Whitehead Family in Yorkshire.

[gliesian66]

Are Ilkley, Burley in Warfedale and Pool part of West Riding, Yorkshire?

Also, the attached image shows all the male Whiteheads in my tree, passing on the surname.  I myself, did not end up with the surname Whitehead as it was my Mom's name.

Does anyone know anything more about this Whitehead family from Burley?  That is, are the school photos, history books, church info, etc that I can research.

Thanks,
Robert

[pjs12]

I see dobfarm has given you information on Wharfedale.

There is a good site which may be of interest to you with regard to your relations.

http://wharfegen.org.uk

Ian

[dobfarm]

Going by your seeming vague knowledge of questions about your broad maternal Ancestry in Burley in Wharfedale and your tree, seems to  suggest you have picked it up off a tree on Ancestry.com. Though someone maybe doing research on this family, it is better to do your own research, back from your mothers grandparents & great grandparents and further back through the census and BMD GRO or parish info. Then come on this website with specific questions of individual ancestors as you research or as you get stuck with one on each rung of the ladder going back in the centuries.

Ancestry.com  trees have a strong reputation of being wrong and well copied to the point that there are so many that it is considered right without proof or confirmation of being right.

As you do your own research, you build a slow picture and knowledge base of places your ancestors lived and worked.  That's part of the fun.

[Ruskie]

Try this, which is useful:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/

Or, try a google search! Or google maps uk for locations ....

That looks like an 'inherited' tree I think dobfarm.  It should still be checked though Robert as family can get it wrong too. By the way, if any of the people named in that tree are still alive, you will need to remove their names as we have a no loving person policy on rootschat. If you don't. A moderator will remove the whole image. 

[dobfarm]

It look like green leaf inherited Ancestry.com (or co.uk) to me  (Push the  slide bar over to the right under the tree)

[Craclyn]

I think some of you are jumping to conclusions here just because gliesiean66 has posted an image with some ancestry boxes. He has his own tree and is doing his own research. I recommended to him a couple of weeks ago that he should try rootschat to get some additional local advice.

[dobfarm]

Burley in Wharfedale in a chapelry of the  parish register of Otley in the county of York in the West Riding of Yorkshire England.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Otley/

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/WRY/Burleyinwharfedale.html

http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/documents/archives/Collections%20Guide%201.pdf

http://catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/advanced.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

http://www.ukbmdsearch.org.uk/

https://familysearch.org/

A lot of these parish registers for West Yorkshire with original micro filmed views are on Ancestry. com (or .co.uk) to confirm inherited tree info is correct

But again getting your early ground work correct of FH foundations confirmed correct with Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates, Parish baptisms, Marriages and Burials, Newspaper BMD's, Cemetery records, Cremation records, Graveyard headstones, Burial & Sexton records, Electoral registers etc with the aid of personal family history gathered from relatives before starting going further back from the 1911 census is crucial