In 1618 Lees consisted of 1060 acres and was at the extreme northeast tip of the large ecclesiastical parish of St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-under-Lyne. By 1830 there were 3,827 inhabitants and in 1835 it became a chapelry in Ashton-under-Lyne parish. I actually don't know the date that it became part of Oldham, so perhaps someone will be able to tell me. Some of the addresses on the following surviving 1811 census fragment are also a little hard to read; Newroad Lane and Nimble Nook, so perhaps Lees historians could also help with these. The enumerator was asked to identify whether families were employed chiefly in farming, manufacturing, craft trades or other. I found it rather surprising how many families were sharing some of the properties
| Names | Trade | Males | Females |
|---|
| John Dyson, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 11 |
| John Scholefield, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 7 | 8 |
| Samuel Bennet, Lees | Manufacturing | 6 | 5 |
| Nathaniel Welch, Lees | Manufacturing | 6 | 1 |
| Ache? Blair, Lees. Six Families | Manufacturing | 9 | 12 |
| Thomas Kershaw, Lees | Craft Trade ? | 5 | 6 |
| Lawrence Law, Lees | Manufacturing | 9 | 4 |
| John Wilde, Lees | Manufacturing | 5 | 1 |
| Peter Ormrod, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 5 |
| Robert Lees, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 3 |
| John Bennett, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 6 |
| Joseph Winterbottom, Lees. Three Families | Manufacturing | 5 | 12 |
| James Lees, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 7 |
| Joseph Buckley, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 2 | 10 |
| John Hindley, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 6 | 12 |
| John Heywood, Lees | Manufacturing | 8 | 1 |
| James Halkyard, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| Thomas Booth, Lees | Other | 4 | 1 |
| John Kershaw, Lees. Two Families | Manufacturing | 5 | 5 |
| Samuel Mellor, Lees | Other | 6 | 3 |
| James Dunkerley, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 6 |
| Joseph Jackson, Hey | Manufacturing | 2 | 3 |
| James Heywood, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| William Weight, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 7 | 5 |
| Isaac Hartley, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 5 |
| Hannah Booth, Hey | Other | 0 | 5 |
| John Mayall, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| William Plat/Plant? Hey Clough | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| James Tenant, Hey Chapel | Other | 6 | 2 |
| Widow Wrigley, Hey Chapel. Two Families | Other | 4 | 6 |
| James Lees, Hey Chapel, Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 7 |
| Benjamin Knight, Hey. Two families | Manufacturing | 6 | 6 |
| Benjamin Beaumont, Hey. Two Families | Other | 2 | 2 |
| Henry Haughton, Hey. Two Families | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| John Lees, Hey | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| Robert Platt, Sharpe Lane. Two Families | Manufacturing | 8 | 4 |
| John Gartside, Sharpe lane. Two Families | Manufacturing | 4 | 6 |
| Samuel Kershaw, Green | Manufacturing | 6 | 6 |
| Miles Mayall, Green. Two families | Manufacturing | 5 | 4 |
| Enoch Heywood, Green | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| Joseph Dale, Green | Other | 5 | 5 |
| John Gartside, Dove Coat | Manufacturing | 6 | 2 |
| John Sevill, Austerlands | Manufacturing | 6 | 5 |
| Widow Lees, Austerlands | Other | 0 | 2 |
| John Wrigley, Austerlands | Other | 2 | 1 |
| Joseph Whitehead, Birks | Craft Trade | 2 | 3 |
| Joseph Stansfield, Birks. Three Familes | Manufacturing | 6 | 5 |
| Jonathan Bower, Birks | No Occupation | 4 | 3 |
| John Dawson, Birks | Manufacturing | 3 | 4 |
| William Russell, Birks | No Occupation | 7 | 3 |
| Thomas Chadwick, Birks | Manufacturing | 5 | 3 |
| Sarah Hutchinson, Birks | Manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| James Lees, Birks | Manufacturing | 4 | 5 |
| Groves Holt, Birks. Two Families | Manufacturing | 7 | 6 |
| Edmund Whittaker, Birks | No Occupation | 2 | 2 |
| Joseph Thorp, Birks | Manufacturing | 1 | 6 |
| Simeon Lord, Nimble Nook | Manufacturing | 1 | 2 |
| William Jackson, Hollins | Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| Neddy Halkyard, New Road Lane. Two Families | Manufacturing | 7 | 5 |
| John Lees, New Road Lane, Four Families | Manufacturing | 11 | 9 |
| John Morning?, Mill | Manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| John Wrigley, Mill. Five Families | Manufacturing | 6 | 9 |
| Henry Wormald, Mill, Four Families | Manufacturing | 12 | 11 |
| Widow Lees, Cross Bank | Other | 2 | 2 |
| John Wrigley, Cross Bank | Manufacturing | 1 | 5 |
| Abraham Hilton, Cross Bank | Manufacturing | 6 | 4 |
