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Many thanks to all who responded, it is very much appreciated.  I guess that the key is to be able to ensure that I can go back and cross reference where I found the information, so as long as I record any variants to the main name, people after me will be able to follow this.

Thanks again.

Graham

Please could someone advise if and where I might be able to able to get access to former York City Council workers.

My great-grandfather worked for the council after the first world war as a night watchman and I was hoping to see if there was any information available.  I'm aware there may be some data protection issues with regards to more recent records but this would be from around 1818 to 1940ish.

It may be that I need to contact City of York Council although depending on retention policies nothing may survive but thought it was worth asking.

Many thanks
Graham

Thanks to all that responded. I know that she lived in the same parish for at least the next 20 years and the parish registers available go way past then without any evidence of a baptism. I've found my aunt's baptism details from 1946 in the same parish once my grandmother had married.

I'm hoping (possibly in vain) that I might be able to find the father of the illegitimate child. He never married and my mum's cousins say they never knew who the father was although it wasn't uncommon not to talk about family history then. He had quite a unique first and middle name which doesn't appear anywhere else in my family although he seems to have been accepted by my grandfather and was eventually buried with his grand-parents in the same parish.

I'll try and search neighbouring parishes next time I'm at the record office but thanks again everyone.

Thanks for the responses.

William is recorded as a famer of 190 acres on the following 1881 Census at Moor House so if this was the same size in 1871, I would have expected him to have some people assisting him on the farm and his brother-in-law is recorded as an agricultural labourer.

The 1911 Census (where his son, Richard Henry is then living on the farm) records that there are 7 rooms in the dwelling so sounds like there would have been enough space to go round!

Hi,

I have only recently noted this thread and I realise I may be giving you information you already have, but just in case you don't...

A few years ago, I was given some information taken from the burial records for Danby Wiske Parish Church as I used to live in the village for a number of years.  This contained a number of Clark / Clarke references:

Surname     Forenames     Abode                  Date of Burial     Age
Clark          Elizabeth        South Cowton       14/10/1882        61
Clark          George           Danby Wiske        01/10/1823        65
Clark          Jane               Northallerton        18/12/1851        91
Clarke        George           Bolton on Swale    20/12/1864        59
Clarke        Mary              Darlington             29/11/1886       85
Clarke        William           Danby Wiske         03/01/1865       28

I'm a bit sceptical as to the accuracy of some of the above; however, as there is the MI below with information which varies slightly.  This appears to have been the only grave that has been transcribed.

"In remembrance of George Clark of Hewson Hill who departed this life Dec 18th 1864 aged 60 years.  Also of William Clark son of the above who departed this life Jan 1st 1865 aged 33 years"

An address of Crawford House was mentioned previously.  Whilst I'm not sure where this is, there is a road known as 'Crawford Lane' which links the Danby Wiske road to the A167 Northallerton to Darlington road (although this comes up as Crowfoot Lane on Google maps).  There is only a farm called Crawford Farm on this road and a house at the junction with the A167 so it may refer to one of these.

Hope this helps
Graham