PastToPresentGenealogy
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Specialising in West Yorkshire ancestry, including Irish immigration, and Great War ancestors. AGRA Associate.
PastToPresentGenealogy
3w ago
This is the latest Batley St Mary’s one-place update, looking at the posts added in February 2023. The update also contains links to all the posts in the study to date. If you are new to to this one-place study ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
1M ago
This is the latest Batley St Mary’s one-place update, looking at the posts added in January 2023. The update also contains links to all the posts in the study to date. If you are new to to this one-place study ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
2M ago
Over 24 hours later and I’m full of remorse. Not over an auction purchase. Rather over an item I stopped bidding on. The item for sale with Mellors and Kirk, Nottingham, was described as: Batley, Yorkshire. An album of photographs ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
2M ago
If you are interested in family history, please do read. This post is not what it may at first seem to be. Few people in UK and the United States will have avoided the media frenzy surrounding the publication of ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
2M ago
At the start of January 2022 many of us were eagerly awaiting the 1921 Census release, so we could find out about our families in post-Great War England and Wales. I wrote about the background to this census and what ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
2M ago
The Batley St Mary’s one-place study hit a major milestone in December 2022 – the two hundredth post was published, a little over two years after the study started. More of that later. If you are new to to this ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
3M ago
Batley Baths, on Cambridge Street, regularly feature in my St Mary’s One-Place Study news update posts, with mentions of the various school swimming competitions at which St Mary’s schoolchildren excelled. The facility, even in its early days, was an integral ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
4M ago
This is the latest Batley St Mary’s one-place study update. If you want to know more about the background to this one-place study click here. Otherwise read on to discover all the posts, new and old, containing a wealth of parish ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
4M ago
Family historians will ‘get’ the feeling of pure elation I felt one damp Tuesday afternoon in Northumberland in late November 2022. The changeable weather that day prompted a post-lunch visit to Kirkharle Courtyard. These converted 18th century stone farm buildings ..read more
PastToPresentGenealogy
8M ago
In my post Batley’s First Air Raid – The Night of 12/13 December 1940, I wrote about the areas of Batley hit. Since then I have pinpointed many of the affected buildings, houses and addresses, including a general summary of the ..read more