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Yorkshire Surnames List -December 2023 update
Surnames added this month: EGLIN HOPWOOD HOUSLEY If you would like to add your surname(s) to the list, please use the form at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/submit.htm *_**PLEASE
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Lin Duke
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Re: Giggleswick place name
Thanks all Yes it¡¯s Ackworth, just outside Giggleswick. Jennifer sent a link to an old map that is on GENUKI Thank you all for your input. Jane
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Jane Lucas
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Re: Giggleswick place name
It is sometimes worth a search in the newspaper archive for a place name, there will be lots of transcriptions but it might find somewhere that is not in map gazetteer. If there is a good HER
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Martin Briscoe (W10 laptop)
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Re: Giggleswick place name
Do you think it should read Ackworth which is near Pontefract. Hilary Jackson [email protected]> wrote:
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Hilary Jackson
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Re: Giggleswick place name
Ackworth does seem likely (not to be confused with the parish of that name, near Pontefract). This link should show side by side maps (old and modern) with Ackworth in the middle:
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Arthur K <kengen@...>
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Re: Giggleswick place name
North Yorkshire Record office used to have a good collection of old maps on their website but I can no longer find them. The best collection of old maps is on the NLS website. https://maps.nls.uk/
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Martin Briscoe (W10 laptop)
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Re: Giggleswick place name
It could be an area around the church,as it has the same name.
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jacqueline appleby
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Re: Giggleswick place name
Thank you so much for that. I missed that map. ¡®Ackworth¡¯ is definitely correct. A survey of English Placenames gives the historical form as Ac(k)with 1645 WillY 1771 M . from the Latin for
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Jane Lucas
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Re: Giggleswick place name
I read Akewith. There is an Ackworth on old maps. https://www.genuki.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/colin_hinson/YKS/WRY/Photographs/Maps/Giggleswick.png
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Jennifer Crockett
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Giggleswick place name
Hello I have a baptism for ¡®Adam son of Thomas Wilson Akewith¡¯ 26 May 1715 St. Alkelda's Church, Giggleswick. I can¡¯t find any place name ¡®Akewith¡¯ only Austwick, which is a parish
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Jane Lucas
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Thank you for your reply. My records show the GREAVES / DUCKITT farm was in Braithwaite near Kirk Bramwith in 1766. Maybe I need to contact Doncaster Archives to see if they have info about ownership
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Margaret Shearing
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Thank you for your? knowledge of the? area especially? the advice for driving? there. I shall? remember that? and the two people who sadly? lost their? lives. Best wishes Margaret
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Margaret Shearing
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Presumably the largest farm in Braithwaite was that associated with a house later known as Braithwaite Hall. This was owned from the 16th century to around 1750 by a well recorded Quaker family called
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Chris Pitt Lewis
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
This Historic England entry for Hermitage Farmhouse https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314829 shows several additional 'farms' on the map around Braithwaite. If you have
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Kelvin
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Hi Andrew & Margaret, The farms you mentioned are actually situated in ¡®Thorpe in Balne¡¯, my family lived at ¡®Spring Acre Farm¡¯ from 1966 until around the mid 70¡¯s, but we shortened the name
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John Woolsey
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Re: Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Sickle Croft Farm Spring Acre Farm kirk bramwith farms - Google Search (
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Andrew Loughran
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Advice please (re: Kirk Bramwith & Braithwaite)
Hi My ancestor William GREAVES lived at a farm in Braithwaite near Kirk Bramwith, from about 1776 when he married a young widow, Ann DUCKETT, (maiden name WAITE) until he died in 1807. Their children
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Margaret Shearing
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Yorkshire Surnames List - November update
Just one surname added this month: GAVIN If you would like to add your surname(s) to the list, please use the form at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/submit.htm *_**PLEASE READ THE
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Lin Duke
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Re: Placing out meaning
Placed out to me would mean they were living with their employers Andy ________________________________ Sent: 20 November 2023 16:22 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [yorksgen]
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Andy Kerridge
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