John Parsons Earwaker

John Parsons Earwaker Antiquary
Spouse	Juliet Bergman

John Parsons Earwaker (1847–1895) was an English

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Life

The son of John Earwaker, he was born at

Earwaker stayed at

After his marriage in 1875 Earwaker resided at Withington, near Manchester, and then in 1881 moved to Pensarn, near Abergele, North Wales. He wrote, and took part in local affairs.^[1]

Earwaker died on 29 January 1895 at Pensarn, and was buried in the old churchyard of Abergele.^[1]

Works

In April 1875 Earwaker began the publication in the Manchester Courier of a series Local Gleanings relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, which ran until January 1878, and then was republished in two volumes. It was followed in 1878-80 by a periodical entitled Local Gleanings: an Archæological and Historical Magazine, of which one volume was completed. The first volume of his East Cheshire, Past and Present; or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield was published in 1877, and the second in 1881.^[1]

In 1882 the corporation of Manchester decided to print the Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, ranging from 1552 to 1846, and Earwaker was engaged as editor. The work, with annotations, extended to twelve

volumes, the first of which was printed in 1884, and the last in 1890. It was supplemented by The Constables' Accounts of the Manor of Manchester, from 1612 to 1647 and from 1743 to 1776, 3 vols. 1891–2. Earwaker put the Congleton corporation records into admirable order, and work on family papers resulted in monographs, as his Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, and the Old Deeds and Charters relating to it.

He was one of the founder members of the

Other works by Earwaker included:[1]

• Index to the Wills and Inventories at Chester from 1545 to 1760, Record Society, 1879–92, 7 vols.
• Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories, Chetham Society, 1884–93, 2 vols.
• A Lancashire Pedigree Case; or a History of the various Trials for the Recovery of the Harrison Estates from 1873 to 1886, 1887.
• The Recent Discoveries of Roman Remains found in repairing the North Wall of the City of Chester, a series of papers by various writers, edited by Earwaker, 1888.
• History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, 1890.
• The Cheshire Sheaf, new series, reprinted from the Chester Courant, 1891.
• History of the Church and Parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, completed by
  Rupert Hugh Morris
  , 1898.

Legacy

Earwaker's library of printed books and manuscripts, including transcripts of original documents, was divided after his death. The Cheshire portion was purchased by

Family

Earwaker married, on 1 June 1875, Juliet, daughter of John George Bergman of Colinshays,

Notes

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Earwaker, John Parsons". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

• Chetham Society
• Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society^{[permanent dead link]}
• Report on the Earwaker MS Collection in the Grosvenor Museum Library, Chester, by James Hall, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Vol. 17, Published 1910, pp. 97

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Creation	Secretary of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1878–94	Succeeded by William Fergusson Irvine