Hi Roger, We just visited the UK and stayed in Hebden Bridge for a couple of weeks and walked up to Heptonstall. The Methodist chapel there is the oldest Methodist Chapel still in continuous use in the world and is one of only a few Octagonal ones to be built. There were quite a few graves in the attached graveyard. Apparently both Charles and John Wesley preached at Heptonstall and there is a bit of info on the web eg: <http://www.treasuresrevealed.co.uk/discover-explore/calderdale/hebden-bridg e/alias-26/> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/04/09/heptonstall_featu re.shtml> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/hepto nstallmethodist1.htm> This last site includes sections on baptisms, marriages and burials for various churches - so you may find something there? If you ever make it over to the UK, it is a very interesting and scenic area to explore. Neil -- Neil Houghton Albany Western Australia on 7/12/11 4:01 PM, west-riding-request@rootsweb.com at west-riding-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:38:59 +1300 > From: Roger & Joyce <rnoonan@ihug.co.nz> > Subject: [WRY] INGHAM Wesleyans in Heptonstall area > To: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4EDDD4A3.70704@ihug.co.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I'm trying to track down information about an INGHAM who was a farmer in > the valley below Whitehill Nook near Hebden Bridge. I am told he was a > great Wesleyan (in touch with John Wesley) and that his home was used as > a school for local preachers. > > His son James (Red) INGHAM, born about 1800, married a Nanny GREENWOOD > in 1820, in Heptonstall. > > I am particularly interested in following up the Wesleyan connection and > would welcome suggestions. > > Thanks, > > Roger in New Zealand >

Hi Neil: Thanks for posting about your recent trip. I found the links very interesting!! My daughter & I are planning a trip to the UK in 2013. I am hoping to visit the places my great grandparents, John Skinner & Susy Greenwood, lived. I believe Susy was born in Todmorden. I have recently found the 1899 burial for their son, Andrew, in the Parish of Lightcliffe. I am assuming it was at St. Matthews Church as that is where Andrew's sister was married. It would be no nice to find a marker/headstone for his resting place. If anyone has suggestions on things to see/do and places to stay I would love to hear from you. Cheers, Megan Cavendish, Prince Edward Island -----Original Message----- From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: December-07-11 7:10 AM To: West Riding Subject: Re: [WRY] WEST-RIDING Digest, Vol 6, Issue 231 Hi Roger, We just visited the UK and stayed in Hebden Bridge for a couple of weeks and walked up to Heptonstall. The Methodist chapel there is the oldest Methodist Chapel still in continuous use in the world and is one of only a few Octagonal ones to be built. There were quite a few graves in the attached graveyard. Apparently both Charles and John Wesley preached at Heptonstall and there is a bit of info on the web eg: <http://www.treasuresrevealed.co.uk/discover-explore/calderdale/hebden-bridg e/alias-26/> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/04/09/heptonstall_featu re.shtml> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/hepto nstallmethodist1.htm> This last site includes sections on baptisms, marriages and burials for various churches - so you may find something there? If you ever make it over to the UK, it is a very interesting and scenic area to explore. Neil -- Neil Houghton Albany Western Australia

From: "Megan Skinner" <the.skinners-pei@pei.sympatico.ca> > My daughter & I are planning a trip to the UK in 2013. I am hoping > to visit the places my great grandparents, John Skinner & Susy Greenwood, > lived. I believe Susy was born in Todmorden. > I have recently found the 1899 burial for their son, Andrew, in the Parish > of Lightcliffe. I am assuming it was at St. Matthews Church as that > is where Andrew's sister was married. It would be no nice to find a > marker/headstone for his resting place. > If anyone has suggestions on things to see/do and places to stay I > would > love to hear from you. > > Cheers, > Megan > Cavendish, Prince Edward Island > See the 1911 census..... RG14 Piece:26374 Reference: RG14PN26374 RG78PN1524 RD496 SD1 ED6 SN128 I also suggest you look at FreeBMD and see how many Susy (or variants of the forename) Greenwoods were born in Todmorden registration district! GREENWOOD is probably by far and away the most common surname in the Calder Valley. If you are planning to visit, then Heptonstall is an absolute must - one of the most fascinating places in the country. The climb up from Hebden Bridge is formidable, whichever way you do it, but more than worth the effort. It's