Mellor

The Glossop Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Stephen BURTON has a photograph of St. Thomas Churchyard on a foggy day on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2017.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Thomas Brierley's headstone on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2015.
   
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• Mike SPENCER also gives us a short list of Mellor Grave Stones in a text file for your review.
   

• The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Thomas.
   
• The ecclesiastical parish of St. Thomas was established in 1839.
   
• Stephen BURTON has a photograph of St Thomas Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018.
   
• The church was restored during the period of 1873-91.
   
• The church seats 350 (or 600 in 1912).
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Parish Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• A Mission Chapel was built near Marple Bridge in 1908 and dedicated to St. Sebastian.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1624 for burials, 1629 for baptisms and 1678 for marriages.
   
• Marjorie WARD has some register entries that might solve your needs.
   
• Marriages at Mellor, 1678-1775 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• Archer Software Batch Numbers for baptisms are C055601 (for 1787-1835) and for marriages M055602 (for 1678-1775).
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Glossop.
   
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1827.
   
• A Free (or United) Methodist chapel was built here in 1850.
   
• A Catholic Church was built in Marple Bridge in 1859 and dedicated to St. Mary.
   
• A Congregational Chapel was founded in Marple Bridgein 1662 and rebuilt in 1867.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.

"MELLOR, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, in the High Peak hundred, is two miles from Marple, six and a half from Glossop, eight from Chapel-en-le-Frith, seven from Stockport, and 14 from Manchester. The church, dedicated to St. James [Ed: this is incorrect - it is St. Thomas], which is of stone, is erected on a commanding situation, a short distance from the village: the Rev. Matthew Freeman enjoys the curacy for life: the gift of the living is in the Thornton family."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Mellor is 173 miles north of the city of London, separated from Cheshire by the River Goyt. Lucworth, Marple Bridge and Compstall Road hamlets are in this parish. Comstall Bridge is part of Cheshire.

Rowarth, about a mile from Mellor, is a hamlet in the same parish as that town, in Glossop dale.

Anthony O'NEIL has a photograph of the Golf Club entrance on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2018. The club is just south of Mellor in "Tarden".

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Mellor entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Mellor entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
   
• Also check the transcription of the Mellor entry from Kelly's Directory of the County of Derby (1912).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Mellor entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Mellor from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mellor to another place.

• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of your ancestors' round house on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• Much of the parish was given over to pasturage through the early 1900s.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the Royal Oak public House, Longhurst Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014. A popular spot for exchanging gossip and discussing local "characters".
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the The Devonshire Arms Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2015.
   
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Glossop, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes a portion on Mellor.

Mellor Hall is a country house completed around 1688 designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. The hall is a 2-storey building, with 7 bays on each floor.

Wyberslegh hall, now a farm house, is noted as the birth place of the notorious John BRADSHAW, who was president of the high court of justice which condemned King Charles I.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ985886 (Lat/Lon: 53.394111, -2.023577), Mellor which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Bill BOADEN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Longhurst Lane on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the War Memorial Cross on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   
• Rober MAY has a similar photograph of the War Memorial Cenotaph made of Portland Stone on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.
   
• David DIXON also has a photograph of the War Memorial Garden Arch on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014. The garden was dedicated in the 1920s and is just behind the War Memorial Cross.
   
• And, David DIXON has a photograph of the War Memorial Dedication plaque on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   
• David also has a photograph of the War Memorial Garden area on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.

The war memorial at Mellor is in the form of a granite stone cross set in a small memorial garden in the triangle of land bounded by Longhurst Lane, Parkside Lane and Old Hall Lane, erected in the 1920s. The base carries the names of those of Mellor who fell in the two world wars, and in the Korean War together with the following dedication:
 

"1914 - 1918
THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED
IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF MELLOR
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM.

Their name liveth for evermore"

A user reports that there is a grove of 20 trees planted in Mellor, one tree for each person who fell in World War One.

You can find photographs of the War Memorial and the list of names at the Mellor Local History Society website.

The names on the Cenotaph are:

1. 1914 - 1918 Cyril ATKINSON
2. Arthur BURGESS
3. Joseph BROUGH
4. Ernest BROUGH
5. Fred'r BURDEKIN
6. Frank BURDEKIN
7. Albert BRADLEY
8. Paul BRACHI
9. Fred CARTER
10. Charles B. DAVIDSON
11. Samuel DIXON
12. William ERNILL
13. David P. FITZMAURICE
14. Evelyn O. FURNISS
15. John GRIFFITHS
16. E. Douglas HELME
17. William JOHNSON
18. John LAYCOCK
19. Thomas F. MARSLAND
20. George MADDOCK
21. Robert NIELD
22. Thomas G. NAVEN
23. Percy OLDHAM
24. Joseph J. SIDEBOTHAM
25. Charles C SHAW
26. Alan SIGLEY
27. Fred'r W. SUTCLIFFE
28. Joseph H. WILD
29. Jas. E. WITHERS
30. Harry A. WAINWRIGHT
    
    1939 - 1945
31. Gilbert ASTIN
32. Donald BRADSHAW
33. Brendan H. FORDHAM
34. Raymond JOYCE
35. Cyril LAYCOCK
36. Frank O'CONNOR
37. Bryan REYNOLDS
38. Evan M SKELLEY
39. John WIGLEY
40. Lawrence J YEATES
    
    ------------ Korea 1950 - 1953
41. George David RUDGE

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Glossop parish in Derby county and was incorporated as a separate. modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1936, and all 2,362 acres amalgamated into Marple Civil Parish. This action re-assigned Mellor to Cheshire.
   
• John SLATER has a photograph of the Mellor Parish Centre on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• In 1818, the Rev. Francis GISBORNE established a charity of 30s. yearly for clothing for the poor.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Hayfield Poorlaw Union

An endowed school (mixed) was founded here in 1639. It was rebuilt in 1881 to hold 200 children.