Mowcop, Staffordshire Family History Guide

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Mowcop is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1843 from Wolstanton Ancient Parish, Keele Ecclesiastical Parish, Hanford Ecclesiastical Parish and Biddulph Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Mowcop, Mow Cop, Molecop

Parish registers begin: 1842

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Mowcop, or Molecop, a village in Wolstanton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Biddulph parish, Stafford. The village stands under Molecop Hill, adjacent to the boundary with Cheshire, and near the Macclesfield, Norton-Bridge, and Colwich railway, 3 ¾ miles S by E of Congleton; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent.

The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop. In 1861, 2,135. Houses, 453. Pop. of the Wolstanton portion, 1,797. Houses, 386. The property is much subdivided. Molecop Hill rises to the altitude of 1,091 feet. Many of the inhabitants are employed in pottery-works. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £162. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern. There are dissenting chapels and public schools.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

Online School Records

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Mow Cop Wesleyan School 1897 to 1914 Admissions

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England, Staffordshire, Mowcop – Church history ( 3 )
The centenary of Primitive Methodism
Author: Birchenough, Albert A.

From Mow Cop to Peake, 1807-1932 : essays to commemorate the one hundred & seventy fifth anniversary of the beginnings of Primitive Methodism, May 1982

Primitive Methodist Church centenary celebration, May 25th, 1907 : souvenir and program of the camp meetings and other services

England, Staffordshire, Mowcop – Church records ( 2 )
England, Staffordshire, Mowcop, parish registers : St. Thomas, 1875-1902
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mowcop (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

Parish registers for Mowcop, 1842-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mowcop (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Mowcop – History ( 1 )
A short history of Mow Cop
Author: Harper, W. J.

England, Staffordshire, Mowcop – Schools ( 1 )
England, Staffordshire, Mowcop, school records, 1897-1914
Author: Staffordshire County Record Office

Administration

  • County: Staffordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Congleton; Wolstanton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Newcastle under Lyme
  • Poor Law Union: Stone, Wolstanton and Burslem, Congleton
  • Hundred: North Pirehill
  • Province: Canterbury