Godley cum Newton Green St John the Baptist Cheshire Family History Guide
Godley cum Newton Green St John the Baptist is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1847 from Mottram in Longendale Ancient Parish and Newton in Mottram Ecclesiastical Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Newton Green.
Ecclesiastical Parishes created from Godley cum Newton Green St John the Baptist parish includes:
- Hattersley Ecclesiastical Parish was created in 1966
Alternative names: Godley
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1847
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Godley cum Newton Green Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Godley cum Newton Green St John the Baptist, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1847-1909
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Godley cum Newton Green St John the Baptist, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1850-1906
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GODLEY, a township and a chapelry in Mottram parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the verge of the county, at a junction of railways, adjacent to Hyde, 3 miles SSE of Ashton-under-Lyne; and has a station at the railway junction. Acres, 639. Real property, £6,059; of which £25 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 1,353; in 1861, 1,185. Houses, 236. The decrease of pop. was occasioned by discontinuance of employment in cotton mills. The manor was held, in the time of King John, by the family of Godleigh; and belongs now to the Tollemaches.
The chapelry bears the name of Godley-cum-Newton-Green; and was constituted in 1847. Post town, Newton-Moor, under Manchester. Pop., 2,209. Houses, 435. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £200. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1850.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Ashton under Lyne
- Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
- Rural Deanery: Macclesfield
- Poor Law Union: Ashton Under Lyne
- Hundred: Macclesfield
- Province: York
