Behind My Hindleys Phyl Sheppard traces her family ancestry back ...

THOMAS 1692 - 1754, ELLIS (1) 1717 -1753
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the Mother Church of Winwick. (A Chapel-of-Ease was a small chapel for the
worshippers, at some distance from the main Parish church. It had limited
powers in relation to the ceremonies it was allowed to hold. ) During the time
of Rev. Thomas Wilson (between 1686 and 1692), it became a Chapelry -
the same as a Chapel of Ease, but it had the same powers as the Mother
church. Between the Reformation in 1650, and 1749, with some exceptions,
there was no curate specially appointed to Newchurch. A grant to pay for
one was made from Queen Anne’s Bounty. This was an English
ecclesiastical fund which was founded in 1703 by Queen Anne, and the
tithes etc., which were originally paid to the Pope and later to the Crown,
were reserved for it. Its purposes were to augment small livings, to build
parsonage houses and generally to make grants for ecclesiastical purposes,
and it is now administered by the Church Commissioners.
Layout of village (see map) - the Warrington Road was made up of several
smaller roads or lanes, including Platt Lane & Lion Lane (or Holcroft Lane).
Key to locations
1. Bricklayers Arms (now Cherry Tree Inn) 2. School (from 1821)
3. School (from 1691, later Sundial House, later Culcheth Workhouse)
4. Harrow Inn 5. Pump 6. Lodge (to Culcheth Hall)
7. Lion's Den 8. Platt Cottages (now Pack Horse Inn)
9. Newchurch Church 10. Smithy