Principal sources

Records

At Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Records of local authorities, especially Alsager Urban District Council and its predecessors

Ordnance Survey maps, Cheshire VII sheets at 25” to the mile, 1875-1908

Sale papers and plans of Alsager estate, 1876

At the National Archives

Finance Act 1910 field books, IR 58/24153-24160

At Stoke on Trent City Archives

Minutes of the Burslem and Tunstall Freehold Land Society

Online

Census returns at ancestry.co.uk

Local newspapers at britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Historical Ordnance Survey maps, especially 25” to the mile, at maps.nls.uk

Historical directories at Leicester University Library

Potters and potteries

Books

Alsager: the Place and its People, ed. James C. Sutton, 1999

The Buildings of England: Cheshire, ed. Hartwell, Hyde, Hubbard and Pevsner, 2011

The History of Alsager School, Lindsay Purcell, 2020

The Alehouses and Alehouse-keepers of Cheshire, 1629-1826, A. J. MacGregor, 1992

Old Cheshire Churches, Raymond Richards, 1973

Alsager in the Great War: a social and military history Rob Blaney, 2016

Alsager and District in the Second World War: a social and military history Rob Blaney, 2017

Dudson: a family of potters since 1800, Audrey M. Dudson 1985

A Pottery Panorama: Dudson Bicentenary 1800-2000, Audrey M. Dudson

William Henry Goss: the story of the Staffordshire family who invented heraldic porcelain, Lynda and Nicholas Pine, 1987

Orphan to Pottery Manufacturer: the story of a family business over four generations, J. S. Weatherby and C. S. Weatherby, 2019