HI Arthur, Yes, you are the other person I was referring to in my message. Nice to hear from you again, I have not been doing much on the Hirst family for a while, I seem to have got really stuck with them. But seeing Nelson's posting about his Hirsts at Mirfield prompted me to re-post my interest in the name and see what happened. I still haven't found the death of Godfrey Hirst's wife Dorothy nee Dunhill anywhere in Yorkshire. She was not mentioned in Godfrey's will written in 1806, he died in 1807, so I assume she must have been already dead when he wrote it. The last mention I have of Dorothy is a hair powder tax payment in 1795 so I have 10year window for her death to have taken place in. I have checked the NBI online at the familyhistorynline site of the Fed. FHS but of all the Dorothy Hirsts mentioned not one of them fits with my Dorothy. I have been through the PRs for Northallerton where my branch of Hirsts lived from at least 1770 onwards but found no mention of Dorothy's burial there though Godfrey and one or two of their children and grandchildren are shown in the burial registers. Perhaps she died while on a visit somewhere else but that other place has not yet been included in the NBI, either that or she is on the NBI but in a place I don't recognise for her. I also have at least 2 of Godfrey's sons, Jonathan and Richard, that went to live in Kingston upon Hull/Sculcoates area of East Yorkshire. Richard was mentioned as being a Cutler and Ironmonger at Kigston upon Hull in Godfrey's will of 1806 but then I found Richard buried in Northallerton in 1833, in the obituary for him in the Hull Advertiser if notes him as the brother of Mr. Francis Hirst of the Golden Lion Inn Northallerton. I can only assume that as he is buried in Northallerton he had moved back there after th death of his father, perhaps as he was the eldest child of Godfrey he wanted to keep an eye on his younger brothers? Jonathan lived and died with his wife and children at Sculcoates and he and his wife ended their days in the Charterhouse almhouses there, he died in the 1860s. What I need to get hold of is a copy of the baptism of Godfrey Hirst in 1735 from the Owston PRs, though I have looked at the LDS film of these and confirmed the details the LDS centre here in Barcelona does not have a machine to make copies from microfilms. I also need to get a copy of the marriage in 1770 at Newton Kyme of Godfrey Hirst to Dorothy Dunhill but I am not sure where those PRs would be kept, York of Wakefield? I have copies of the marriage licence and bond but not the actual marriage entry. I do like to have copies of the originals for my files. Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. > My ancestor Richard HIRST had the good sense to die in a parish using Dade > registers, and his burial entry (1806) names his father as Jonathan Hirst > of > Owston, Farmer. His age at burial and his father's relatively uncommon > forename are consistent with the baptism found in 1728 in Campsall, which > is > adjacent to Owston. This evidence of movement from Campsall to Owston, > together with Godfrey's mention of Richard in his will, also makes it more > likely that the Jonathan father of Richard (1728) and the Jonathan father > of > Godfrey (1735/36) are one and the same.