Place name not found

[Ruskie]

Lesd,

I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread on the deciphering board asking for help interpreting the above handwriting:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=689444.new#new

I hope you don't mind. 

[I can request that a modertor remove it if needs be.]

[J.R.Ellam]

Hi

Castle Houses is next to Castle Hill and about a mile to the west was Dodds Royd as mentioned before but that area was demolished.

John

[JenB]

I can't see a place name on the extract that's been posted.

I can see the names of two people and a date in November.

Am I missing something?

[Gadget]

I can't see a place name on the extract that's been posted.

I can see the names of two people and a date in November.

Am I missing something?

Agree with Jennifer - it's  the two names (Matthew and Jana) and a November date.


Gadget

[JenB]

Why where on such a good roll,  I have Matthew Shaw b Almondbury All Hallows 17 Nov 1706, father Matthew,  can no fully decipher the place where born,  it looks like Noxxxxbly .

You said it yourself - November 

[sstarr2008]

Have looked for his father in the parish registers but can not find him,  any ideas,  could he be from Scotland as Shaw seems to be a name originating there.
Lesd

I think that you will find that Shaw is a common name locally and they probably had lived in the Almondbury/Huddersfield area long before 1700. Notice that the survey of 1584 mentioned that the Shaws lived near to Dodgeroyd even then.
I would continue looking in the same area if I were you.

Stu

[bykerlads]

Whilst we've got Almondbury place names experts on the case, could I ask if anyone knows where "Heck Fold" was in 1851?
Definitely in the centre of Almondbury, probably near the church, as it was the address of the curate Soloman Briggs.
I'd be interested to know where the place is today-perhaps a different name.

[Rena]

There's mention of the place in the A2A manorial archives

Articles of Agreement  Tong/3/377  27 May 1686

These documents are held at West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

Contents:
Between Sir John Tempest of Newton Grange, Baronet, of the one part, and Richard Rayner of Milnebridge in the Parish of Birstall, tanner, James Margerison of Moorehouse in the same Parish, tanner, Jonathan Nettleton of Tong, tanner, and Richard Margerison of Tong, tanner, of the other part; in consideration of the sum of £200, all the woods etc. growing in the several woods in Tong called Goodall Wood, Lisperclough, Skitterieclough, Mayhill, the Roide, Proctor Roide, Over Lyneham, Nether Lyneham, Fallcroft, Etton Roides, Highclose and Dodgeroide.

My best guess is that the archives will have an old map which shows the exact place.

[sstarr2008]

Heck Fold:
From the Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury p129:

"Next to the Church, the first objects which claim our attention,
are buildings connected with it. The Clerk's House at the
west end has already been described (pages 71 and 72) and is
represented in the view of the Church as it was in 18 18.* It is
situated in what is called "Heck Fold;" an open space so named
from there having formerly been there a public house called " The
Heck ; " a term used for part of a Stable or " Mistal." A Cottage
belonging to the Vicar probably occupies its site. Several inferior
buildings were removed to make a drive and open space, when the
Vicarage was restored and enlarged in 1868 and 70. But " Heck
Fold " was remarkable for a Well or Pump of pure and unfailing
water, now closed up, since the Huddersfield Waterworks have
been made to supply the village, from a Reservoir situated above
Ashes Common."

So somewhere close to the Vicarage I would think.

Stu