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The
Population of Hamstall Ridware
Stebbing Shaw noted the following from which
can be ascertained the size of the
settlement: ‘When hearth money was collected
about 1662, here were 94 hearths, which paid
9l. 8s.’ The census returns of 1831 give a
population of 443; that of 1841 a population
of 391. White’s (trade) Directory of 1834
lists some of the 443 inhabitants of the
parish with their occupations.
Farmers
William Cooper, Rowley; Ellen Cotterill,
Netherton; James Gee, Sandborough; William
Gee, Hamstall Ridware; Thomas Gould,
Hamstall Ridware; William Jaggard, Hamstall
Ridware; Joseph Jones, Netherton; Samuel
Jones, Cowley Hill; Jonathen Lawrence,
Netherton; Jonathen Lawrence, Rowley; Robert
Lawrence, Sandborough; Thomas Lawrence,
Netherton; William Orgill, Bancroft; Thomas
Orgill, Rough Park; John Wooley, Hamstall
Ridware; Joseph Wooley, Hamstall Ridware.
Other occupations in Hamstall
Ridware
William Chapman, Shoemaker; Mary Fletcher,
Victualler at the Rose and Crown; Joseph
Fowell, Blacksmith; James Godwin, Shoemaker;
Thomas Hicklin, Shoemaker; Richard Knowles,
Gentleman; Charles Leigh, Shopkeeper; Joseph
Lindsey, Tailor and Shopkeeper; Joseph
Mason, Butcher; Edward Roobottom, Cornmiller;
Ann Tomlinson, Free School; Rev Edward Rider
Willes, Rector; Charles Wooley, Wheelwright,
Blythfield Cross; Samuel Bently,
Wheelwright, Cowley Hill
As the above record shows, the school
teacher at this time was Ann Tomlinson. The
original village school was built onto an
existing cottage in 1809 by Thomas Leigh. A
new school building was opened in 1908 but
unfortunately closed in 1983; the building
was demolished and the site developed for
housing.
The mill closed down at the beginning of the
twentieth century and the building then
became a cheese factory and a cowshed before
being converted to a private house in 1982.
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