Mosley of Hough End. Edward Mosley,-Margaret, dau. of Alexander Elcock died 1571. Sir Nicholas Mosley Knt.;-Margaret, dau. Oswald. TOWNSHIP OF BURNAGE. This small township lies five miles south-south-east from Manchester, and includes the hamlets of Green End and Lady Barn, the former probably deriving its name from its verdure as contrasted with the surrounding neighbourhood, and the latter of uncertain derivation, said to take its name from the erection of a barn or grange by Lady Anne Bland, but in reality so designated as early as 1638, in which year John and Thomas Shalcross of Ladie Barn pledge themselves to the payment of £2 3s. due to the minister of Didsbury, and even earlier, in the will of Sir Nicholas Mosley dated 1612. Burnage is bounded on the north by Withington, Rusholme and Levenshulme; on the south by Didsbury and Heaton Norris ; on the east by Heaton Norris; and on the west by Withington. Its area, according to Rickman's computation in the Census Returns of 1831, is 610 acres; according to the Tithe Commissioners in their return of 1851, 658 acres; the Ordnance Survey makes it 666a. Or. 29p.; and Messrs. Johnson 677 acres. Its name is anciently written Brownegge, Brownage, Brownedge, Bromwich and Bromage, and its etymology is a disputable point; Bran, braun, brun, bourn signifying a rivulet or stream, and also a boundary or limit:- Brin, brind, brand, bur, burn from brennen (German) or Bernan (Saxon) signifies also to burn, hence the word brand, a piece of burning wood. The latter syllable in the word signifies in the Anglo-Saxon a brink, margin or extremity. In the extent or survey of the manor of Manchester, taken in the 15 Edward II. (1322), it is stated that "in Brownegge there are 356 acres of pasture in common for the tenants of Heton [Norris] and Withington; nevertheless the lord may appropriate to himself 136 acres of pasture there, worth thirty-four shillings, at three pence per acre, besides a sufficiency of pasture for those commons which |