Having seen Nelson's posting about his Hirst family of Mirfield I thought I would re-post my interest in the same surame but at Owston & Campsall. I have a Godfrey HIRST who was baptised at Owston in 1735 son of Jonathan Hirst, and I believe he may have been my 4 x Gt. Grandfather who married Dorothy DUNHILL, dau. of Richard Dunhill who grew the liquorice in Pontefract. I have been trying for years to find a way to be sure that the Godfrey Hirst bapt. 1735 Owston was in fact the one that married Dorothy Dunhill in Jan. 1770 at Newton Kyme and then went off to live in Northallerton in the North Riding. I know that Godfrey and Dorothy were indeed my 4 x Gt. Grandparents as I have tracked my line back to them and have quite a bit on their descendants but trying to pin Godfrey Hirst's birthplace down for sure is proving difficult and the 1735 baptism at Owston is the best I have managed to find so far. Working on the father Jonathan shown in that Owston baptism for Godfrey Hirst I have found the following so far. I believe Jonathan Hirst would have been born about 1690. His first child that I know of was called Sarah and she was born 2nd Dec. 1717 according to her baptism at Campsall. Jonathan's last child baptised at Campsall that I know of was Richard in 1728, the PR entry says that father Jonathan Hirst was of Fenwick. . My Godfrey Hirst's will dated 1806 and written at Northallerton includes his brother Richard Hirst of Badsworth. I have a marriage for Richard Hirst at Badsworth and he and his wife, Elizabeth Machin, had their children all baptised there too. Richard died late in 1806 at Badsworth and Godfrey died in February 1807, presumably before he changed his will to exclude his deceased brother Richard of Badsworth. I am in touch with another person who has Richard Hirst at Badsworth in his tree and believe that this was Godfrey Hirsts brother and therefore some sort of Great Uncle to me. The spelling of the Hirst name with an I is less common than Hurst with a U, though both are very common in Yorkshire as a whole which doesn't help. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<Nelson wrote > I have a number of the Hirst family from Mirfield in my tree. > Joshua HIRST and Sarah DAWSON m 10 Mar 1691 7th g-grandparents > Parents to Mary Hirst c 27 Sep 1697 6th g- grandmother married Jonathan > DENTON B~1693 Kirkheaton or Mirfield > Eliza HIRST c 26 Jun 1694 married William WRATHMEL c 5 Nov 1692 m ~1713 6th g-grandparents>>