Mowcop, Staffordshire Family History Guide
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 church:
Parish registers begin: 1842
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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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].
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Online School Records
School records are a primary source for genealogists. The two types of records that are commonly available are admission registers and log books.
The admission registers of schools may be available from the 1870s, but more frequently from 1902. Usually shown under the date of entry, is the child’s name and address and his or her date of birth. Some registers, but not all, may also show the name and occupation of the parent or guardian, the name of the previous school attended and the reason for leaving.
For immigrant children the name of the previous school may uniquely provide the pupil’s exact place of origin.
These admission registers may enable the brothers and sisters of a pupil to be identified in a way that, with frequent names, would be difficult if not impossible from the civil registration records.
The log book may contain comments on the attendance of pupils, behaviour, discipline, the curriculum, attendance of teachers and absence for sickness etc., and the effect of epidemics and seasonal work on attendance. The names of individual pupils only occasionally appear in log books. The names and status of the teachers were recorded at the annual inspection, with a summary of the inspector’s report.
The following school records are available from Findmypast
Mow Cop Wesleyan School 1897 to 1914 Admissions
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