Hi Roy, Further to your paragraph about Colin Blanshard Wither's book, I should point out that Colin gave the whole of the text of this book to Genuki. The Introduction to the book is to be found at: <http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/YPRsIndex.html>http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/YPRsIndex.html and the parish register information is to be found on the relevant parish pages under "Church Records". Best wishes, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://www.YorkshireCDbooks.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >It occurs to me that there may be newcomers to genealogy and family >history who are >wondering "What on earth is a Waterloo church?", so I hope Audrey, >as a fellow GOON, will >not take umbrage if I explain. Some of we older hands do, I fear, >occasionally make the >mistake of assuming that everybody else knows what we are talking >about when we toss >these references around! > >Waterloo churches are often also known as "Million" churches because >they were built >under a movement started to commemorate the victory over Napoleon at >Waterloo in 1815 >and parliament in 1818 voted the sum of one million pounds to >provide funding for a radical >church building programme. This Act became known as the "Million Act". > >After various other financial initiatives and moves over a fair >number of years, by 1856 over >three million pounds had been spent on building a total of 612 new >churches, 106 of them in >Yorkshire, the majority in the West Riding. One of them was Christ >Church, Linthwaite, a >chapelry of the Parish of Almondbury, built in 1827-8. > >A comprehensive description of Waterloo/Million churches is to be >found in my good friend >Colin Blanshard Withers' excellent book on Yorkshire Parish >Registers as an appendix, >along with a complete list of all the Yorkshire churches so built. > > >-- >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 > > > >