Yorkshire place name - help please

[hanes teulu]

Several newspaper items about the Black Bull Inn at Birstal Church

[Macushla]

Thank you all so much for your help. I thought it was Birstal(l) Church but I was confused as John Rhodes was not a Minister or Rector. Much appreciated.
Tickettyboo thanks for the hint re Ancestry, that will come in very handy.
hanes telu, may I please ask where you found the newspaper articles?
AlanBoyd, are you able to tell me where I might be able to look at the tithe map?

Again, thanks to all for your help. Very excited to learn more about my Yorkshire ancestry.

[AlanBoyd]

PM sent

[hanes teulu]

Newspapers are online at British Newspaper Archive (BNA) or FindMyPast.
You can search BNA free, which delivers an extract of any item found. But to view the original requires subscription/pay.
Dewsbury Reporter, 16 Apr 1870

[AlanBoyd]

Seems that the farm was called Rectory Farm, and that John Rhodes was there until his death.

22 January 1881: Dewsbury Reporter

[AlanBoyd]

This suggests that John Rhodes had died by 1862, so the previous item doesn't relate to his recent (in 1881) death.

30 April 1862: Blackburn Standard

On the 24th instant, at the Parish Church, Halifax, by the Ven. Archdeacon Musgrave, D. D: Robert, eldest son of the late Mr. John Rhodes, Rectory House, Birstal, Yorkshire, to Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Fred. Highley, of Halifax.

[AlanBoyd]

His probate is dated 23rd January 1861 and gives his death as 14th December 1859, "..late of Birstal Church in the township of Gomersal in the county of York, Land and Mineral Surveyor Farmer and Coal Merchant." Mentioned are wife Nancy Rhodes and son Robert Rhodes Land and Mineral Surveyor.

[AlanBoyd]

From the Scarborough Gazette, 14 October 1880, in a List Of Visitors. Mrs Rhodes, Rectory House, Birstall staying at no. 9 New Queen Street. The house is run by a Mrs Nash and there are two other ladies staying there: a Mrs Prince of Lowmoor and a Mrs Roberts of Cleckheaton. All three are newly arrived that week.

Lowmoor and Cleckheaton are close enough to Gomersal that they could be friends who were visiting together.

[AlanBoyd]

25 September 1888: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer

RHODES,—At Laburnham Cottage, Birstal, aged 82, Nancy, relict of the late John Rhodes of Rectory House. — Will be interred Birstal Church to-morrow (Wednesday), 26th inst., at 12 o'clock. Friends please accept this intimation.