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Title: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire (COMPLETED)
Post by: Christine in Portugal on Monday 03 July 06 14:19 BST (UK)

Does anyone know where Pigburn is?

Thanks, Christine

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: Tati on Monday 03 July 06 14:24 BST (UK)

Hi Christine,

Have found this on genuki:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Brodsworth/Brodsworth22.html

Tanja  :)

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: Nessie on Monday 03 July 06 14:26 BST (UK)

Beat me to it Tanja :)

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: Christine in Portugal on Monday 03 July 06 14:28 BST (UK)

Thanks, but have no idea where Brodsworth is and I am from West Riding
 
          Christine

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: Christine in Portugal on Monday 03 July 06 14:32 BST (UK)

Have just looked on that website and found it's near Doncaster. Thanks again

                      Christine

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: gah on Tuesday 04 July 06 21:35 BST (UK)

 Hi i think you will find it's PICKBURN not Pigburn , not far away from Marr , Nr Doncaster , or just down the road from Brodsworth Hall (depending on which way you come from ) it's a small villiage , i live quite near

    gah

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: Christine in Portugal on Tuesday 04 July 06 23:45 BST (UK)

Hi gah,
            Thanks for that information, wonder if the name has changed over the years as Genuki list it as Pigburn or Pickburn.

           

             I used to visit Doncaster when I was young as my mother had relatives living in Toll Bar, Bentley. I am actually trying to find out just what relation they were but without success at the moment.

                       Christine

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire
Post by: behindthefrogs on Wednesday 05 July 06 15:40 BST (UK)

Message me please if you have an interest in a family of that name including its variants

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire (COMPLETED)
Post by: dobbiesoates on Wednesday 02 October 24 13:32 BST (UK)

Its now called Pickburn, 2 miles from Adwick le Street. I have it on an ancestors death registration as being called Pigburn in 1838. The farm may have been Pigburn, now called Elms Farm?

Title: Re: Pigburn. Where is it in Yorkshire (COMPLETED)
Post by: AlanBoyd on Wednesday 02 October 24 14:09 BST (UK)

The earliest newspaper reference to Pigburn that I have found is: 11 January 1785: Leeds Intelligencer, an item advertising the sale of an estate:
 

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situate at Pigburn, in the parish of Brodsworth, in the said County of York.

Despite the earliest OS map, 1854, showing it as Pickburn, the name Pigburn seems to have survived well into the 20th century. In the 26 June 1942 issue of the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer there is an item detailing the awards of West Riding County Minor Scholarships which, under Adwick-le-Street, includes one boy from Brodsworth-with-Pigburn.

On the other hand, Pickburn has also been used for a long time. The first newspaper item is from 26 July 1828: Sheffield Independent, describing the route of the Roman road between Doncaster and Castleford:

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It may be traced in an unbroken line over Scawsby and Pickburn Lees. It divides the two parishes of Brodsworth and Adwick

and an 1845 item refers to "Pigburn or Pickburn".