Surnames (Mainly West Yorks)

[Oates]

West Yorkshire
Hopwood (also Durham for 1 generation)
Broadhead
Berry
Gledhill
Daltry/Dealtry
Lodge
Clark
Avison
Oates
Exley
Woodcock
Gaunt
Long
Firth
Lawton
Marsa
Blackburn
Man
Hardcastle
Howden
Shires

North Yorkshire
Hill
Ward (later West Yorks)
Swales

Durham
Newton
Alderton
Jobling

Rutland
Powlett

Lancashire
Pollard
Allen
Greenhalgh

Cheshire
Holmes (also Lancs and Ireland)

Middlesex
Chamberlain
Mitcham
Godfrey

Scotland
McDavid/McQuhae
Wilson

Ireland
Holmes

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Hi there :)

I don't suppose any of your WARD family is from Stainton Dale or Harwood Dale are they?

[Irene Hall]

Don't suppose you have a Lettice Hopwood b. around 1835 among your lot??


Irene :)

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Hi Irene :)

I don't know about Oates, but I don't have any HOPWOOD names at all.
I've got:
DENNISON
EMMERSON
LEGG
TATE
READMAN

[Oates]

Don't suppose you have a Lettice Hopwood b. around 1835 among your lot??


Irene :)

I've never come across a Lettice in any branch of the tree. My Hopwoods move around quite a lot. They don't move that far, but they move often. Sort of in the area between Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield and Doncaster. There're also a few in Durham. My ggg grandfather Hopwood was born in 1835. Lettice could possibly be a cousin of his but she's not his sister. Well, unless she died in infancy.

Hi there

I don't suppose any of your WARD family is from Stainton Dale or Harwood Dale are they?

I'm having trouble finding any Wards. The one I do have (John Chapman Ward) was born in Leeming, Bedale, NRY (it seems) and married in Whitby which isn't far from Stainton Dale and Harwood Dale so it's possible. His 10 children were born in various places in the North and West ridings.

[Irene Hall]

Oh darn! She was my great grand-mother on my mother's side. Married a John Lawton.

It was worth a shot.:)

Irene

[Oates]

Oh darn! She was my great grand-mother on my mother's side. Married a John Lawton.

It was worth a shot.:)

Irene

Now Lawtons I do have. Lawton was my grandfather's middle name and I now know it was his grandfather's first name and Lawton's mother's maiden name. I don't have many Lawtons as it was so far back but I don't suppose your John ties in with a Joseph Lawton b1785, wife Sarah Medley? They had 5 sons and 5 daughters all in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

[Irene Hall]

There maybe a connection somewhere.....but I'm finding the Lawtons are hard to trace

Where is Dewsbury in relation to Saddleworth?

I can only go back to a George Lawton b.about 1811 in Saddleworth - I think (not sure about that I need to access praish records). He ended up in Stalybridge Cheshire.

Irene

[Oates]

Saddleworth is around 25 miles away from Dewsbury. Joseph had a son William in 1812 but as far as I know Joseph didn't have any brothers so unless one of his sisters had George out of wedlock, they're probably not connected. At least not until a bit further back.

[Irene Hall]

Mmmmm! Bother! 25 miles is not that far - thou' in those days it would have been a finely long trip. Drat!:(

Anyone have access to parish records in Saddleworth who could do a lookup?

We need a begging smilie......

Irene

[Brenda from Essex]

Hi,
I have Frederick and Ellen Clark in West Yorkshire from 1869 to 1915 ish.
Also, James Gaunt m. Maud Whiteley in Armley, Leeds 1940 ( Maud, daughter of Mary Clark and John Henry Whiteley)
I also have a George Berry who lost his Mother and was brought up by my Gt Grandfather Harry Clark.
It would be great if any of this makes sense to you!
Brenda

[margarita]

West Yorkshire


Lancashire
Pollard
Allen
Greenhalgh



Do you have a Kathleen POLLARD b. 1819 or her father Maurice POLLARD in there anywhere?

Maggie