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Sources of Information
These are stored on a separate sister site which is up loaded from my master database
at irregular intervals when enough changes have been made to warrant this; consequently
it will lag behind this one in content. To access the sources site please go to: 
http://greenhowsources.tribalpages.com
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Email - family@greenhow-hill.org.uk 
Password - hardcastle 

Introduction
The centre of this project is the village of Greenhow Hill, North Yorkshire, England,
the highest village in Yorkshire, at about 1200 feet above sea level and exposed in all
directions to the forces of nature: it can be warm and sunny in Pateley Bridge some 3
miles further eastward and nearly 800 feet lower while blowing a blizzard on The Hill
with snow drifting.

This project aims to record the families living there in the 19th century and before,
and follow them as they move on from the failing mining industry, in search of work in
the neighbourhood towns.

Family Origins
Work was probably the major factor influencing their movements. 
The LONSDALE family came from Weardale and the STOBBS family from Allendale, both in 
Northumberland. 
BLACKAH is said to be from Scotland.
BUSFIELD from Ravenstonedale & Brough, Westmorland. 
CALVERT & CROFT from Arkengarthdale, 
DUNN & PRATT from Wensleydale. 
The MARSHALL family are reputed to have come from Derbyshire (Source Harald Bruff & 
Harold Marshall), moving up to Grassington to work in the Duke of Devonshire's mines 
there, although I have not yet found the link. 
The WHITEHEADS too have been suggested that they came from Derbyshire (Source Harald 
Bruff), but this too has yet to be proved.

Name Variations
I decided to keep to a standard surname for each family to make linking easier without 
having to take into account variations in spelling, especially from the older sources, 
except where a family branch starts using a variation exclusively, eg Blackah.
MACKWELL is used as the preferred name for Mackrill, Mackrell, Mackriel & Mackerell. I 
have seen suggestions that MacKwell and Maxwell may be variations also, although not 
in this area.
NEWBOULD is used as the preferred name for Newbold, Newbound, Newbolt & Newboot.
IEDSON is used as the preferred name for Ideson, Eidson, Edson.
SKAIFE is used for Scaife. 
KABERRY for Kaysberry. 
LONGTHORN for Longthorne & Langthorn.
GRAINGE for Grange, although the former may just be a name variation for the Greenhow 
families, similar to Blackah.
KIRKBRIGHT for Kirkbride, which seems to be an older form.
STOREY and STONEY may well be connected, although these have formed into 2 distinct 
family lines.
Similarly with BLACKER, BLACKAH, BLAKEY although sometimes the names are 
interchangeable. BLACKHAY is an older variant.
BUSFIELD & BOUSFIELD are also left as written, although the latter is probably the
older version.

Parishes
Greenhow village can be confusing, sitting on the watershed between the Nidd 
and Wharfe valleys it was actually in 3 parishes: 

The area to the east of Kell Dyke encompassing most of the village was in the Parish 
of Ripon, Bewerley township, the mother church being St Mary's (now in ruins) in 
Pateley Bridge and later St Cuthberts. 

To the west of Kell Dyke was the Parish of Burnsall, Appletreewick township, the 
mother church being St Wilfred in Burnsall. The houses in part of the villages
included: Craven Cross House, Bar House, and the communities of Kell Houses, Lily
Green, High Farside * Low Farside (cottages on the west of Kell Dyke only - the
building nowadays know as Low Far Side is on the east side).  Kell Dyke is today the
boundary
between Harrogate District Council and Craven District Council.

Just to the south of the road at Kell Dyke Corner is part of the Parish of 
Hampsthwaite, township of Thornthwaite with Padside. This long thin part of this 
parish runs south-easterly passing Greenhow Hill Top, missing out Duck Street Cottage, 
but incorporating Redlish House. 

To complicate matters still further when St Mary's church was built at Greenhow in 
about 1858 a new Parish of St Mary's Greenhow Hill was carved out of these three. 

Thus sometimes a Greenhow person was married at Hampsthwaite - this was because they 
lived within the parish boundary at Greenhow. A Greenhow person who lists their place 
of birth as "Appletreewick" in the census was probably not born in that village some 5 
miles distant, but is merely listing the township of their birth.

When listing place of birth therefore, Pateley Bridge, Bewerley & Greenhow Hill CAN be 
interchangeable for a person born on The Hill. It isn't until the later censuses that 
Greenhow Hill became listed as the the place of birth. When this is found to be true I 
have used this, otherwise Bewerley or Pateley Bridge might be shown - the means that 
some families might show children as having been born in 3 different places.

I am frequently asked what YKS stands for, the answer is Yorkshire. It is part of the 
Chapman Coding for counties which tries to ensure a uniformity of abbreviations for 
counties. Thus Lancashire is LAN, Northumberland is NBL etc. Please see the links 
section for a link to a page which will give you all the codes.

Help Needed
If anyone can help by providing any information and/or photographs, making correction
or suggestions as to where more data can be found then please get in touch.

Thank You
To all those people who have helped in some way to build this database, be it family
trees, photographs, information, help in linking families together - I couldn't have
done it without you.

Please be aware
That the information contained in this database has been obtained from various
sources: 

1. The whole of the 1851 census for Greenhow village as well as the census for
   the years 1861-1901.
2. Baptism Records from Greenhow Wesleyan Chapel (no marriages) 
3. Marriage & Burial Records from St Mary's Church, Greenhow Hill.
4. Baptism, Marriage & Burial Records from St Mary's/St Cuthbert's Pateley Bridge.
5. Baptism, Marriage & Burial Records St Wilfred's Church, Burnsall.
6. Family trees that people have sent me and ones I have found on the internet.

The data is as correct as I can make it, but due to the uncertain nature of early
information there may be errors. I have the source citations for about 80% of this
data; this might be just a reference to someone else's tree or a link to a major source
- I will gladly provide these on request - please contact me.


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