As a comparative newcomer to computers at the ripe old age of 68,may I make my first contribution to our site. I am nowhere as passionate as the two Richards regarding our ancestors but I still enjoy the information which you submit.My interest was in tracing my direct lineage by means of church records at Low Moor Holy Trinity[formerly known as Wibsey Chapel]and from microfiche in Bradford library.I was happy to find links back to William Tetley,born in 1803,but became frustrated when I then got stuck.I haven't followed it any further for some years now. Regarding my immediate family,you may wish to update the TETLEY GENEALOGY PAGES as follows:- Tetley Trevor b 2 April 1934 Low Moor Stewart Sybil Grant b 16 Feb 1936 Edinburgh Tetley David b 13 Dec 1962 Low Moor Tetley Susan b 31 July 1965 Low Moor Hubbert Anthony b 14 Sept 1960 Great Horton. Regards to all, Trevor.

Hi Trevor, The Tetleys have quite a long association with Low Moor, particularly your family, of course. But I have to admit that I haven't visited Low Moor for some time, so my sense of the geography and scenery of the area isn't very good. I know of Low Moor Iron works, and that there was a big explosion there at one time. I would imagine that the ironworks is all closed down now. Is there much of the early 19th century housing still there? I suspect that my own gggg-grandfather, William Tetley (1787-1868) worked at Low Moor at one time. His son Thomas, (my ggg-grandfather) was baptised at Low Moor Wesleyan in 1821. William went on to run an iron foundry in Holbeck in Leeds, so it wouldn't be surprising if he learnt his trade at Low Moor. As far as I know they were never recorded as living at a particular address at Low Moor, but maybe that information just hasn't come to light yet. I know that there are some very early Tetley connections with the Birstal, Birkenshaw area. The Tetleys and Tetlows appear in the Birstal church records, way back in the 1500s. I suspect that the 'Low Moor' Tetleys just wandered over from Birkenshaw at some time. It's only a matter of about three miles from Birkenshaw to Low Moor, I reckon. Its my pet theory that the 'Heaton' Tetleys, and even old Joshua's family, started off at Birstal or Birkenshaw, but we have to develop the proof for that yet! :-) I'd be very interested in finding out where the Tetleys lived at Birstal and Birkenshaw. We know that Harry ran the Golden Fleece in the late 1800s, but I would imagine that the Tetleys farmed on one or more of the farms in the Birstal area, from the 1500s onwards. I know that there has been a lot of redevelopment in the general area, certainly near the motorway, but I believe that Birstal itself, is to some extent unchanged. There must be family connections with some of the surviving buildings, I would imagine! Do you know if anyone has written any books on the history of Birstal or Birkenshaw, that might indicate who lived at the various farms, through the ages? I'll try to get the web pages updated at the weekend. (and spruce the pages up, while I'm there. They're looking a bit dated now!) By the way folks, if there's anyone with a hankering to write web pages, who fancies taking over the Tetley website, I'd be quite happy to rip out my personal stuff, and hand over the reins. I just don't seem to have enough time, at the moment, to maintain them properly. It takes me all my time to keep the Tetley database going! You don't need to have any webspace of your own, its just a case of writing the pages, and then I'll upload them to my ISP. First one to volunteer..... (By the way, it's an honorary position. In other words, the pay is poor. To be brutally honest, there isn't any. :-)) ) Cheers Richard (the one in Notts) TrevorTetley@aol.com wrote: > As a comparative newcomer to computers at the ripe old age of 68,may I make > my first contribution to our site. -- 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/