Hi Everyone I want to introduce myself. I am Jan (usually in Bronte Country), occasionally a little further afield. I co-listed the Bradford List with Elaine from the onset, we see it as our 'baby' BUT Elaine, had so little interests in this area, she decided to have one or two other small lists and go back to her beloved Sheffield, where she is Co-List owner, and I might add where we first met, my Fathers family coming from Sheffield. She was my inspiration with my Sheffield ancestors, as I did not know too much about the area. I also found out there was and OPC required for the Keighley area, so I have just offered to take it , as I love the place as I like remember it, before modernisation. I have lots of books, information, postcards, photographs old and new. I am more than happy to take any photographs listers are interested in...............just ask!! I would invite each one of you to introduce yourself again, giving the place you now live and tell us of at least one person you are seeking at the moment. A little about that person and the places they lived, that way, we all learn from each other. One-place-study mailing list One-place-study@british-genealogy.com http://www.british-genealogy.com/mailman/listinfo/one-place-study I see there are a 150 subscribed to the Bradford list, which is a nice number although it is always nice to have others. The Bradford List encompasses the whole of the BD area, which many of you will know goes to Skipton and Beyond, and many villages between Keighley & Bradford. I have the following names in my ancestry moving the Keighley, West Yorkshire in the mid 1800's from various places. WOOLLEY Devon/Cornwall - Bingley & Keighley CLEWER Worcs - Bingley & Keighley HOPKINS Gloucs - Bingley & Keighley SAUNDERS Beds - Keighley At the moment I am transcribing the Methodist circuit BMD's along with a couple of friends and I am almost through transcribing the 1891 census Workhouse and Infirmary entry for Keighley, which I will post as soon as it is proof read. In the next few weeks, I am hoping to get a web site up and running for Keighley & Bradford......and would welcome any help & additions any of you can give. Warmest Wishes Jan in Bronte Country List admin ENG-YKS-Bradford. List admin Clewer surname OPC- Keighley-one-place-study. McAFEE daily update.

I am responding to the invitation to introduce myself on the Bradford list. My only known connection is that my great grandfather, William Nowell lived in Bradford with his wife Katy (Kathleen, Catherine??) at the time of the 1881 Census. My source told me he was a "traveller in stuffs". I expect this means he was a salesman who sold cloth to the retail trade. Eventually they had three children, one of whom was my grandmother, Eveline Nowell. Then it is alleged that William divorced Katy (?) and she went home to Dublin leaving the children (as women had to in those days). He remarried. (According to the family story, his new wife was the daughter of Honorius Lazurus Pointin). No one has found a record of the divorce or remarriage. Perhaps they lived in Bradford only for a little while. Someone suggested that if there was no divorce, that maybe the answer was that Katy went into an asylum and died there - perhaps there were endings more socially unacceptable even than divorce. My grandmother Eveline eventually was/became a member of the Plymouth Bretheren, and married my grandfather, Leonard Brown who was also a member of the Bretheren. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html

Hi everyone Reposting my names of interest from the Bradford area and a bit beyond: BARTLE - Bradford/Wike area - C19 (later in Leeds) BULLOCH - Kildwick - C18 CRAVEN - Calverley - C18-19 (later in Leeds) DRIVER - Bingley (Morton) - C18 EMMOTT - Kildwick - C18 HEBDEN - Bingley - C18 HIRST - Honley/Meltham/Huddersfield area - C19 (earlier in Badsworth) HUTCHINSON - Kildwick - pre 1850 KELLETT - Wike/Wibsey - pre 1850 SMITH - Kildwick - C19 STIRK - Kildwick - pre 1820 STOW - Kildwick - pre 1860 & Bradford - post 1850 TAYLOR - Kildwick - C18 WATSON - Bingley (Morton) - pre 1825 WILKINSON - Bingley (Morton) - pre 1870 Some of my ancestry can be seen online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~arthurk/ ; I'd be pleased to hear from anyone who may be connected, and to share further details. Thanks to those who have already shared their information with me. Arthur Kennedy

Welcome, Jan. Great to see such activity on the list again.I am researching mainly BENTHAM. Will post full interests shortly but need help meanwhile re an1843 inquest. My gggfather Thomas Bentham,weaver, lived in Thornton, Bradford & died between 1841 and 1851 censuses. I have a death cert (the only Thomas Bentham death in Bradford parish1841-1851) for 22 Dec 1843, Death by hanging! (found in woods) informant, the Coroner!. Would this have been in the local paper? Need to crosscheck he is mine by finding out where he was living (not given on the certificate). He too was a weaver & the age is right. Can anyone help? Are local newspapers of that date kept in Bradford library or archives? Diana Wilkinson, Hertford, UK