Odd Rode, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Odd Rode, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ODD-RODE All Saints, or sometimes called Rode, is a hamlet, a township, and a chapelry in Astbury parish, Cheshire. The hamlet lies on the Macclesfield canal, and on the North Staffordshire railway, under Mowcop mountain, it is ½ a mile S by W of Mowcop railway station, 1 miles W of the boundary with Staffordshire, and 3½ miles S S W of Congleton. The township contains also the hamlets of Rode-Heath, Scholar-Green , Kent-Green , Thurlwood , and Hall-Green , and part of the village of Mowcop ; and its post town is Lawton, under Stoke-on-Trent. The chapelry is somewhat less extensive than the township, and a chapel of ease was built by the year 1808--when its church registers commence; it was constituted a chapelry in 1860. The Wesleyan chapels are at Hall-Green and Mowcop.

The ecclesiastical parish of Odd Rode was created in 1864 when the Wilbraham Family of Rode Hall completed All Saints Church in Scholar Green. The parish became a civil administrative area shortly after but before this the area formed part of the ancient and large parish of Astbury. Chapel registers commence from 1809.

Odd Rode is a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred, and includes the hamlets of The Bank, Boarded Barn, Brake Village, Cinder Hill, Firclose, Hall Green (part), Kent Green, Little Moss (part), Mount Pleasant, Mow Cop (partly in Staffordshire), Mow Hollow, Old House Green, Pat Bank, Rode Heath, Scholar Green, Spring Bank, Stone Chair, Towns End, Thurlwood, Whartons Pool.

Church records
Odd Rode parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Mow Cop, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1841, rebuilt in 1883, closed in 1964.
 * Hall Green, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1874.
 * Kent Green, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Founded 1873, Built in 1892.
 * Thurlwood, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1885, closed in 1963.
 * Mount Pleasant, Methodist Chapel (Free).

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)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998+)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Odd Rode on GENUKI