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Title: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: Gritter on Monday 13 August 07 20:46 BST (UK)
Ok... I have an old photo of a Thomas Ackroyd of 2 Vicarage Street, Leeds, and I now believe he must have been born some time between about 1870 and 1900. 

Can anyone please give me any information on this man, or on where exactly Vicarage Street is in Leeds or can anyone link an Ackroyd family to that area??

I had a look at the 1881 census to no avail  - any info that might help me find his link to my family welcome!!
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: brer on Monday 13 August 07 23:52 BST (UK)
Do you know when he lived at Vicarage Street?  The problem is...if we take the 1891 for example...and we assume he was born in Leeds...there's at least 2 possibilities.  Do you know when/who he married?  it might be worth getting his marriage cert to see what his dad was called and then it might be easier to figure out which one is him.

~ Claire
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: Gritter on Tuesday 14 August 07 14:22 BST (UK)
Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about him, except that he lived at 2 Vicarage Street, Leeds, and I have a photot of him with this address on the back.  Would just love to know how or where he fits into my family...

Have now been told that photos as postcards didnt come about till 1905, so that would mean he couldnt have been born till after about 1885, I think...
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: colaine on Tuesday 14 August 07 22:43 BST (UK)
my grandfather was Thomas Ackroyd.   He was born in 1893 Warley . west yorkshire
I know that he worked on the railway in Leeds for a while
I will try to get more information and get back to you

Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: Gritter on Wednesday 15 August 07 13:17 BST (UK)
I will scan my picture of him into the computer and post it here this evening - keeping my fingers crossed!!
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: Gritter on Friday 17 August 07 19:54 BST (UK)
... and here he is...
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: colaine on Sunday 19 August 07 16:22 BST (UK)
I have made enquiries with my family but no-one seems to relate with your photo.  My Grandfather Thomas Ackroyd left leeds around 1921 and came back to Halifax.  I think that the man on the photo looks a bit too young to be him.

sorry
Elaine
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: Gritter on Sunday 19 August 07 18:46 BST (UK)
No problem! 

Thanks for getting back to me - dont even know when this chap was born, but in the larger photo he has a bowler hat, if that helps anyone date it!

Cheers for looking anyway!
Title: Re: Thomas Ackroyd, Vicarage Street, Leeds
Post by: AiredalePete on Tuesday 16 December 08 05:48 GMT (UK)
Hi Gritter

My wife has four Thomas ACKROYDs in her family history:

b. 1824 in Rothwell
b. 1862, son of the above
1872 - 1884, the son of Frederick ACKROYD. Address in 1881: 5 Reuben Street, Leeds.
b. 1893 (Thomas Herbert ACKROYD) the son of Walter William ACKROYD and Sarah J.C. DOBBY:

Name:    Ackroyd, Thomas Herbert
Record Type:    Births
Quarter:    September
Year:    1893
District:    Leeds (1837-1929)
County:    West Riding of Yorkshire
Volume:    9b
Page:    513

Vicarage Street is at Headingley, Leeds 5:

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