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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: swimming + public baths
« on: Monday 14 March 11 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bodger, hope you're well!

The Holmfirth Lido was, according to my contacts, somewhere in  the Rotcher/Goose Green area, exactly as you describe, on the way to Cartworth.

Apparently there was another open-air pool at Park Head, that's on the A635 Holmfirth-Greenfield Road, so it must have been somewhere near where Compo's Cafe now is.

By coincidence, I've just had fish'n'chips from there for my tea  :)

Jon

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: swimming + public baths
« on: Sunday 13 March 11 19:53 GMT (UK)  »
I learned to swim at Armley Baths, Leeds.

I remember the Wagon Wheels and cups of hot Bovril too!

I have an elderly friend I can ask about Holmfirth, will be seeing him tonight.

Jon

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: John Raper's parents
« on: Sunday 10 October 10 21:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Weenie,

William's father John Raper was probably born in Armley, although he also lived in Rothwell and Farnley, near Leeds.

John Raper appears to have been baptised at St. Patrick's RC Church on York Road, Leeds (quite a way from Armley but possibly the nearest Catholic church) and his parents were Christopher and Hannah.

The only likely marriage I can find for them is in Otley, but they did have three other children, Christopher (1795), Mary (1799) and Robert Walker (1802). I haven't followed up on these lines, but of course all these places (apart from Otley) were villages next to each other in the south-west Leeds area, so we may also have a connection.

Jon

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: John Raper's parents
« on: Sunday 10 October 10 17:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jchaddy,

This is possible. William Raper married Mary Hannah Best at Leeds Parish Church in 1855.

According to the 1891 Census, their youngest daughter, Emily, was born in Huddersfield (?) in about 1868, and was still single, living at home, which was in Wortley, Leeds.

The same family are still living in Wortley in 1901. I don't have access to the 1911 census, but I think that William Raper probably died in 1909.

Do you have any more details of the marriage---date, church, witnesses etc? I can't see it in any of my normal sources.

Jon


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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: MIs, St Michael's, Farnley, Leeds
« on: Saturday 16 January 10 22:53 GMT (UK)  »
Oh well.

Thanks for letting me know anyway.

Jon

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: MIs, St Michael's, Farnley, Leeds
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sunlaws,

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It's definitely St Michael's, and there is a contemporary record of a tombstone being ordered (from a Thomas Holdsworth), but it may not be still there or still legible.

Do you know any more about Thomas? He is a distant relative of mine. Which contemporary record are you referring to?

Jon

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Hepworth Yorkshire
« on: Monday 07 September 09 21:29 BST (UK)  »
Kath,

There is a Mary A. Hepworth on YorkshireBMD who married Henry Armitage (no relative as far as I know, but Henry runs in the family) at Leeds Registered Building in 1882. And there are a couple of other possibles in 1885 and 1888.

No marriages for Percival, but a Percy L. Heworth (No P) died in 1887, Leeds West. Freebmd reveals he was Percy Leonard.

HTH

Jon
 

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: George Barrow Hepworth Kirkburton
« on: Monday 07 September 09 20:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi Arboreal Addict,

You might think this is irrelevant, but please bear with me.

You are probably not going to believe this, but when I got home from work this evening, I had an email from Rootschat to say that a three-year-old thread I had contributed to had been updated. (The thread just below this entitled Abrigg).

Today's post was by someone called dobfarm.

I have not logged on to Rootschat for ages, so I scanned down the list for unanswered queries, and spotted Hepworth, about which I know a little. Then I looked up George Barrow on Ancestry. And to my amazement I found an extract from Holmfirth Parish Register: George Barrow Bapt 1808 Added by wob58 on 30 Nov 2008, Originally submitted by dobfarm on 21 Nov 2008. And there is a family tree with all the people you mention.

So, I suggest you PM dobfarm and see if they are the same person and whether they can help you.

Jon


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Leeds Town Hall
« on: Thursday 06 March 08 17:18 GMT (UK)  »
Eileen,

I re-read your original post, and realised you could not have looked at Genuki:

Baldwinson T Private 3rd Volunteer Battalion (PWO) WY Regt (Leeds Rifles) is the closest match.

http://www.genuki.org.uk:8080/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/LeedsTownHallBoerWarPlaque.html

Jon

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