Hi, I know what you mean I thought the people who acted as witness were relatives or friends until I realised they appeared on many marriage certificates of various family members not connected with each other and decided they much be professionals whose job it ws to act as a witness. Jean in S. Australia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Geddes" <[email protected]> To: "List West Riding" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:06 PM Subject: [WRY] William HOLMES - Parish Clerk - Bradford pc > There are many marriages at Bradford parish church during the 1850s > witnessed by the same William HOLMES, including some of my BOTTOMLEYs. > From > the 1851 census, it would seem he was the Parish Clerk. Until I found this > out, I had been thinking he was a relative of Martha HOLMES who had > married > John BOTTOMLEY in Halifax. Now I realise there's no connection. > > Are the names of Parish Clerks recorded anywhere? > > In particular, was a John THOMAS Parish Clerk at Halifax parish church in > 1844? > > Howard Geddes > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message