HI List Know this is not the Wakefield List...................BUT wonder if someone could perhaps help a friend of mine........ "Maybe you could help me ... if you don't mind :)) I'm trying to track down some details of a William Briggs father of Thomas Pilkington Briggs my gg grandfather. Will was born around 1810 and I am presuming, just for the moment that he was born in Wakefield as so far everybody else has been ... I know this is a bit of a dangerous assumption but you've got to start somewhere and the 1841 census doesn't state where he was born ... not even whether it was the same county (which wouldn't help much 'cause the West Riding was a pretty big place). this is just typical of my family!! The IGI has a listing for a William Briggs born 1808 in Thorner ... was there an actual place called Thorner or is it possibly an error and should be Thornes ie part of Wakefield? There is another listing for a Will in 1810 in Wakefield but it is in the Salem Chapel George Street, and I don't have any other evidence to say they frequented this type of church as the boys were christened in I believe! the ordinary CofE church. Do any of your friends have a copy of the 1851 census that would be willing to look up Will and family (Mary, wife and Thomas, Robert and William) for me and be able to tell me where he and his wife Mary were born. On the 1841 census he was living in Thornes just down the road from Gregory's Row (I think but the CD image is very faint and hard to make out)." Warmest Wishes Jan in Bronte Country. Co List Admin Warmest Wishes Jan in Bronte Country Co-List admin ENG-YKS-Bradford. List administrator OPC-WRY-Keighley AVG updated daily

Hi Jan, Yes, there is a place called Thorner about 5 miles east of Leeds. A nice quiet little village, or at least it used to be. It's probably gone all trendy and yupified now. Cheers, Tim

----- Original Message ----- From: "tpickard" <tpickard@sympatico.ca> To: <ENG-YKS-BRADFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [ BRAD] PIILKINGTON/BRIGGS - Wakefield. Hi Tim, there is a connection with my Pickard's to Briggs and also West! I will have to search out my census records. Janet > Hi Jan, > Yes, there is a place called Thorner about 5 miles east of Leeds. A > nice quiet little village, or at least it used to be. It's probably gone all > trendy and yupified now. > Cheers, > Tim > > > ==== ENG-YKS-BRADFORD Mailing List ==== > Its expected that all subscribers to the list have a virus detection program installed. If you dont have one then please install one immediately. ***** You Know It Makes Sense ***** > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >