Place:Moorside, Lancashire, England

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source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There is also a hamlet named Moor Side in the civil parish of Treales Roseacre and Wharles in the Borough of Fylde near Blackpool.

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Moorside is a suburb of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

It is located in the north east of the ancient township [of Oldham] in a semi rural locality bordering Saddleworth, contiguous with Sholver which lies to the west.

In common with many other districts of Oldham, Moorside saw considerable expansion in the mid 19th century. This was in the main due to the efforts of industrialist Thomas Mellodew & Sons. The Mellodews of Moorside were textile manufacturers (velvet) and had a number of mills in the Moorside area.

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Research Tips

• Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
• FS Lancashire Research Wiki
• GENUKI references for Oldham. St Thomas's Church in Moorside established 1860
• A description of Oldham with a few references to Moorside, from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
• A map of Lancashire circa 1888 (before the existence of rural and urban districts) supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• The Lancashire Rootsweb page includes a list of webpages produced by family historians with connections in the county. Some of these pages may no longer exist.
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