Dear Friends, This is Alan Wright returning to the List after unsubscribing myself for a few weeks (because of commitments away from home). Main interests in the WRY are: WRIGHT (Dewsbury & Holmfirth area) HINCHLIFFE (Holmfirth area) PICKLES (Holmfirth) and DEWSE (Dewsbury) Also I have had a change of email address. Cheers Alan

Allen I see the name WRIGHT---do you have any from the Barnsley area---my Gmother is Mary Wright Scales---born abt 1850--father is John Wright---she was living at #12 Heelis St Barnsley when married She married my Gfather George A Scales 13 Dec 1869 at the Parish of St John, Barnsley Hope to hear from you My Regards Richard USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan" <alan_e_wright@dodo.com.au> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:01 AM Subject: [WRY] Returning to List - Alan Wright > Dear Friends, > > This is Alan Wright returning to the List after unsubscribing myself for a > few weeks (because of commitments away from home). > > Main interests in the WRY are: > WRIGHT (Dewsbury & Holmfirth area) > HINCHLIFFE (Holmfirth area) > PICKLES (Holmfirth) and > DEWSE (Dewsbury) > > Also I have had a change of email address. > > Cheers > Alan > >

Dear Alan My 5g-grandparents were Samuel DEWSE and Judith (ELLIS) who married in Dewsbury on 11 Feb 1761 according to the IGI (extracted from parish register.) My descent is from their daughter Judith who married James SMITH. Does that ring any bells? The only information I have on Samuel and Judith (snr) is from their marriage, the baptisms of their children, and a 'possible' for Samuel's own baptism in Dewsbury in February 1745, the son of Richard. If that is the correct one, and if it was an infant baptism, it would mean Samuel was 16 at marriage, which of course is quite possible. Samuel and Judith had 6 children in the 11 years after their marriage, then I cannot trace any more. If they were in their teens when they married this seems unlikely unless one of them died, but again I haven't been able to trace that. The other possibilities are that Samuel was not an infant when he was baptised, or that the one in 1745 is the wrong one. Althought the marriages are Dewsbury, the baptisms are Ossett, so I suspect that is where they lived. No doubt somebody will correct me if I'm mistaken but Ossett seems to have had its own baptism registers back to 1746 but not its own marriage registers until much later. I have a fair bit more information on Judith (DEWSE) SMITH and succeeding generations if you are interested. Kim Alan <alan_e_wright@dodo.com.au> wrote: Dear Friends, This is Alan Wright returning to the List Main interests in the WRY are: DEWSE (Dewsbury) --------------------------------- For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month.