a classic old picture postcard village with weavers' cottages, cobbled stones, a museum, several pubs and two churches in one churchyard (one of very few, possibly the only one, in the country). And also, as has been mentioned, the octagonal chapel founded by the Wesleys. The old church ruins are quite eerie (the church was destroyed in a gale in 1848 and a new one built alongside it). In the graveyard of the old church is the grave of "King" David Hartley, leader of the gang known as the Cragg Vale coiners, who counterfeited gold coins and murdered an exciseman at Halifax. Hartley was hanged at York in 1770. In the new churchyard is the grave of the American poet, Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide when married to Ted Hughes of nearby Mytholmroyd, the former Poet Laureate. Hebden Bridge was a grimy old mill town when I lived at Mytholmroyd in the 1950s, but in the last 40-50 years it has been transformed into a trendy place with wine bars, restaurants, craft and antique shops, terraced houses built spectacularly on the hillside one above another in Italianate stall - and, it's claimed, the largest gay and lesbian community in the UK (if you are interested in that sort of thing)! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Hi, Just spent 5 weeks with family in Yorkshire in Huddersfield. I loved Halifax, the town is interesting and then we visited Shibden Hall. (Not far from Todmorden) We also visited the Sculpture Park, the National Coal Mining museum, this is an experience and interesting. In Leeds the Armoury Museum was very worthwhile. The Colne Valley Museum at Golcar and also Ravensknowle museum at Moldgreen tells of the origins of Huddersfield. The local council seems to have information regarding graves as do the churches. We found the site details of my husband's grandfather ELLAM at Beaumont Park Cemetery (in use and well looked after), his Aunt is buried there as well as his grandfather. she died in 1941 and he died in 1953, the headstone is still in good condition and readable and the grave is intact and hasn't collapsed. My brother suggested we buy Spring bulbs and we planted them, he has promised to photo them in Spring. (His in-laws who died relatively recently are buried in a different part of this cemetery). We also uncovered the plot our grandfather is buried in at the Lindley Methodist Church there is no headstone and this section was overgrown but my brother cleared a path. The church has records. My WOOD ancestors were clothiers in Golcar and so the museums which depicted this occupation were particularly interesting to me. The Huddersfield library has lots of information and I sure Halifax or other areas might also. Hope that helps. Jean -----Original Message----- From: Megan Skinner Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:37 PM To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Subject: [WRY] SKINNER & GREENWOOD (WRY & Lancashire) Hi Neil: Thanks for posting about your recent trip. I found the links very interesting!! My daughter & I are planning a trip to the UK in 2013. I am hoping to visit the places my great grandparents, John Skinner & Susy Greenwood, lived. I believe Susy was born in Todmorden. I have recently found the 1899 burial for their son, Andrew, in the Parish of Lightcliffe. I am assuming it was at St. Matthews Church as that is where Andrew's sister was married. It would be no nice to find a marker/headstone for his resting place. If anyone has suggestions on things to see/do and places to stay I would love to hear from you. Cheers, Megan Cavendish, Prince Edward Island -----Original Message----- From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: December-07-11 7:10 AM To: West Riding Subject: Re: [WRY] WEST-RIDING Digest, Vol 6, Issue 231 Hi Roger, We just visited the UK and stayed in Hebden Bridge for a couple of weeks and walked up to Heptonstall. The Methodist chapel there is the oldest Methodist Chapel still in continuous use in the world and is one of only a few Octagonal ones to be built. There were quite a few graves in the attached graveyard. Apparently both Charles and John Wesley preached at Heptonstall and there is a bit of info on the web eg: <http://www.treasuresrevealed.co.uk/discover-explore/calderdale/hebden-bridg e/alias-26/> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/04/09/heptonstall_featu re.shtml> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~todmordenandwalsden/hepto nstallmethodist1.htm> This last site includes sections on baptisms, marriages and burials for various churches - so you may find something there? If you ever make it over to the UK, it is a very interesting and scenic area to explore. Neil -- Neil Houghton Albany Western Australia Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message