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Title: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: jacques on Wednesday 30 January 08 15:53 GMT (UK)
Please any kind person help surmount Mount Everest rather than brickwall.

Looking for SHELL EDGE  Yorkshire as location of baptism.

Family moved around from Yorkshire to Northumberland and back.

Thanks for your time reading this.

Pam
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: Mumsie2131 on Wednesday 30 January 08 18:30 GMT (UK)
I can't really help but I know Hade Edge in the West Riding and also a Harrop Edge in Cheshire, they are usually the Edge of a ridge - I think the Shell therefore could refer to a coastal place.
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: PaulineJ on Wednesday 30 January 08 18:42 GMT (UK)

perhaps if you reveal how you got to this particular obstacle?

Which family & when? what record(s) state Shell edge?

Pauline
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: IOW Maiden on Wednesday 30 January 08 20:50 GMT (UK)
If memory doesn't desert me isn't there a Shelley which is near Kirkburton,
I know from looking for baptisms myself it was sometimes referred to as Bank End Shelley and Hilltop Shelley.
regards IOW maiden.
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: jacques on Wednesday 30 January 08 23:23 GMT (UK)
Thanks everyone.
In reply to PaulineJ's question
A baptism entry St Michaels Church Alnwick Northumberland for a John George Kirk 1801 against parents George Kirk and Frances (nee Dudney) it gave Shell Edge Yorkshire and Dublin Ireland.

Several of the Kirk family left Sheffield for Northumberland and then some returned to Sheffield
I have a Marriage for George and Frances c 1779 at Northumberland which haven't been able to confirm, no record at Alnwick.  Both George and Frances worked at Alnwick Castle from about 1779 to early 1800's.

Apppreciate all your comments, looking forward to solving this mystery with the help of rootschatters.

Pam
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: PaulineJ on Thursday 31 January 08 10:41 GMT (UK)

So "Shell Edge" is the stated parish for the father at this 1801 baptism.
And the father's family are associated with Sheffield.
This infers that the region to concentrate on would also be around Sheffield...

How clear is the baptism record?;
before we set off on a wild goose chase is there any possibility that they record could be interpreted as 'Sheffield".

Pauline
Title: Re: Yorkshire Brickwall re location name
Post by: broakham on Thursday 31 January 08 15:05 GMT (UK)
   Let's not forget the village of Shelf, near Halifax.
 
    Dave