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"An Hotel in Halifax"
« on: Tuesday 16 May 06 11:24 BST (UK) »
Hi, Everyone,
Having unsuccessfully tried to discover the whereabouts of a Holdsworth near Halifax as a place of birth/baptism in 1697, I have discovered by googling a modern day hotel called Holdsworth House, apparently built in 1633...
Does anybody know where I might find some kind of history of this building?
Very best wishes,
Keith

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Re: "An Hotel in Halifax"
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 May 06 12:23 BST (UK) »
Hi Keith
Don't know wether you have this bit of info or not.
HOLDSWORTH, a hamlet in the township of Ovenden, and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield, 3 miles N. of Halifax." .

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Re: "An Hotel in Halifax"
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 May 06 12:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Keith
Also by googling there is this on the A2A site
Wadsworth family of HOLDSWORTH HOUSE , Ovenden, papers
catalogue ref FW28
(Creators)  Wadsworth family of Holdsworth House

more info can be got at West Yorkshire Archive Service


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Harby,Garton,Drury,Duncombe,Booth,Catton,Barker, Kirkby, Wilson. Lincolnshire, <br />Also Murkin's, Jeffery,Pettitt,Carter, from Suffolk/Cambridgeshire boarder<br />Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: "An Hotel in Halifax"
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 May 06 12:48 BST (UK) »
Brilliant, Ricky!
I'll have a good look at all that now...
Keith

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Re: "An Hotel in Halifax"
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 May 06 14:48 BST (UK) »
Keith:

From your Scout Hall enquiry, you're obviously familiar with my Calderdale Companion and will have visited the entry for Holdsworth House there at

What more would you like to know?

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Re: "An Hotel in Halifax"
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 May 06 15:03 BST (UK) »
Malcolm,
Sorry, a complete oversight on my part not to consult your Companion first.  I have done so now, and am more the wiser...!
Very best wishes,
Keith
N.B. A mere coincidence, but I've just realised that woman who adopted my grandmother in 1899 or so in Hampstead was born in Ovenden, according to the Census...
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