Mossley, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Mosley, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MOSSLEY, a chapelry in Astbury parish, Cheshire; on the river Dane, adjacent to Staffordshire and to the North Staffordshire railway, 1½ mile E of Congleton. It was constituted in 1846. Post town, Congleton.

Church Records
Mossley Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Mossley was chapelry in Astbury, created parish 1858.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for Mossley (near Congleton), 1845-1886 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P213/1/12, P213/2/1-4.

Baptisms, 1845-1886.

Bishop's transcripts for Mossley, 1857-1891

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Congleton (1837-1937)
 * Macclesfield (1937-74)
 * Congleton & Crewe (1974-88)
 * South Cheshire (1988-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Congleton

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

See also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.