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Sources for the Woolliscroft families of Leek, Staffordshire in the 1700's | Williscroft, Woolliscroft, Wolliscroft & Variant's Worldwide Onename Study | Jill Dixon

Sources for the Woolliscroft families of Leek, Staffordshire in the 1700's


 Leek Families         Thomas 1732-1812          Robert 1770-1852       William 1771-1841      Sources      Family Tree


1.Staffordshire Parish Record. Original Records, Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG 

2. The Universal British Directory 1791, Vol IV, No. 55, p361.Ancestry.com. UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

3. West Yorkshire, Land Tax, 1703–1932, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, England. QE13/16/34.

4. The London Gazette, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/, Gazette Issue 15971 published on the 1 Nov 1806. Page 7 of 12.

5. British Newspaper Archive, The British Library, London, NW1 2DB, Trewman's Exeter Flying Post (Exeter, England), Thursday, November 6, 1806; Issue 2246.

6. The London Gazette, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/, Gazette Issue 16924 published on the 9 August 1814. Page 16 of 24.

7. Wills and Admons proved at the Bishops Court at Lichfield, Staffordshire, 1537-1857, Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG, Original Document, Thomas Woolliscroft 16 Nov 1816.

8.  “Ann Wolliscroft, Doncaster, July 1823, Probate Record, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD. Original Document

9. “The New Monthly Magazine,” Jun to Dec 1817, VIII, 281, Colburn, London, 1817, (Google eBook), https://books.google.co.uk.

10. Manchester, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1866 (Cathedral) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

11. Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives. Drm/2/175.

12. “West Yorkshire, Land Tax, 1703–1932. West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, England.” QE13/16/27-34.

13. “Newspaper.” 1823 Mar 1 The Yorkshire Observer. (Ed. by P.F. Sidney).

14. “Rotherham Parish MIs for All Saints Church,” Transcriber Jack Parry, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/MIs/WRY/RotherhamMiscellaneousMIs.html.

15. England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013

16. England, Marriages, 1538–1973. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

17. Probate, PCC, London, 18 Dec 1839, Sarah Booth

18. “Holden's Triennial Directory,” 1805, 1806, 1807, Vols 1 and 2, 223, Ancestry.com. UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

19. The Lancaster Gazetteer: and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, January 09, 1802; Issue 30. “British Newspaper Archive,”, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. 

20. “The London Gazette,”, 9 April 1799 Issue 15123 Page 337

21. “St Edward's, Leek”, Original Parish Records, Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG

22. British Newspaper Archive, The British Library, London, The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, November 5, 1806; Issue 11691.

23. “History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster; with a Variety of Commercial & Statistical Information. Volumes I-II.,” Wm. Wales & Co., Liverpool, 1824-25.

24. Manchester, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

25. “1841 Census Returns for England & Wales,” The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry.com Operations Inc.: HO107; Piece: 536; Book: 9; Civil Parish: Bolton Le Moors; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 18; Folio: 34; Page: 21; Line: 1; GSU roll: 306920

26. “1851 Census Returns for England & Wales,” The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry.com Operations Inc. Class: HO107; Piece: 2228; Folio: 18; Page: 28

27. "St Mary's, Uttoxeter", Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

28. British Newspaper Archive, The British Library, London, NW1 2DB,Derby Mercury 6 Apr 1770

29. (Leek: Introduction', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7: Leek and the Moorlands (1996), pp. 78-83.)

30.  "All Saints, Dilhorne"Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

31. Wills and Admons proved at the Bishops Court at Lichfield, Staffordshire, 1537-1857, Lichfield Record Office, The Friary, Lichfield, WS13 6QG, Original Document, 27 Sep 1706, William Woollascroft

32.  "St Mary & St Lawrence, Cauldon", Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

33.  "St Peter, Alstonefield", Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

34.  "St Lawrence, Warslow", Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

35. "All Saints, Grindon", Original Parish Records, Staffordshire Record Office Eastgate Street, Stafford, ST16 2LZ

36.  Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811: Class: IR 1; Piece: 34

37.  Staffordshire Advertiser , Saturday 25 May 1799 , Staffordshire, England

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