Genealogy and Yorkshire West Riding, England
Contents
This page is devoted to the county of Yorkshire West Riding, England, and covers the origin of its name, an outline of its history and geography, links to other web sites concerned with the county, genealogical resources relating to the county and the same types of information in more detail for those cities, towns and villages in the county in which I have a family history interest. In doing this, it is not my intention to duplicate unnecessarily, nor to compete with, web pages which already do some of those things, but to complement such pages and provide links to them, with appropriate description of what they have to offer.
The name Yorkshire means the shire based on York. The city name is derived from the Roman name of Eboracum, which by the time of the 1086 Domesday Book had become Euruic. The original is thought most likely to mean "yew tree estate", although "estate of a man called Eburos" is also possible. West Riding comes from the Old Scandinavian West thrithjungr, meaning the western of the three thirds into which the county was divided (the others being East and North).
[To be completed - any additional information welcome]
[To be completed - any additional information welcome]
[To be completed - any additional information welcome]
The UK Genealogy Interests Directory, a new and growing facility, has a page of surname interests in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Yorkshire West Riding Lookup Exchange is a list of volunteers willing to do free lookups, as and when they have time, in resources they happen to have available to them.
[To be completed - any additional information welcome]
To appear in this section a town or village has to meet a number of criteria. First, it has to be of family history interest to me; in other words, one or more of my or my wife's ancestors lived there. Second, I must have, or have access to, the appropriate information to be able to set up the page. Third, I must have managed to find the time to do it. Finally, if I am aware that it has already been done by someone else, all that will be found here is a link to that other site.
However, for completeness sake, if the place meets the first criterion but fails on one or more of the others, then it will at least appear here as a heading, so the reader will have some idea which places may "get the treatment" at some time in the future.
COLE, 19th century, Hinchcliffe Mill and Holmfirth
COTTERILL, 19th century, Holmfirth and Sheffield
HARDY, 19th century, Sheffield
The following have provided information which I have paraphrased on this page:
C.R.J Currie and C.P.Lewis A Guide to English County Histories (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1994), ISBN 0-7509-1505-6.
A. Room: Dictionary of British Place Names (1988), ISBN 1 85605 1775.
A.D. Mills: A Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford University Press, 1991, revised 1995), ISBN 0-19-869156-4.
Browser compatibility statement
I believe web pages should be accessible to all browsers, rather than surfers being browbeaten into switching to some particular browser to see a page. (How many people would be happy if popular TV programmes could only be watched with the latest model of one particular make of TV set?). I am currently going through this site trying to achieve this as far as possible, but I do not have any means of testing it with all the dozens of browsers out there. When I think I have managed it with a page I'll include this paragraph at the end and a suitable logo at the top. If you have trouble viewing any page on this site, especially a page including this paragraph, please let me know (see my contact page), and tell me what browser (name and version) and what operating system you are using, so I can try to do something about it. Thanks.
Main links within this site:
Jim's Jottings Home Page
Genealogy and Family History | Gardening with Strange Ideas
Humour? | Politics and Philosophy | Science
Jim Fisher Summary Biography | Miscellaneous Small Items
Contact me | Map of This Site | Top of this page
A Personal Family History - People and Places