I posted a photo last week of Rothwell’s market cross – a replica of the medieval one, which originally was close to the current site. I have several census returns where the address is simply “Near Crop” or “New Cross”, or maybe they are the same? In the following instances, they look quite distinct: In…
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One of the tasks I wanted to accomplish in West Yorkshire was to visit and photograph houses and areas where my ancestors had lived. I had a lot of addresses from censuses and certificates, copies of old maps from Rothwell Library, and Google Maps. Of course, many of the old buildings are gone, and streets…
In my last post, I shared my daughter’s discovery of the gravestone of my 4 x great grandparents, George and Elizabeth Kemp, while on holiday in West Yorkshire over the summer. We found it in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist in Oulton. On returning home, I decided to see if I could find…
Whilst on our trip around West Yorkshire over the summer, my kids and I checked out St John the Evangelist church in Oulton, near Rothwell. It’s a lovely looking church from the outside, and the graveyard is mostly well kept and fun to play hide and seek in. I gave my seven and four year…
Rothwell’s parish church was built around 1130AD, though it’s thought to be the third such building on the site. It was in this church that my great grandmother, Elsie Nunns, was baptised on December 27th, 1896, exactly one month after she was born. Many of her family were baptised and married in the church, and…
My 3 x great grandfather, Henry Nunns, was a coal miner, and his father and brothers worked in the mines as well. One of the highlights of my recent Yorkshire trip was visiting the National Coal Mining Museum near Wakefield, to find out what Henry’s working life might have been like. If your ancestors had…
Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
I have spent the last four days in West Yorkshire, visiting places that are connected with my great grandmother, Elsie Nunns. She was born in 1896, in Rothwell, which is where I began my search. At this point in the post, I was hoping to wax lyrical about the marvellous folk at the Rothwell Arts…