Peter Hunnisett

William & Martha Newnes of Crudgington

William MAY have been a son of Thomas Newns and baptised in Wem on 2^nd January 1722/3.

Martha MAY have been a daughter of Jno/Jon Fortune and baptised at St Chad’s, Shrewsbury, on 23^rd April 1727.

William appears to have been the first Newnes to have lived in Crudgington. He married Martha Fortune in St Michael and All Angels Church, High Ercall, on 20^th January 1755. At that time High Ercall was the parish church, there being no church in Crudgington until the end of the 19^th century. Their marriage was witnessed by Jane Mathews.

They had 7 children, all christened in High Ercall although the register states they were 'of Crudgington Green':

Martha, William's wife, died in 1798 and was buried in High Ercall on 24^th August 1798. When William died, some 14 years later, he too was buried at High Ercall on 4^th December 1812.

Of their children:

• James died aged about 6 months and was buried in High Ercall on 7^th November 1765.
• Charles became a shoemaker and married Ann Worley in High Ercall in 1792.

• George married Elizabeth Lewis in High Ercall on 14^th November 1791. They were married by Henry Wood and the ceremony was witnessed by George's brother, Charles Newnes. They lived in Rowton and had one child:

  John

  12 Dec 1793

  The following year George died and was buried in High Ercall on 17^th October 1794. It is thought that Elizabeth subsequently remarried to John Walker in 1796.