User:Rupert Clayton/Fletchers listed in MGS admissions

Manchester Grammar admissions [1]

p22 1777 January 18 Adam, son of Jacob Fletcher, collier, Crompton Fold near Bolton, Lanc.

Adam Fletcher. esq., of Breightmet, was for some years a magistrate of the county palatine of Lancaster, acting for the division of Bolton, and captain of local volunteers at the time of the French revolution. He died unmarried and was buried on the 15th March 1799.

p22 1777 January 18 Jacob, son of Adam Fletcher, collier, Darcy Lever, near Bolton, Lanc.

Cousin to Adam Fletcher (see p. 21), and brother to Matthew (see anno 1778). His father was a proprietor of coal mines, and a magistrate of the county of Lancaster.

Jacob Fletcher died circa 1800.

p22 1777 January 18 Ellis, son of Jacob Fletcher, collier, Crompton Fold, near Bolton, Lanc.

Cousin to the preceding scholar and elder brother to Adam Fletcher. He resided during the greater part of his life at Clifton, in the parish of Eccles, having inherited from his uncle, Matthew Fletcher, of Clifton, esq., a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of the county, the bulk of his coal mines and other property, and he carried on the coal trade to the time of his death.

Ellis Fletcher is said to have been a man of retiring disposition, finding pleasure in the accumulation of wealth and in field sports, keeping a pack of hounds. He married rather late in life, Mary Ramsden, and died on the 26th April 1834, at the age of upwards of 75 years, leaving a large property, which has centered mainly in one of his grandchildren, Miss Fletcher of Peel (the only child of Jacob Fletcher, esq., who was the only surviving son of this scholar), recently married to the eldest son of Lord Combermere.

These scholars of the Fletcher family were grandchildren of Jacob Fletcher, of Crompton Fold, in Breightmet, near Bolton, who died in 1776, and were all churchmen and of the old Tory school of politics. The present owner of Clifton, John Fletcher, esq., is grandson of John Fletcher, the eldest brother of the father of this scholar.

p38 1778 January 17 Matthew, son of Adam Fletcher, esq., Darcy Lever, Lanc.

The elder brother of Jacob Fletcher. (See p. 22.) He lived at Crompton Fold, and was for a short time on the turf. His taste was for field sports and he kept a pack of hounds. Having been thrice married he died on the 1st September 1823.

p130 1784 January 19 Peter, son of Adam Fletcher, gent., Darcy Lever, Lanc.

Brother to Jacob (see p. 22, ante) and to Matthew Fletcher (p. 38). Peter is supposed to have died young.