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    2. Richard Tetley
    3. Hi folks, Firstly, many thanks to Richard (the one in Yorkshire) for his postings from the 1901 census (and all the other great extraction work that he does for us.) Secondly, I've just managed to find my own family on the 1901 census (which is now on-line at http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/index.jsp). In case you don't already know, this is the Public Record Office version, for which you have to pay 75pence (UK money) for each sheet. You can examine the indexes for free though! Unfortunately, errors are many, and my family have been transcribed as having the surname JETTLEY, and my g-grandmother, Polly, has become Rolly. (By the way, there are some 76 Jetleys on the 1901 census. I'll put money, on most of them being Tetleys!) The bad news, on my part, is that gg-grandfather, William Tetley (1844-) isn't living with gg-grandmother Lucy (nee Jackson). Lucy is living with her son, my g-grandfather Frederick William Tetley, his wife, Polly (or Rolly as she appears in 1901) their son (my grandfather), and Lucy's other sons & daughters. William, the rogue, is a 'boarder' with 'The Widow Wells' as she is known in the family, (and has been since presumably about 1900!). I am fairly sure that after Lucy's death, William made Betsy A. Wells an honest woman again. She certainly appears in a Kelly's directory as Mrs. Betsy Tetley, in the 1920s. Hmmmm! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BTW Can I suggest that we pool any census entries that we extract? It would certainly save me some money in extracting the entries for the Tetley one-name-study that I'm attempting. Should you wish to spend some time on the census website, I can recommend a tool (excel spreadsheet) for collating the entries, and discovering the likely family groups. If you go to the website of the Leedsindexers, there is a free download of the spreadsheet http://www.leedsindexers.co.uk/Internet_Tools.htm It takes seconds to download (at least on my cable modem connection), and is a really useful tool in making sense of the free data that you can access on the PRO website I'll try to catch up with t'other Richard's postings over the weekend, and I hope to extract some of the 1901 census index entries, which might help us identify the various folk of direct interest to folk on this list. It won't be as detailed as the entries that Richard has posted, but should be enough to identify which sheets actually contain relatives and need paying for (I'm assuming that you only have access to the Yorkshire entries Richard?) Cheers Rich -- Born in Sheffield, but currently in Nottingham UK. Family names:- ASHFORTH, CAVE, CHAMPION, HODGES, HOPE, JACKSON, NICHOLSON, SIMPSON, SLEE, TETLEY, WALKER, WESTOVER, WOOLLEN, WILLIAMS. Home Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.tetley/

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