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    1. [WRY] WRY PRs. on Ancestry & the Surname HIRST Badsworth, Owston & Campsall.
    2. Jenny De Angelis
    3. I am researching the surname HIRST in the Owston & Campsall areas of the WRY and have made contact with one or two people who share the same family of Hirst with me. One of these contacts I know has their later Hirsts at Badsworth where the father isRichard Hirst occ. Butcher and the mother is Elizabeth. Another, more recently found, contact told me today that he had found the baptisms on the familysearch site for a couple of children of Richard and Elizabeth at Badsworth, but which I found turned out to be patron submissions. But I went to the ancestry site and the WRY PRs there for 1512-1812. I searched for Hirst with the above parents names and up came daughter Mary baptised in Dec. 1771 and son John baptised in 1774 but noted by Ancestry as having taken place at Nether Thong All saints. Looking at the bottom of "View Record" page for these entries where it gives information on where the details were taken from give a West Yorks Archives Service ref. as Old Ref. D 19/4 New Ref. WD19/4 Going to the WYAS site and searching for Badsworth parish register I found that the ref. given there was WD19/1-4 . A search of the WYAS for Netherthong parish registers brings up a result where the PRs for All Saints Netherthong date only from 1815 and the ref. if WDP18. The PRs for st. Andrews Netherthong date from 1878 with ref. WDP 245. According to Wikipeadia All Saints church Netherthong was not built until 1829-30, Ancestry it would appear have put the marriages Badsworth correctly under Badsworth but the baptisms, and possibly the burials too I haven't checked those, are under Nether Thong. I have e.mailed Ancestry to tell them of this apparent error and await their response. But I thought others might find the above useful to know if they are looking for entries in the Badsworth PRs, it pays to check the information at the bottom of the View Record page that goes with each entry on Ancestry and look at the relevant CRO ref. number given there. Regards Jenny DeAngelis

    02/11/2012 07:54:18