William Carlisle, s William of Sedbergh, pleb; MAGDALEN HALL, m 14 Dec 1791 aged 29; BA 1798, MA 1799[1]The Reverend William Carlisle, moved from Sedbergh, in the County of York, about the year 1785, and being soon after patronized by John Sneyd, Esq. of Belmont, he was on the 9th December 1789 nominated to the perpetual curacy of Ipstones, in the County of Stafford, in which Parish Belmont is situate.[2]
Status: literate - Its use indicates that a clergyman did not possess a degree, but that he was judged by the bishop to possess sufficient learning to qualify for ordination.
Bishop: James Cornwallis of Coventry & Lichfield 1781-1824 [5]
On the 1st January, 1792, [at All Saints, Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England. Witnesses: J. WOOLFE and John KIRBY[7]], he married Prudence, fourth daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Wolfe, of Dilhorne. And in January 1799, he took his Master's Degree at Magdalen-Hall, Oxford[8]
Appointments
Assistant curate, Bucknall 23 September 1787
Perpetual curate, Ipstones 9 December 1789 – 27 August 1833
Perpetual curate, Earl Sterndale 9 December 1789 – 25 September 1833
Rector and Vicar, Sutton cum Duckmanton 15 July 1806
Rector, Sutton cum Duckmanton 26 July 1810 – 29 July 1833
1883, June 20. At Belmont, aged 73, the Rev. William Carlisle, Rector of Sutton le Dale, Derbyshire, and Perpetual Curate of Ipstones, Staffordshire. He was appointed to Ipstones by the freeholders in 1789; and instituted to Sutton in 1810.[11]
Burial
Name Reverend William Carlisle
Event Type Burial
Event Date 26 Jun 1833
Event Place Ipstones, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Ipstones in 1817.
Ipstones is a parish in an elevated situation, about three miles to the north of Kingsley, and five to the south-east of Leek. It comprises the township of Morredge and Foxt, and contains 248 houses, 250 families; 631 males, 604 females: total of inhabitants 1,235. The cliffs in this parish are high and picturesque.
The village of Ipstones contains several well-built houses, and two large inns. The Church, which is about a mile from the village, is situated on a gentle eminence, and is a neat modern structure of stone, in the Gothic style of architecture, with a square tower, adorned with four pinnacles and vanes. The interior is roomy and clean, and the pews are of fir. This edifice was built in the year 1790.
Every Saturday morning the church-bell is rung at eleven o'clock to summon the out-poor of the parish to attend at church, where they receive their weekly pittance from one of the overseers. Among other instances of longevity recorded in the church-yard, is the following: "Here lie the remains of Robert Clowes, interred Nov. 7, 1771, aged 93 years:" The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. Mr. Littleton is patron, and the Rev. William Carlisle curate.
Belmont, the seat of the late John Sneyd, Esq. is in this parish. It is situated on a gentle eminence facing the south-east, and surrounded by woods of oak, elm, ash, and other trees. The underwood is mountain ash, hazle, alder, and salixes of several species, which are cut once in six years to make crates for the Potteries.[13]
↑ England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988; Place: Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England; Collection: All Saints; -; Date Range: 1756 - 1906; Film Number: 1470943; Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2002
↑ Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service:, (FindmyPast.co.uk)
↑ Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Carlisle, Nicholas Carlisle, W. Nicol, 1822
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