Godley cum Newton Green, Cheshire Family History Guide

Godley cum Newton Green 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.

Alternative names: Godley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1847
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

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].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cheshire, Godley – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Godley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Godley – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Godley, 1847-1872
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Godley (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers for Godley-cum-Newton Green, 1847-1948
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Godley (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Godley – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Godley, 1784-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Macclesfield hundred, 1784-1787, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Godley – Voting registers ( 2 )
England, Cheshire, Newton Township voters rolls and occupier’s lists, 1910-1938
Author: Hyde (Cheshire : Borough); Greater Manchester County Record Office

England, Lancashire, Godley Township register of electors and occupier’s lists, 1910-1922
Author: Godley Township (Chester, England); Manchester Archives Central Library

Maps

Vision of Britain historical 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