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Title: an old book
Post by: rowlie on Sunday 22 January 06 20:39 GMT (UK)
I have an old book, it is hand written at when ever. It has bee started at each end and is info from Leeds. It begins at one end with "The register for the Parish of Leeds begins in 1572". It contains a list of the figures for birth deaths and marriages until 1775 when presumably it was written in about 1775(see below). Among the names at the other end are details of baptisms -names - thursby/thirsbye/thoresby/thirsby/ thorsby/ (all seemingly from Kirkgate). Baptized ,married ,buried. The last but one says " 1763 .My father  Thos.Thursbywas buried Jun3'd 1763. He was born May18'th 1684.
The last- 1770 Father Bedsdale buried Oct 2'd. My uncle Jose green and his sister my mother both buried Feb 20th 1771.

I have decided to part with this book in an appropriate manner, it has to go to the right place. No money is involved. Advice needed !!!
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: Little Nell on Sunday 22 January 06 20:44 GMT (UK)
Please, give it to an archive - sounds as if West Yorkshire would be appropriate.  They will know how to conserve it best. It sounds wonderful.

Nell
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: Burrow Digger on Monday 23 January 06 02:27 GMT (UK)


Archive CD Books in Gloucester can preserve it and then make the records available on CD as pdf files.  :)

http://www.archivecdbooks.org/

UK site
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/

Burrow Digger
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: PrueM on Monday 23 January 06 02:34 GMT (UK)
Hi Rowlie,
I agree with Nell - it should go to the relevant county archive or record office.  Perhaps donors (such as yourself) can request that the donation be digitised as a priority, or at least written into the workplan, so that you know it's going to be of some use - particularly the personal information contained therein.
Maybe you could also photograph or scan, or even just transcribe, the Throsby info and post it here in a new thread.  Someone might pick up on it and find a connection.
Cheers
Prue
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: rowlie on Monday 23 January 06 07:48 GMT (UK)


Archive CD Books in Gloucester can preserve it and then make the records available on CD as pdf files.  :)

http://www.archivecdbooks.org/

UK site
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/  Don't tell a vorester thet Cinderford is Gloucester. Cinderford is in the Vorest uv Dean  ole butt. Still I'll  dothis and then W Yorks records can have it

Burrow Digger
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: brassbounder on Thursday 26 January 06 22:18 GMT (UK)
The Thoresbys were a well known and important Leeds family. Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) was the first historian of the town, and the local historical society is the Thoresby Society, named after him, based at Leeds University.

I would contact them in the first instance.

Jon

Title: Re: an old book
Post by: loo on Friday 27 January 06 00:36 GMT (UK)
I would check and see if this record is available anywhere else - has it already been filmed?  I don't know where you got it but sometimes I have seen old books thrown away after being microfilmed - when I asked about it, I was told the paper was too brittle for the books to be used.
If it has not been copied, I would go to my nearest substantial archive repository and show it to the senior archivist and see what s/he has to say about what would be best for making the information publicly available, if it is not already available.  Bigger archives tend to have better storage facilities.
Let us know what you decide and how it goes.

Title: Re: an old book
Post by: rowlie on Friday 27 January 06 09:10 GMT (UK)
The Thoresbys were a well known and important Leeds family. Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) was the first historian of the town, and the local historical society is the Thoresby Society, named after him, based at Leeds University.

I would contact them in the first instance.

Jon  I looked for refs on  webto the Leeds registers and it seems they don't go back that far. Maybe this makes the book even more essential to keep. I  will try to find the society and let them have it I think .They will keep and treasure it I am sure. I also have another book, Leeds based, in the family papers , dated 1755. I am certain the Gillespies have got a relationship to him since it is likely one of my forebears got this by inheritance . Either way I seem to have got something that must be kept. Thanks for the great info. Rollo


Title: Re: an old book
Post by: samt on Sunday 29 October 06 01:25 BST (UK)
Hi rowlie
I just joined and was wondwering what have you done with the old book


Sam
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: rowlie on Thursday 02 November 06 13:09 GMT (UK)
I sent it to the Thoresby Society.They were glad to have it
Title: Re: an old book
Post by: rowlie on Saturday 31 January 09 17:04 GMT (UK)
The subject gets even more interesting than this.  A year ago I attended a Thoresby Society meeting as the guest of Professor Peter Meredith their libarian. Six months before I donated an archive of letters from Lucy Thursby to a Rev TD Whittaker. The part I did not know was that TD Whittaker wrote the other part of the history. The book Thursby wrote has 2 parts.  I donated the diary/journal to them then.  It gets even better now  ;D   Because the journal mentions a cousin  Joseph Green and is of course in part about Lisbon earthquake in 1755, Peter Meredith has been able to identify the author as being Ralph Thoresby's son. That is because the society has a letter in archive  to Thoresby's son, from Joseph Green enquiring about his trip to Portugal.  Lucy did of course marry TDW and my letters were a subject of PM's evening society meeting in Feb 2008.  PM hopes that the letters will be published as a society book in due course.  I am of course descended from TDW and LT as well.  Amazing. I have given them two items, (the letters count as one) of historical importance to Leeds