1811 CENSUS FOR MOSSLEY
This a rare surviving copy of an 1811 Census for Mossley, which I have been given permission to transcribe. Unlike the preceeding one for Ashton, the Mossley Census does not provide even approximate addresses, which is a great pity. Again the enumerator was given four columns to indicate whether the families were involved in farming, manufacturing, handicrafts or other trades. Manufacturing would have been mostly cotton spinning and handicrafts would likely have been hand loom weaving.
| Names | Trade | Males | Females |
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| James Lees | Shopkeeper | 2 | 0 |
| Mally Nield | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| John Clayton | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| John Kenworthy | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| Hambet Hilton sharing house above | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| James Taylor | Manufacturing | 1 | 3 |
| James Taylor sharing house above | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| Nathaniel Nield | Manufacturing | 1 | 3 |
| John Whitehead sharing house above | craft trade ? | 2 | 1 |
| H Wrigley | Manufacturing | 1 | 3 |
| Ann Hindley sharing house above | Manufacturing | 0 | 1 |
| Robert Shaw | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| William Buckley | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| William Park | Manufacturing | 3 | 1 |
| James Weir | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| Thomas Shuttleworth | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| Widow Schofield | Manufacturing | 5 | 6
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| John Buckley | Innkeeper | 4 | 6 |
| Edward Greaves | Shopkeeper | 4 | 5 |
| Betty Hyde | Manufacturing | 0 | 2 |
| Samuel Lee? | Manufacturing | 3 | 6 |
| James Ollivent? | Shopkeeper | 5 | 5 |
| Thomas Booth | Farming | 4 | 4 |
| Wiliam Newton | Shopkeeper | 0 | 1 |
| William Greaves | Shopkeeper | 3 | 3 |
| John Bromale/Bramall? | Farmer/Gentleman | 3 | 6 |
| John Naylor | Manufactuirng | 2 | 2 |
| Thomas Miller | Farming | 6 | 4 |
| James Whitworth | Farming | 1 | 7 |
| John Haig | Farming | 1 | 0 |
| William Wild | Farming | 5 | 1 |
| Betty Schofield | Farming | 1 | 1 |
| George Sydall | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| John Smith | Manufacturer | 3 | 3 |
| James Buckley | Shopkeeper | 3 | 5 |
| Samuel Garside | Farmer | 4 | 4 |
| James Meadowcroft | Farmer | 1 | 1 |
| Miles Schofield | Craft Trade ? | 5 | 6 |
| Samuel Hindley | Farmer | 2 | 3 |
| Ann Knott | Craft Trade | 1 | 5 |
| Samuel Pay? | Farmer | 6 | 8 |
| ? Robertson | Manufacturing | 4 | 3 |
| Joseph Buckley | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| John Wrigley | Craft trade ? | 5 | 2 |
| Miles Schofield | Craft Trade ? | 2 | 1 |
| James Hindley | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 1 |
| Jarvis Hindley, same house as above | Craft Trade ? | 3 | 1 |
| Thomas Mitchell | Craft Trade ? | 3 | 2 |
| Ben Kay | Craft Trade ? | 2 | 8 |
| William Morton | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 2 |
| Miss Charlton | Craft Trade | 0 | 2 |
| John Whitehead | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 2 |
| Abraham Lees | Shopkeeper | 1 | 1 |
| Joseph Kenworthy | Manufacturing | 7 | 2 |
| John Harrison | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Edmund Buckley | Manufacturing | 6 | 3 |
| George Robinson | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| John Ogden | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| Joseph Carter | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| Jonathan Miles | Manufacturing | 5 | 5 |
| James Bottomley | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Ashton | Manufacturing | 5 | 4 |
| John Morxxxxx | Manufacturer | 1 | 2 |
| Samuel? Schofield | Innkeeper | 1 | 4 |
| James Wrigley | Manufacturing | 4 | 0 |
| John Rhodes | Manufacturing | 4 | 6 |
| William Schofield | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| Joseph Bulkeley | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| Hugh Hague | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| John Sykes | Manufacturing | 4 | 3 |
| James Lawton | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| Abraham Howard | Manufacturing | 1 | 3 |
| George Lawton | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| George Alice | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| George Winterbottom | Manufacturing | 3 | 1 |
| John Buckley | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| Nathaniel Bottomley | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| William Schofield | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 2 |
| Joseph Lees | Manufacturing | 5 | 3 |
| George Walker | Manufacturing | 4 | 2 |
| Harold Whitehead | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| James Hill, same house as above | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| Sarah Walker | Manufacturing | 1 | 3 |
| James Wild | Manufacturing | 6 | 4 |
| Thomas Gillmore | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| Samuel Hague | Manufacturing | 5 | 3 |
| Jonathan? Dyson | Manufacturing | 4 | 2 |
| Robert Smith | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 2 |
| James Lees | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| William Por? | Manufacturing | 5 | 3 |
| David Coopland | Manufacturing | 4 | 4 |
| Isaac Bredbury | Manufacturing | 2 | 5 |
| ? Blackburn | Manufacturing | 5 | 5 |
| John Kenworthy | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| Ian Price | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| John Knott | Shopkeeper | 1 | ? |
| William Buckley | Manufacturing | 5 | 3 |
| George Luck | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| William Nield | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| John Dean | Manufacturing | 5 | 1 |
| George Robinson | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| Thomas Barber | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| Nelly Helm | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| William Buckley | Manufacturing | 4 | 1 |
| Thomas Mayor | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| Paul Andrew | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| James Wrigley | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| John Wild | Manufacturing | 2 | 4 |
| Joseph Cocker | Shopkeeper | 2 | 4 |
| George Booth | Manufacturing | 5 | 4 |
| John Ogden | Farming | 1 | 1 |
| Walter Street | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| James Chapman | Shopkeeper | 3 | 4 |
| Widow Ratcliffe | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Ann Brierley | Manufacturing | 0 | 2 |
| Ann Harrison | Manufacturing | 0 | 4 |
| Richard Wilkinson | Craft Trade ? | 2 | 1 |
| Joseph Miles | Craft Trade ? | 1 | 6 |
| Daniel Wild | Craft Trade ? | 4 | 2 |
| Daniel Waterhouse | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| John Bastie | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| James Mason | Manufacturing | 9 | 1 |
| George Webb | Manufacturing | 1 | 6 |
| Harold Bramall | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| William Miles | Drapers | 3 | 4 |
| Thomas Booth | Butcher | 1 | 1 |
| John Kershaw | ? | 2 | 5 |
| Benjamin? Mayall | Shopkeeper | 2 | 1 |
| Benjamin Mellor | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| Ann Harrison | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Joseph Newton | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| Sarah Lythgoe | Carft Trade ? | 1 | 1 |
| John Roylance | Tinman | 3 | 5 |
| Abraham Wild | Manufacturing | 2 | 1 |
| James Shaw | Shopkeeper | 1 | 2 |
| Joseph Kenworthy | Innkeeper | 3 | 5 |
| Joshua Platt | Manufacturing | 5 | 4 |
| John Buckley | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Abraham Lees | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| James Marsland | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| William Marsland | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| Thomas Lee | Manufacturing | 2 | 5 |
| John Hully | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| Robert Taylor | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| John Whitworth | Shopkeeper | 5 | 2 |
| James Buckley | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| H Cooke | Manufacturing | 4 | 5 |
| Joseph Buckley | Farmer | 3 | 5 |
| John Hully | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| James Brookes | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| Harold Brookes | Manufacturing | 0 | 1 |
| John Beswick | Manufacturing | 3 | 2 |
| John Buckley | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Adam Whitworth | Manufacturing | 4 | 4 |
