Family history - Hearfield, Knight and Briggs individuals, marriages, stories and history
Family data
Hearfield ancestors
The history of my Hearfield ancestors, from Peter (b. Hampsthwaite 1668) plus a table of marriages with links to individuals.
Data on Hearfield
A large table of data on Hearfield family members (split across 3 pages).
Data on Knight
A large table of data on Knight family members from Westmorland (split across 2 pages).
Data on Briggs
A large table of data on Briggs family members from Cumberland (split across 3 pages).
History
The Leeds gas strike of 1890
Everyone relied on coal gas for lighting, and to power factories. What happened when the workers decided to stop making it?
Prisoner No.39 (on bail)
Samuel Whitehead Hearfield and the small misunderstanding with the Brighton Union Bank.
The parish of Adel
Population trends, a map, a flood, and the first railway engine in the world.
Nidderdale
How the family name of Hearfield came into existence in the 17th century.
Otley vestry meetings
Vestry meetings in the early 19th century were the beginnings of local government.
| Head | Connections | Head | Connections |
| James, 1640 | Burnett, Addiman, Burdsall, Millthorpe, Abbey | Samuel, 1698 | Burnett, Bickerdyke, Bedford, Hudson, Dobson, Greaves |
| Joseph, 1717 | Abbey, Ward, Clark, Cass, Hill | Samuel, 1733 | Bickerdyke, Hudson, Guest, Driver, Asquith |
| James, 1735 | Bedford, Goodbourn | Thomas, 1738 | Hudson, Dodgson, Whitehead, Craven, Wade, Balgey, Green, Graveley, Bailey, Garrett, Thompson, Marshall |
| Robert, 1746 | Ward, Hogg, Ragg, Shipway, Thornton | Samuel, 1773 | Whitehead, Simpson, Riley, Foster, Sykes, Duxberry, Blakeborough |
| David, 1776 | Goodbourn, Kelsey, Bee, Garniss, Gunson | William, 1783 | Graveley, Chadwick, Tate, Bickerdyke, Baxter |
| David, 1787 | Garrett, Brook, West | Samuel & Ellen | Newspaper stories about Samuel Whitehead Hearfield and his wife |
| SWH, 1820 | Blakeborough, Langan | John H, 1835 | Mace, Blades, Woods, Hurst, Longton, Hardy - & New Zealand |
| John H, 1882 | The solicitor at Hessle | JKH, 1944 | Five generations - my 62 direct ancestors |
| Neville KNIGHT | A cousin on my mother's side | Ancestors | Nine generations, back to 1640 |
| Joe KNIGHT (1879-1946) | A professional soldier, from Ladysmith through to the end of the Great War in France - and my grandfather | ||