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West Yorkshire Map and “Kirklees Cousins” family origins
West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
Maps West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen District 1841, 1903
Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
Maps Dewsbury
Images
Living History Photographs
Historic Photographs of Earlsheaton
Historic Photographs of Mirfield
Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
Photographs of Dewsbury
Places
Almondbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
Earlsheaton History and Family Connections
Halifax
Kirkheaton
Mirfield
Ossett
Thornhill
Upper Hopton
Wakefield
Wills
Archer
John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
John Archer the Elder, Ossett, Will dated 1757
Sheard
Thomas Sheard of Ovenden, Will of 1565
Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield Will written on 23 June 1632
Thomas Sheard of Mirfield (1620-1671) Family and Will
Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
Will of William Land, Yeoman, of Horbury 1575-1647
Social History
Are You Mad?
Child Labour and the Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
Hemingway
Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
Archer/Wilson
Medieval Archery and the Archers of Ossett
A Case of Industrial Espionage?
George Archer and the Bantams
George Archer at Passchendaele
Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
On Education
Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Sheard/Bottom
16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
Ancient & Medieval
Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes (updated 2022)
Christianity comes to Northumbria (2020)
Medieval Yorkshire (Updated and extended 2020)
The Grey Apple Tree (Script of Battle of Hastings 1066)
Plague in West Yorkshire
Wars of the Roses
Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
Civil War
West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
First English Civil War Events in 1643
Civil War Years 1644-48
Aftermath of the Civil War
The Farnley Wood Plot
The Wool Trade
The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
Shoddy and Mungo
Yorkshire Coal
History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire
The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
Miscellany
Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
The Fozzards
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Home
About
Who do you think you are?
Maps
West Yorkshire Map and “Kirklees Cousins” family origins
West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
Maps West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen District 1841, 1903
Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
Maps Dewsbury
Images
Living History Photographs
Historic Photographs of Earlsheaton
Historic Photographs of Mirfield
Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
Photographs of Dewsbury
Places
Almondbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
Earlsheaton History and Family Connections
Halifax
Kirkheaton
Mirfield
Ossett
Thornhill
Upper Hopton
Wakefield
Wills
Archer
John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
John Archer the Elder, Ossett, Will dated 1757
Sheard
Thomas Sheard of Ovenden, Will of 1565
Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield Will written on 23 June 1632
Thomas Sheard of Mirfield (1620-1671) Family and Will
Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
Will of William Land, Yeoman, of Horbury 1575-1647
Social History
Are You Mad?
Child Labour and the Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
Hemingway
Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
Archer/Wilson
Medieval Archery and the Archers of Ossett
A Case of Industrial Espionage?
George Archer and the Bantams
George Archer at Passchendaele
Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
On Education
Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Sheard/Bottom
16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
Ancient & Medieval
Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes (updated 2022)
Christianity comes to Northumbria (2020)
Medieval Yorkshire (Updated and extended 2020)
The Grey Apple Tree (Script of Battle of Hastings 1066)
Plague in West Yorkshire
Wars of the Roses
Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
Civil War
West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
First English Civil War Events in 1643
Civil War Years 1644-48
Aftermath of the Civil War
The Farnley Wood Plot
The Wool Trade
The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
Shoddy and Mungo
Yorkshire Coal
History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire
The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
Miscellany
Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
The Fozzards
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