France-Hayhurst family

The France-Hayhurst family lived in Bostock Hall near to Middlewich in Cheshire, England from 1775, until the house was sold to the local council in the 1950s. [cite web | title=Final family member dies | author=Guardian Newspapers | url=http://archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2003/7/9/168776.html | date=2003-07-09 | accessdate=2006-09-30] The family were responsible for a number of developments in the area, including the redevelopment of Bostock Green (now a conservation area) between 1850 and 1875. [cite web | title=Bostock Conservation Area Appraisal | author=Vale Royal Borough Council | url=http://www2.valeroyal.gov.uk/internet/vr.nsf/0/C3845BE12FD7B0B28025715E004B3D13/$file/bostock.pdf | date=April 2003 | accessdate=2006-09-30]

Family members of note

* Colonel Charles Hosken France Hayhurst (March 10 1832 - April 7 1914) Benefactor [cite web | title=ONCE again we travel to Bostock thanks to Turn the Clocks Back on May 1. | work=This is Cheshire.co.uk | url=http://archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2002/5/15/195745.html | accessdate=2006-12-21] cite web | title=Burials in St Wilfreds church, Davenham, Northwich, Cheshire | work=Ancestors at Rest | url=http://ancestorsatrest.com/cemetery_records/stwilfreds-davenham-c.shtml | accessdate=2006-12-21] . High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1879 [LondonGazette|issue=24683|startpage=927|date=22 February 1879|accessdate=2008-02-12]
* Thomas France Hayhurst (1803 - 1889) Rector of Davenham 1839-1884, Honorary Canon of Chester
* Captain William Hosken France-Hayhurst, High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1929 [LondonGazette|issue=33479|startpage=1965|date=22 March 1929|accessdate=2008-02-11]

Links

* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/fedocs.asp?FER=F3871 National register of archives]

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