- Marriage, 26 June 1759, St John, Saltersford Cum Kettleshulme, [chapelry of the parish of Prestbury] Cheshire, England
Edward Dixon of the parish of Taxal
Martha Brocklehurst of this Parish
were married by License by Thomas Potts, Curate
in the presence of Mary Stubbs & William Hulme
SALTERSFORD, is a chapelry, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, and Northern division of the county of Chester, it is 6 miles ENE from Macclesfield. The chapel is a neat edifice, erected in 1731.[1]
Saltersford St John was dedicated originally to St John the Baptist later St John the Evangelist and as a chapelry was known as the Jenkin Chapel. Saltersford is one of the 35 townships in pre-Norman Prestbury Ancient Parish.
Its building was financed by John Slack of Saltersford Hall, and by other voluntary contributions, and it was dedicated on 24 June 1733, originally to St John the Baptist. The tower was added in 1754-55, but the church was not officially consecrated until 1894, when it was re-dedicated to St. John the Evangelist.
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