Twitcher Clough,Bingley, W.Yorks

[hudsonj]

thankyou for clarifying that brian, I don't think it was pitcher clough then, I don't think the same spelling mistake could have been repeated so many times, will keep digging,
regards.

[dobfarm]

I don't remember exactly where it was, but remember as a kid we used to go to  'Cat stones ring' at 'Twitchers' as a kid, somewhere near Harden.

So many years ago! I can't give (remember)  any more info.

[PaulineJ]

OK, so parish registers, yet was it the main parish church or was it a chapelry?

Harden's getting closer, though.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=58108
Pauline

[hudsonj]

thankyou pauline and dobfarm, I thnk it is parish registers but will confirm that....most of the names of persons on the burial record come from castlefields, morton, mortonbank, micklethwaite, harden and gilstead, so I think we are very close with Harden...Dobfarm, you might just have nailed it for us....i will pass on this information, thankyou also for the link to megolithic pauline.
regards.
J

[sallyyorks]

Hi there everyone
I hope i'm not throwing a wrong spanner in the works here  but i have an Elijah (Butterfield) baptised Keighley Parish  29 aug  1787 mother Martha Butterfield .
On the image it does look like "Pitchers Clough" to me ( the Oldfield area of Keighley Parish)  and this does fit in with the area this branch of my family are living in on other records.
All the best

[hudsonj]

Many thanks sallyyorks, any info at all is helpful when we are digging in the dark! I have kept it on my file for future reference, although I think possibly oldfield might be too far away from Bingley- Bingley is the one constant, but I have also learnt not to discount any options at all!
thankyou for your interest,
regards.

[dobfarm]

Only Clough, Gorge or narrow Ravine in that area I can see is

Deep cliffe, (NOW ! Wood in between) lower crag, Upper crag and top of  'Moore hedge high side'! (Road)

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C832FE9E-7BAB-4E1A-8152-6A7A47BF1573/0/HardenMoor.pdf

http://megalithix.wordpress.com/tag/bingley/

[dobfarm]

Hi Hudson

I'll view both BT & Church entries  registers this spring.

Register deeds Places index at Wakefield and Tax Rolls at YAS Leeds

Been checking these Wright's out from Rootsweb (Very old info)

From USA LDS

Info from BT's Bingley register not the church register. so both need viewing

Agnes Wright bapt  5th Dec 1736 (abode Denholme) Thornton registers.

married David Wright 23 March 1761 Bingley BT register
(Rootsweb have the date as Dec 1760  )

David Wright Bapt unknown on Rootsweb

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From Roots web
Agnes WRIGHT
Sex: F
Birth: in Denholme, WRY
Christening: 5 Dec 1736 Thornton
Death: in Swicher Clough
Burial: 21 Aug 1775 Bingley


Father: Peter WRIGHT b: 1702
Mother: Hannah TASKER

Marriage 1 David WRIGHT
Married: 28 Dec 1760 in Bingley 


Children
 JOSEPH WRIGHT b: in Switcher Clough c: 17 Mar 1762 in Bingley
 JOHN WRIGHT b: in Switcher Clough c: 19 Feb 1764 in Bingley
 JAMES WRIGHT b: in Swicher Clough c: 20 Oct 1765 in Bingley
 DAVID WRIGHT b: in Swicher Clough c: 17 Jan 1768 in Bingley
 PETER WRIGHT b: in Swicher Clough c: 21 Jan 1770 in Bingley
 JONAS WRIGHT b: in Swicher Clough c: 19 Mar 1772 in Bingley
 DAVID WRIGHT b: in Swicher Clough c: 22 May 1774 in Bingley

Husband

David WRIGHT
 
Death: in Twitcher Clough
Burial: 4 Aug 1773 Bingley

[dave the tyke]

I found this some time ago whilst surfing for information about Toll Gates, it clarifies the position of the Oldfield Pitcher Clough.

'If the gate were positioned on the Stanbury side, traffic from Keighley to Colne would be able to evade payment. If the gate were on the Colne side, traffic from Haworth and Stanbury to Keighley could avoid tolls by using the track through Pitcher Clough and Oldfield which rejoined the Harehill road at Pickles Hill.'

Note that from Dobfarm's information the location above at Stanbury / Haworth / Keighley seems unlikely.

Dave