Hi Ian   Rastrick would have come under Halifax registration district.   The March quarter for 1844 in D.ewsbury has a birth for an Ephzibeth HIRST. I checked the image and yes, it really is Ephzibeth, but I can't see any death or marriage for Ephzibeth Hirst- I wonder if they decided if it was too much trouble to keep explaining it and reverted to Elizabeth. Do any of your Elizabeth's siblings have obscure biblical names?   regards,   Lesley ________________________________ From: Ian <ianbrooke@hotmail.com> To: Yorkshire List <WEST-RIDING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, 14 October 2011, 18:47 Subject: [WRY] Rastrick Hi, I’m having trouble finding the birth certificate for my Gt Gt Grandmother, Elizabeth Hirst.  According to the 1851 census (and confirmed by later census’s) she was 6 years old so born in 1844/5.  I can find one birth of the right name in Dec 1844 but it’s the wrong person (mother’s & father’s names are wrong).  Her parents and siblings were all born in Liversedge/Cleckheaton and I have been looking in the Dewsbury records.  Elizabeth however was born in Rastrick and I don’t know which district this would come under (or even why she was born there when the parents were living still in Liversedge).  There are 2 possible births in 1845 listed under Huddersfield – does anyone know which district Rastrick would have been in at that time? Many thanks Ian 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