Mr. Hirst that the allowance should be increased.
Population in 1750 - 859
Rev. Benj. Birkett, curate
William Jubb, gentleman
Rev. R. Lacy, rector and magistrate
William Parkins, gentleman
Lydia Whitehead, gentlewoman
William Abson, shoemaker
Charles Ashley, blacksmith
George Ashley, stonemason
George Banks, millwright
John Boomer, overseer
John Boomer,collector of taxes
William Bower, clerk and sexton
John Brayshaw shoemaker
John Broadhead, church organist
Thomas Coe, wheelwright
William Cooper, vict, Three Cranes - renamed Sitwell Arms in 1823 when the village was purchased by
George Sitwell
William Cooper,jnr, butcher
Richard Cutt, linen manufacturer
Thomas Cutt, shoemaker
Benj. Dennis, tailor
Robert Elliott, vict, Chequers
Robert Elliott, butcher
Thomas England, grocer
John Foers, stonemason
William Gillatt, stonemason
John Hardwick, collector of taxes
Thomas Hardwick, overseer
Thomas Harrison, churchwarden
Thomas Harrison, wheelwright
William Heward, constable
J & W. Heward, tanners
John Jarvis, tailor
John Midgely, wheelwright
Benj. Newbould, grocer
Thomas Pearson, churchwarden
John Roddis, stonemason
Samuel Roddis, stonemason
William Roddis, stonemason
John Rotherham, wheelwright
Joseph Simmonite, shoemaker
William Stanley, shoemaker
Thomas Street, tailor
James White, maltster
George Wilkinson, vict The Ball
Source: Baines Directory 1750
1807 - Details of Timber from Canklow Woods for sale
An Act for enclosing Lands in the Parish of Whiston, was passed by the House of Lords in 1816
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