Yorkshire PRs

[HarrysMum]

I have this week off work with only the slight job of keeping eight year old grandie company.


So....I am determined to find a bit more on OH's lot.....the Naylors and Eyres.

I'm looking for records from pre 1795 when they married by licence.

Their only two children were baptised non-con in 1796 and 1797.

Area I have them is Cleckheaton.

Does anyone know where I can find anything for this area in this time??

[kiterunner]

According to GENUKI, it would be Birstall parish at that time.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS...all/index.html

And the Birstall St Peter records are on ancestry in the West Yorkshire collection! Loads of Naylors in there but not many Eyres - the nearest I can see on the pre-1813 database is an Eyer.

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Kite...is that Ancestry??

My Ancestry sub expired and I've not decided what to get.

In Google books there is a marriage notice for Elizabeth Eyre and George Naylor. They marry 14th May 1795 Birstall. The notice says.....

Elizabeth Eyre, daughter of a merchant of this town married George Naylor.

Of course it doesn't say what town or the merchant's name...lol

Both Elizabeth and George were quite old for first marriages. George was 56 and Elizabeth 39.
That is from their ages at death. I have both their wills and there seems to be no other children from other marriages. I'm fairly certain from the notice in Google books that at least Elizabeth was not married before. She passed on all the Eyre crests, jewellery etc.

[kiterunner]

Er yes, ancestry is the same as Ancestry! Now I remember, that marriage is the one where ancestry have Elizabeth Eyre indexed as "Parson Brittell"! It actually says on the marriage entry Mr George Naylor of ClickHeaton in the Parish of Birstall and Miss Elizabeth Eyre of the parish of Wakefield. Witnesses William Birkby and Joseph Shaw (serial witness). The Mr and Miss before their names are a mark of higher social status as the rest of the brides and grooms don't have them.

[HarrysMum]

Sorry Kite...lol. Blame 8 year olds....lol

I was actually hoping that William Birkby was Kirkby and somehow could tie in with this family later...

It's really pre that 1795 marriage I'm after. I've emailed a few Yorkshire FH places about getting the actual licence (hoping it had fathers' names) but never had a reply.

[Merry]

I know this is a lot further back, but I wonder what the content of this will might tell you? (it's a PCC one at TNA)

Will of Mathew Naylor, Yeoman of Cleckheaton, Yorkshire 16 April 1650 PROB 11/212

I can't help wondering what this one is all about:

Will of Ann Walsh otherwise Eyre otherwise Cooke, Widow of Wakefield , Yorkshire 09 July 1808 PROB 11/1483

It's 8 pages long I think!!

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Merry.

I'll get those....hopefully they are on The Gen sub...lol

The Ann Walsh one (I'll get anyway) doesn't seem to fit with mine. George Naylor died in 1806 and I have his will. His wife died in Bristol in 1829 and I have her will.

I've never found a burial for their son, George b 1796, but he
s not mentioned on his father's will and would have only been 10 years old so presume he died before then.

[Kit]

Libby do you have the marriage paperwork? I can email it to you.

[Janet]

Libby, have you looked at this book? There is a chapter on "Scholes, a hamlet in the township of Cleckheaton and the parish of Birstal" (pp. 93-99). Has prominent Naylors, including a George, and Birkbys. Even if they're not your exact people (though I think they might be), it's pretty interesting background. Tells a lot about the neighborhood. And this one is not snippets, and it's searchable. If you search all the names and places you're interested in you'll find other mentions outside that one chapter.

http://books.google.com/books?id=WYp...page&q&f=false

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Janet.......When i click that link, I can see the Index (with Scholes.....and even more importantly, CLAYTON) but I can't work out how to actually read it.

I'm usually good with Google Books...lol