I am new to this list so please bear with me if  I seem to ask a stupd question. Is Scholes part of the West Riding? I am searching for the birth of Harold Laycock born about 1901. Cenus returns show his birthplace as Scholes. His father was Joseph and his mother Annie(maiden name unknown as yet) . There are a lot of Harold Laycocks in Yorkshire and I need to narrow it down a little to be able to find his birth record. Thank you Sue

Hi,.  Yes Scholes is in the West Riding, it is next to Barwick in Elmete and not far from Leeds. It is a lovely little village with a lot of history.   Hope that helps Barbara --- On Sat, 20/2/10, S FOWLER <[email protected]> wrote: From: S FOWLER <[email protected]> Subject: [WRY] Help please with Scholes To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, 20 February, 2010, 19:41 I am new to this list so please bear with me if  I seem to ask a stupd question. Is Scholes part of the West Riding? I am searching for the birth of Harold Laycock born about 1901. Cenus returns show his birthplace as Scholes. His father was Joseph and his mother Annie(maiden name unknown as yet) . There are a lot of Harold Laycocks in Yorkshire and I need to narrow it down a little to be able to find his birth record. Thank you Sue 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

Not a stupid question at all, we all had to start somewhere. A search of the 1901 census for Harold Laycock living in Yorkshire born 2yrs either side of 1901 with a father called Joseph brings up just one result, this shows the mother as Annie, so I assume this is the family you mean in your message. The 1901 census entry shows son Harold born at Cleckheaton Yorkshire. The family are living at Cleckheaton at the time and the top of the census page shows that this is in the Urban District of Scholes. The ref. for this census entry is RG13 piece 471 folio 109 page 10. Looking at the page giving the description of the Enumeration District which is No. 7, this shows that the Registration District is North Bierley, Sub District Cleckheaton. If you look at the census image on the Ancestry site at the top you will see it says Cleckheaton District 7, you can click on that District 7 which will take you to the description of the Enumerators walk that he took around District 7 collecting the completed census schedules from the householders. The heading on these description pages shows the Registration district etc., for that area. Searching on Free BMD for a birth of Harold Laycock in North Bierley Reg. District betwee 1895 and 1905 shows the most likely birth for your Harold. Sept. Qtr 1900 Harold Laycock North Bierley REg. District volume 9b page 152. Harold is shown in the 1901 census entry as age 8months, which would be about right if he was born between July -September 1900 and the census was taken on 5th April 1901 then he would between 7-9months old by the time of the census, dependant on the month he had been born during that September Quarter of 1900. Is it in the 1911 census that you have found him with his birth place shown as Scholes? Hope this helpt to get you on your way with Harold Laycock. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<I am new to this list so please bear with me if I seem to ask a stupd question. Is Scholes part of the West Riding? I am searching for the birth of Harold Laycock born about 1901. Cenus returns show his birthplace as Scholes. His father was Joseph and his mother Annie(maiden name unknown as yet) . There are a lot of Harold Laycocks in Yorkshire and I need to narrow it down a little to be able to find his birth record.>>