Steve wrote: >Andy > >What about the Kaye's of Denby, which was in the parish of Kirkheaton. > >The Kaye's of denby, were Sir John Lister Kaye, I have not found very many >CLAPHAMS at Kirkheaton, but there is a family of Clapham's at Clifton and >there is a lot of burials at Hartshead, > >The Armytage's of Kirklees is spelt ARMYTAGE and Armitage's of Milnsbridge >is Spelt ARMITAGE. > >The Kay's Armytage, Beaumont's were all related in some way. > >Steve > >www.kirkheaton-ops.co.uk > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andy Micklethwaite" <jna74m@dsl.pipex.com> >To: <geedee@fsmail.net>; <west-riding@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:53 AM >Subject: [WRY] KAYE of Kirklees - was - Re: Malcolm Bull's Calderdale >Companion > > > > >>It's a pity there isn't a similar site to Malcolm's for Huddersfield! Ed >>Law's site http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/index.htm on the titled of >>Huddersfield is quite informative. Are there any others? I was told my >>great grandmother Sarah CLAPHAM was a lady's maid to Lady KAYE of Kirklees >>Hall before she married in 1880 - however in 1881 ARMITAGEs were in >>Kirklees Hall not KAYEs, so I was looking to find the truth behind the >>legend. Malcolm's site does mention the Armitages of Kirklees. I've also >>found Armitages at Milnsbridge where Sarah's stepmother Emma HARPIN was a >>maid in 1871. So was it Armitages at Kirklees or Kayes somewhere else? >>Looking for any clues you can offer! >> >>Best Wishes, Andy. >> >>At 23:48 09/12/2007, you wrote: >> >> >>>Try.... http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/calderdale/index.html it just >>>worked for me. >>> >>> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Andy. Small bit bit of info on the KAYE'S OF Kirklees. John ARMYTAGE OF Farnley Tyas b1520 died 1573 Ireland (murdered after a shipwreck) buried Farnley Tyas Yeoman, clothier, exporter married Elizabeth KAYE bLockwood Almondsbury daughter of John Kaye. Bill Mirfield Avoca Beach Nsw Ps also a ARMITAGE descendant.

From: Bill <eubil@bigpond.com> ...long snip of earlier messages..... > Small bit bit of info on the KAYE'S OF Kirklees. John ARMYTAGE > OF Farnley Tyas b1520 > died 1573 Ireland (murdered after a shipwreck) buried Farnley > Tyas Yeoman, clothier, exporter married Elizabeth KAYE b Lockwood > Almondsbury daughter of John Kaye. > Bill Mirfield > Avoca Beach > Nsw > Ps also a ARMITAGE descendant. < Those with KAYE descent from this particular family may be interested to know that the front cover of a superb book by Dr George Redmonds (the doyen of Yorkshire surname historians) entitled "Surnames and Genealogy: A New Approach" - which should be on everybody's Christmas wish list - bears a reproduction of a panel that used to hang in the family home, Woodsome Hall. The caption inside the front cover reads: "This is one of four genealogical panels that formerly hung in the main hall at Woodsome, near Huddersfield. It shows John Kaye with his numerous children and was probably painted soon after his feather's death in 1574 [sic]". The original panels would now appear to be in the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield. The date of John Kaye's death, BTW, given in the caption as 1574, may well technically be correct if his death took place in the Jan 1-March 24 period of 1573/4, thus either year would be correct. By one of those curious coincidences that seem to afflict genealogy, I myself lived briefly at Woodsome Hall as a youth in the 1950s! It has been for many years a golf club and my parents were stewards there for about a year. We were there for just one Christmas and had Christmas dinner in the magnificent main hall. It was in a sense a wonderful place to live - a superb old mansion out in the countryside - but neither my parents nor I could stand the snobbery of the golfers! I can supply a scanned image of the book cover if anyone's interested. However, I urge you to get the book because George Redmonds is an academic who writes in a down-to-earth way and "Surnames and Genealogy: A New Approach" is a seminal work. If you really want to understand how surnames developed, especially in Yorkshire, and the importance of the fluidity of surname spellings and aliases, then treat yourself! You will never read another book on Yorkshire surnames like it. -- Roy Stockdill Professional 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