Thanks LizzieL,
I'll have to investigate the newspapers. It would have been a shock to his parishioners to find out!
David, I was looking for any Births, Marriages and Deaths for anyone with the surname JOY, especially if they came from Greenhow Hill in Bewerley, just across the river Nidd. I know there was a branch of the JOYs in Bishopside, but I have yet to find the connection.
Keith