Hipperholme 15th century

[clayton bradley]

I have found every reference I can to Broadleys from 1362, when the first of the line, John Brodeleghe, was Constable of Ovenden, to the 1650s when our direct ancestor had left Yorkshire for Darwen in Lancashire. My cousin and I have bought wills, disputes, manorial records for Shelf, articles from HAS, YAHS, books, and read every reference online. (And aalt, for which many thanks.) I have put together every family I can but am stuck on William and Richard Bro(a)dley who had children in Northowram/Shelf mid 1500s but may have been born in Lightcliffe in Hipperholme. Unfortunately it seems there are no surviving manorial records for Hipperholme. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to help with the 1400s? The Y-DNA project proves we can get back to 1362.

[arthurk]

George Redmonds, in his Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, mentions:

- Henry Brodle of Ovenden in 1379 (from Poll Tax records - he refers to a 3-part work edited by C.C. Fenwick and published by the British Academy between 1998 and 2005)
- John Brodeleghe of Hipperholme in 1456 (from Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield)

I've no idea whether there would be further information in those documents enabling you to join up the line, or whether they would prove to be a few isolated snapshots.

[clayton bradley]

Thank you very much, arthurk. Yes the 1379 reference is the second to the family which exists. Henry was John's older son and John was John's younger son. Henry's family lived in Ovenden and then Halifax itself, while his brother John moved to Hipperholme. For some time after all the references are to John Brodelegh of Hipperholme or John Brodeleghe the younger, who was Henry's son. It is easy to distinguish them. In 1433 John Brodelegh inherited from his father, John of Hipperholme and died himself in 1456.
It seems our direct ancestors were younger sons of younger sons and don't appear in the Manor Court Rolls or very seldom.