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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Thursday 09 September 21 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi again

Thanks again for your input and taking up your personal time to research this.

I have already come across the recordings of Pitt Royd in Silkstone in the Barnsley Archives, which is what confused us initially. We walked that locality and I think we found the place to be in the region of Kine Moor, Silkstone where there is a farm complex.

With the Thornhill Parish Registers, I applied the search button to find all Pitt Royd entries, whatever the family surname, and there are quite a few. It seems like the all locate it to the areas already discussed.

I feel confident the Netherton link is the one though. Next in line for research is to browse the Savile Estate records/archives for Pitt Royd/Hey links to be certain of my assumption, but I fear that is going to be along and arduous task, as I am little lost as to where to look specifically i.e. Rent books, Tennant lists etc., etc. These records are spread out over three different places, Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Nottingham!!

Again, thanks for your time on this Dobfarm. Appreciated

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Friday 20 August 21 09:38 BST (UK)  »
Resized attachment as first attempt was chopped in half!

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Friday 20 August 21 09:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Inclined to agree with your rough location, regarding you first post today, and I am probably going to take some dissuading otherwise. Thanks

With reference to your second post, the position of that is a bit out on a limb and 'Gate' in front weakens the suggestion. Alas, I have found another reference to Pitt Royd in West Bretton, documented twice. Pytroid in 1529 (YD vi) and Pitt Royds (spelling is the same when documented in the Thornhill Parish Regs!) in 1653, gleaned from Place Names of W R Yorkshire Part ii. May be its the same Pitt Royd as the one near Windy Bank.?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Saturday 14 August 21 09:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I'm inclined to think the Pitt Royd mentioned in the newspaper clipping is closer to the mark for me, but I take your point and its worth looking at all the evidence that's been dug up so far. Thanks. Its trying to establish a link between Netherton/Thornhill/ Shitlington and Silkstone/Cawthorne where our ancestors definitely resided in 19thC. Looking at a recently found Parish Map of this part of West Yorkshire (see attachment), Silkstone Parish boundary extended to West Bretton, a stones throw from the presumed location of Pitt Royd! Coincidence?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 16:41 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again for those facts. Really interesting.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 16:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Arthurk
Thanks for your response. Interesting they did that but I wonder what time of year they took the census's.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Here is a map with an area roughly outlined where Pitt Royd may have been.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi DominoD
Thanks for your response. Fascinating we might have a common ancestor! Still trying to find concrete evidence of our links with Thornhill though. Just posted a reply to Dobfarm regarding my recent discovery of another Pitt Royd near Netherton which might be worth a read.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Royd Pitts, nr Netherton or Thornhill, Yorkshire
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Dobfarm
Just to add to that, not far from your Pits Beck is Whitley Farm. In the 1841 Census for that farm is a  George Hey, 15 years old - cannot make out his occupation. Our GGG is a George Hey, born in Silkstone, 1824, but he is missing from the 1841 census for that area. Could he have moved out of that household to go working as an Agricultural Labourer to the farm above, given our presumed connections with both geographical regions? One problem with that is the age discrepancy - 15 on the 1841 census but he would have been 16 or 17 at that time. Would he have known his actual age given possible illiteracy?

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