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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #18 on: Friday 19 June 15 13:06 BST (UK) »
To confirm the situation at Claremont. Yorkshire Archaeological Society
https://www.yas.org.uk/content/archives.html
From 1 October 2014 the Archives will be closed.

We are currently preparing our archive collections for transfer to the University of Leeds Special Collections. Regrettably, we are not able to answer any enquiries, undertake research and copy orders, or provide archive appointments. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

We plan that our archive collections will become accessible again in 2016 through the University of Leeds. Details of how to access YAS collections at the University of Leeds will be available later this year on our website.
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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #19 on: Friday 19 June 15 14:25 BST (UK) »
Just for ref Huddersfield University has its own Library and Archive now - local history and family history.   Awesome

http://welcome.hud.ac.uk/documents/localandfamilyhistoryguidev1WEB.swf
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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #20 on: Friday 19 June 15 14:41 BST (UK) »
Yes -- isn't this Kirklees Archives.

I discovered that a whole lot of old Parish records -- NOT registers, were stored here for Mirfield. Churchwardens accounts, Guardians records etc etc and employed a Professional Researcher to speed read them picking out any Illingworth records. (Also to check if MIs were there, which they weren't).

Cost me good money, but it was worth it to me in view of the time I would have spent travelling backwards and forwards and the sheer number of separate sets of records held.
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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #21 on: Friday 19 June 15 15:10 BST (UK) »
Well there is WYAS Kirklees archives with the public library building and Huddersfield (Kirklees) Uni buildings Library/Archives

Illingworth - some MI's are outside the St Mary church on stone slabs stacked on top of one one another or in the steps half hidden.  ;D

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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #22 on: Friday 19 June 15 15:19 BST (UK) »
Pennines: If it's any help, I have a book (in PDF format) containing Mirfield Registers from ancient 1500's to 1756.
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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #23 on: Friday 19 June 15 19:59 BST (UK) »
Hi Brian,

Everybody on this Board is so very kind and helpful.

However I am such a 'nerd' that I have purchased, or have access to, the Mirfield (and every other parish I need!) -- registers. It's the other types of records that give me problems with not living in the area.

But thank you Brian -- and if I can ever help anyone with Lancashire records, please don't hesitate to ask. I would like to repay all your kindness if I can.

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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #24 on: Friday 19 June 15 20:06 BST (UK) »
My Great Great Great Granduncle (Thomas Nevin) was a curate at Mirfield in the 1860's and 1870's
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 21 June 15 15:24 BST (UK) »
I have a lot of Mirfield ancestors, many found from spending hours reading back through two centuries of parish records on Ancestry!  Interesting to hear of these other resources, thanks to those who have shared them. :-)

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Re: Mirfield MIs
« Reply #26 on: Friday 10 July 15 17:25 BST (UK) »
Hello Pennines,
The Huddersfield & District Family History Society have a VERY extensive collection of records on Fiche - far more than those published as booklets.  Why not give them a ring.  Their opening hours are on their website.
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