helping a newbie!!

[jillruss]

Absolutely, Diddy - I was just hoping that we might find a JW whose birthplace was given as Bradford but the only one I can come up with on the 1881 is:

27 Southampton St, Bradford

William Harrison Head 41 joiner born  Sowerby
Elizabeth   "       Wife   51                   Wigston, Leicester
John Wm Taylor  Nephew 9                 Bradford, Yorks

which would open another can of worms if it were him! Possibly his father has already died? What of his mother?

I certainly think those 3 births you found for a JW in Bradford in 1870/1 would be worth Juliah sending for - perhaps with the proviso that his father's name has to be William - so that she'd pay less than the full £7 for any cert that isn't s/o William. I can't remember off hand what the minimum payment per certificate would be.

Jill

[diddymiller]

as stated before - on genuki bradford yorks comes within wortley reg district - thus birth given post 12 most likely.


Diddy

[jillruss]

As stated in previous post - absolutely!! 

Jill

[Barbara F]

Hi

I have been following this thread and am a bit confused!

Isn't Bradford a Registration District in its own right?  I thought it was Bradfield that is in the Wortley Registration District?

Barbara

[Annie65115]

I've been following this thread and been quietly surprised that BradFORD should be classified under Wortley, if only because Bradford is a city and Wortley is a village!

Now BradFIELD (upper and lower) are two villages nowadays under the Bradfield Parish Council, and they aren't very far from Wortley village at all so that would make more sense.

Sorry, I'm not being v helpful re the OP but I do know the Sheffield area pretty well!

[Annie65115]

That might also raise the possibility that JW was born in Bradfield, under Wortley jurisdiction, but this was mistranscribed as Bradford for the census.

[Barbara F]

Hello Annie

I am relieved to hear that someone who knows the area agrees with me - I am not particularly familiar with research in Yorkshire and therefore was rather hesitant about posting!

Barbara

[coombs]

Hi

There is such a registration district as Bradford. Bradford is a large city so it should have a reg district.

Ben

[jillruss]

Must admit, I was begining to find all this Wortley business a bit confusing.

Correct me if I'm wrong (please) but we are looking for the birth of a John Willie/William Taylor in Bradford about 1871/2.

Diddy found 3 possibles on FreeBMD.

I'm not sue if we've found any of them on the earlier censuses - other than the one living with his uncle and aunt, the Harrisons in 1881??

Jill