My great great grandfather was Thomas Greenwood, born 1819 Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. According to Non-Conformist register, "Thomas son of Thomas Greenwood and Ann his wife was born at Hebden Bridge in the township of Heptonstall parish of Halifax, 18th May 1819 and registered 1st June"
I don't know if these are the correct parents for him, though I am fairly certain that Thomas was born in 1819 in Hebden Bridge. He married Bridget Ward, born Ireland 1823 and at some point moved to Hulme, Manchester, where their children were born. I don't know if he moved back to Hebden Bridge.
Somebody told me his father was called Henry Greenwood. So I am not really sure of his parentage, or if Henry was his father's father.
Thomas Greenwood, born 1819 Hebden Bridge, was registered by Non-Conformists, so his parents were probably members of the local Methodist Chapel? So they would have been buried in the local Methodist Chapel graveyard? And maybe Thomas was too? Maybe Thomas' wife Bridget returned to Hebden Bridge with him?
Greenwood is a very common name in Hebden Bridge, where it originated in the twelfth century. This part of my family is very hard to trace, with wives born in Ireland and names that were very common.
I have looked at the online pdf by the Hebden Bridge local history society, which lists burials in the local churchyard, but they seem to be mostly late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which is a later time period than I am looking for, and they might not be Non-Conformists (Methodists?). There are a lot of Greenwoods, but I can't see any that seem to be about my ancestors.
