Adam Crompton
Events
Date of Birth: 1683.
Place of Birth: unknown.
This date is given by Lyddon and Marshall, which I have not yet consulted.
Date of Burial: 23 July 1737.
Place of Burial: Bolton, Lancashire.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: James Crompton.
Mother: Ellen Clarke.
James names his son Adam and his wife Ellen in his will.
Spouse: Alice Heap. Married 7 October 1707 in Bolton.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register. Adam names his wife Alce in his will.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Crompton (buried 1 April 1713 in Bolton)
James Crompton (buried 18 September 1715 in Bolton)
John Crompton (baptized 2 February 1717/18 in Bolton - buried 20 December 1769 in Prescot, Lancashire) married Mary Hardman 2 October 1739 in Bolton.
unnamed child (buried 3 July 1721 in Bolton)
Adam Crompton (baptized 5 December 1722 in Ringley, Lancashire - died 30 October 1793, buried 11 November 1793 in Bolton) married Hannah Mills 5 September 1749 in Bolton.
Richard Crompton (baptized 5 November 1726 in Ringley, Lancashire - buried 18 March 1727/8 in Bolton)
Heap Crompton (baptized 9 December 1732 in Bolton). Heap appears to have moved to Liverpool, and then to Londonderry.
Ellen Crompton married John Longworth.
Evidence
from the parish registers for Bolton-le-Moors, St. Peter:
October 1707
Adam Crompton of this p[ar]ish & Alice Heap of P[re]stige --- 7
[Burials] 1 April 1713
Thomas S. of Adam & Alice Crompton of L. Lever 1 [i.e. 1 April]
[Burials] September 1715
James S. Adam Alice Crompton L. Lever 14
[Baptisms] 1717/18 February
John S. of Adam & Alice Crompton of L. Lever born the 26 of Jan. 2
[Burials] July 1721
An Abortive of Adam & Alice Crompton L. Lever 3
Baptisms Dec. 1732
Heape S. Adam Crompton paperma. & Alice his [‘w’ missing] L. Leav.r 9
July 1737. Bur:ls
Adam Crompton of L. Leav.r 23
from the parish registers for Ringley (St Saviour):
Adam Son of Adam Crompton of Little Lever Paperman & Alice his wife Bapt Decber 5th 1722.
Richard son of Adam Crompton of Little Lever Paperman & Alice his Wife Bapt November 5th 1726.
Assignment of Lease (1711/12 - 1729) (Lancashire Archives DDX 813/9):
Assignment of lease: for £90: for remainder of term of 99 years: Catherine Tildesley of Prestolee in Pilkington, widow, to Adam Crompton of Little Lever, paper maker - messuage, tenement and lands at Prestolee - leased by Eliz., Countess of Derby to Cath. Tildesley
Assignment in trust (10 December 1735 (Bolton Archives ZFL/6/12)):
Ralph Fletcher of Breightmet, yeoman (1), Adam Crompton of Little Lever, papermaker, and James Crawshaw of Little Lever, collier (2), John Andrews of Bolton, gent. (3), Nathaniel Mason of Breightmet, gent. (4) - messuage and tenement in Little Lever leased to Ralph Fletcher under the name of Ralph Fletcher of Whitefield, husbandman.
Adam’s will:
July the twentieth 1737.
In the name of God Amen I Adam Crompton of little Leaver in the County of Lancaster Papermaker being Indisposd of Body but of Perfect and Sound mind & memory thanks be to God for the same Revoking all other Will & Wills by me heretofore made do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following (viz) It is my Will and mind that Whereas I stand Possessed of a Messuage and Land & Premises thereunto belonging and a Tenement in Outwood and some Part in the Mill Call’d the higher Mill I do hereby make this my Will & Testament that after my funeral Expences probate of this my Will with all other my Lawful Debts being first Justly paid I do Leave and Bequeathe all my Lands Tenements and Personal Estate unto my Wife Alce Crompton Untill my son Heap shall arive at twenty one years of age if She shall Continue my Wife But after my Wifes Decease it is Mind and Will that the said Lands and Tenements and Mill be Equally Divided amongs my Children (viz) my son in law John Longworth my sons John Crompton Adam Crompton & Heap Crompton and that my said Children shall Receive twenty Pouns each from my said Estates to be Lawfully paid to them by my Executors hereafter mentiond when my Son Adam Crompton shall arive at the age of twenty one Years and it is my mind & will that if my Wife shall marry again or [incscary?] that then and in Such Case She Shall Receive only four Pounds a Year to be paid to her from the said Estates with a Chest of Drawers a Seeld Chest a Desk & twelve Peauter Plaits & the Bed we now Lie in and a Sield Chear and it is my Will and Mind that at my Wifes Decease or when ever She Shall marry again the s.d Lands & Tenements &c. so falling to my said Children that my said Land I do value at 400 pounds and that my son John Crompton shall have the first Liberty to buy or purchase the same at the Rate aforesaid but if he Refuse to purchase the same at the Rate afores.d then my son Adam shall have the same Liberty to purchase the s.d Land and if he shall Refuse the said John Longworth shall have the next Liberty to purchase the said Land as aforesaid and if he Refuse also I woud have the same to be sold and the same Equally Divided amongst my Children aforesaid and they shall all have the same Liberty to purchase my Tenement in Outwood and my par of the Mill also and if any of my said Children shall die in their minority that then their sd share so Dying shall go Equally amongst the Rast of the surviving Children and that the s.d Alce Crompton shall Receive one half of the s.d four Pounds a Year at the End of six months after my son Heap shall arive at 21 Years of age and the other half at the end of the next six months and so to Continue During her Life and Lastly I do nominate and appoint my Wife Alce Crompton to be sole Executor of this my last will and Testament untill my Son Adam shall arive at the age of 21 Years if she Continues My Wife so long afterwards my son John & Adam Crompton to be Executors of this my Last will and Testament Signed sealed and Declared in the Presence of us Joshua Crompton John Mills James Heyes
Adam [his A mark] Crompton [seal]
[Proved 7 August 1739]
References
Hoggenn, Pette. "Miscellanea Genealogica de Bolton-le-Moors" [website].
Lyddon, Denis and Peter A. Marshall. Paper in Bolton: A papermaker’s tale (1975).
Parish registers of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire (St Peter). Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 20 May 2020.
Parish registers of Ringley, Lancshire (St Saviour). Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 20 May 2020.
Will of Adam Crompton, papermaker of Little Leaver. Proved 7 August 1739 in the Consistory Court of Cheshire.