Hi again,
I'm still rather perplexed by the role of Scout Hall, as it's given as both birth/baptism place and place of death on the IGI for James KERSHAW, b.1725 and his father James KIRSHAW/KERSHAW b. "about 1697", d. 1733.
Looking at the present-day (2003) photos of this "Calendar Building" - (365 panes of glass, etc!) I'm wondering if it was some kind of seminary for prospective preachers at that time.
It certainly isn't the usual type of chapel that you'd normally associate with baptisms, etc.
Could the KERSHAW's conceivably have owned the place, or lived in part of it at that time?
I'm beginning to wonder too whether the IGI entries that indicate a marriage on 23-05-1722 between a James KERSHAW and a Martha SUGDEN (or LUGDEN!) in Halifax, and a baptism for a James KERSHAW on 27-02-1697 in Holdsworth - where was Holdsworth, exactly? - are reliable or of any relevance.
In other words, has anybody been tracing this KERSHAW in this location, and might know the answers to all/any of these questions...
Keith