This link should take you to: “History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire†, William White, Sheffield, 1851
and the page for Rowley. This gives the names and occupations of a lot of inhabitants of Rowley and surrounding villages.
There's a nice discription of bull baiting, if thats your thing!
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyga ... 3/mode/2up