There is a "SALLY" CLIFFORD, dau. of William Clifford, 6 Oct 1779 at Birstall (= 22 when married ??) Gordon. On 21 November 2011 21:22, <maggiemole@aol.com> wrote: > 1790 seems a bit of a late birth date for someone married in 1801. I'd take at least another 5 years before that into account. > Maggie > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fenenga <fenenga@connpoint.net> > To: west-riding <west-riding@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:05 > Subject: Re: [WRY] Another mix up on Ancestry > > > > > I'm not knowledgable enough to be certain that these are > miss-filed, but there's a number of parishes/towns gathered under Leeds > at Ancestry, including Birstall, and when I spoke to Ancestry about > hundreds of missing Cliffords they just basically shrugged and told me > to expand my search criteria, which barely made any difference at all. I > think it went from no Cliffords to about 20 Cliffords, when the name > seems as common in Yorkshire as Smith is in all of England. in trying to > find the parents of Sarah Clifford, I ran into numerous ones, born > within 5 years of the estimated b. date of the Sarah I'm looking for, > and born within 10 miles of where my Sarah was married. if anyone's > research Cliffords in the Birstall/Armley/Batley/Hightown area, perhaps > there is a relation. > > Sarah Clifford/Clifforth m. 6 Apr 1801 Birstall, > by banns to Charles Murfitt > > estimate she was b. abt 1790+-5 years in > one of the towns listed above. > > Cornelia > > Oregon, USA > > > 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 > > > > 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 >

It seems the Horsforth registers are also mixed up - they have been indexed as Harewood All Saints but I have found a page that clearly stated they are Horsforth chapel. but still we are lucky to have this online even with mistakes! kathryn Dr Kathryn Hughes westyorkshirelives.co.uk Bradfordww1.co.uk