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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) => Topic started by: rachelralph on Tuesday 15 November 11 10:44 GMT (UK)
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i have a death registered in lower agbrigg in 1951. im not sure if this is the right death as the spouse of this lady's death died only 6 years later in wakefield.
when i google lower agbrigg on google maps it gives me a street name not a town or place. are wakefield and lower agbrigg near each other please?
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See here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,135983.0.html
Cati
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Hopefully here's the definition of a Wapentake :
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Definitions/AreaDefinitions.html
Pels.
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I have rellies born Lower Agbrigg which I understand is a part of Wakefield
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Agbrigg, is about mile from the centre of Wakefield, there is a few streets off the main
agbrigg road,and a few shops, the cemetry is only a few minutes walk away, and it is classed as Wakefield, does this help
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If you look on FreeBMD for a registration in Lower Agbrigg, eg Smith in 1939, and then click on L A this will take you to the areas covered by that Registration District.
BumbleB
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thank you all for your help, i hadnt even heard of this place. xx
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It's not exactly a place as such, it's an administrative area. I doubt anyone would ever say they came from Lower Agbrigg!
Anne
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It's not exactly a place as such, it's an administrative area. I doubt anyone would ever say they came from Lower Agbrigg!
Anne
:) :)
That's exactly was I was trying to imply with my use of the link describing a Wapentake, in reply #2
Here's a quote written by Jon taken from the link Cati posted :
Agbrigg was a wapentake, an obsolete term for a sub-division of the West Riding. It was the equivalent of the term "Hundred" used in the South of England.
Upper and Lower Agbrigg seem to have stretched from Wakefield to beyond Huddersfield, although it now seems to refer specifically to a district of Wakefield.
There was a similar thread on Rootschat some months ago, if you want to search for it.
There is more information on wapentakes in Yorkshire (and a map) on Genuki.
Jon
The map that Jon referred to :
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Maps/Wapentakes1.gif
Pels.
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Hi
In basic Agbrigg was the country villages around the main towns of Pontefract, Wakefield, Dewsbury, and Huddersfield to the border with Staincross. Morley covered more villages around Halifax-Todmorden area (Not to be mixed up with Morley at Leeds)
Here is the 1811 towns in lower Agbrigg
and later 1931
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6wUSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA407&dq=lower+division+of+Agbrigg+wapentake,+West+Riding&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=lower%20division%20of%20Agbrigg%20wapentake%2C%20West%20Riding&f=false
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/upper%20agbrigg.html
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/lower%20agbrigg.html
Dobby
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lower agbrigg is the district of wakefield. i was born in horbury wakefield but says lower agbrigg. when you look at st Catherine house index you will see the district my mother was born in horbury but my mother was born in horbury on the index says wakefield. you see wakefield and lower agbrigg are the same.
i hope this is useful to you
trevor
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Hi do you know about the Scoble family who were living in lower agbrigg
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Hi do you know about the Scoble family who were living in lower agbrigg
Welcome to Rootschat :) Can you give us a bit more information about what you do now, or what you wish to know?