Hi Barbara,
Well, I adre the work you and your daughter (and others) do, so you well deserve to sit out the raiy weather and enjoy the festive season!
My connection with Pateley Bridge is tenuous and somewhat curious, but of some interest to anyone interested in the local history!
Old William was something of a master engineer. During his long career he worked in Norway, won an award from the King of the Belgians for work on their 1851 Great Exhibition exhibit, and worked in various parts of northern England, before settling in Pateley Bridge in the 1870's. Around that time his daughter, Sarah, married a fellow called Alfred Boyle, of Bradford, my paternal great-grandfather, whose surname I share. By the early 1880's, William was manager of the Boyle Brothers Mill at Fellbeck. For a long time I thought the name of the mill was a mere coincidence, but earlier this year I discovered that the owner of the Boyle Mill was in fact a second cousin to Alfred, William's son-in-law. I still don't know whether this is a coincidence or whether this was a family job for an elderly engineer who wanted to settle down. Later, during the early years of the 20th century, he managed the Glasshouses Mill, and retired in his 90's!
Meanwhile, I have a connection with Boroughbridge - one of Alfred Boyle's sisters (Eliza Wright) moved there in the 1890s, and their father (James Boyle)moved in with her around 1900, dying there in 1907 (but he is buried in Leeds). So those are my Boyles and Nobles, in Pateley Bridge and Boroughbridge - none of them hailing from there, but gravitating there in later life.
Cheers
Tim