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New England Historic Genealogical Society; Founded: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. (1845 (), as the New England Historic-Genealogical Society) [1] Founders: Charles Ewer (1790–1853) Lemuel Shattuck (1793–1859) Samuel Gardner Drake (1798–1875) William Henry Montague (1804–1889) John Wingate Thornton (1818–1878) Type: Genealogical society ...
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield.
Of those aged 16–74 in Stockport, 25.7% had no academic qualifications, lower than 28.9% in all of England. [16] 5.0% of Stockport's residents were born outside the United Kingdom, significantly lower than the national average of 9.2%. [19] The largest minority group was recorded as Asian, at 2.1% of the population. [20]
Edward Weld (1741–1775) by Pompeo Batoni Cardinal Thomas Weld (1773–1837), by Andrew Geddes. Edward Weld was the third and first surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth, son of William Weld, and the grandnephew of Humphrey Weld MP, [19] (purchaser in 1641 of the vast Lulworth Estate, who had died without a male heir), and of his wife Margaret Simeons, daughter of Sir James ...
Stockport was a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire from 1894 to 1904. The district was the successor to the Stockport Rural Sanitary District formed in 1875. The rural district was originally composed of eight civil parishes (with population in 1891): Bosden (2,342)
Stockport Etchells existed as a township in the parish of Stockport from the Middle Ages. [2] In 1866, Stockport Etchells became a separate civil parish, [3] and in 1910 merged with Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley to form the Cheadle and Gatley Urban District and parish. [1] [4] In 1921, the parish had a population of 2,191. [5]
Stockport; Stockport CB within Cheshire in 1970: Area • 1911: 5,488 acres (22.21 km 2) • 1961: 8,440 acres (34.2 km 2) Population • 1901: 92,832 • 1971: 139,598: History • Created: 1835 • Abolished: 1974 • Succeeded by: Metropolitan Borough of Stockport: Status: Municipal borough 1835–1889 County borough 1889–1974: Government ...
The Cheadle and Gatley local government district was created in 1886. It was administered by an elected local board. The district covered the parts of the township of Cheadle that were not within the municipal borough boundaries of Stockport, plus the township of Stockport Etchells, which was a detached part of the parish of Stockport in which the main settlement was Gatley.