This site is used in conjuction with that one at
 
http://greenhow302.tribalpages.com

This site contains no photographs or place of residence data, but it has 
sources of the information.


Introduction
The centre of this project is the village of Greenhow Hill, North Yorkshire, 
England, the highest village in Yorkshire, at about 1200 feet above sea level 
and exposed in all directions to the forces of nature: it can be warm and 
sunny in Pateley Bridge some 3 miles further eastward and nearly 800 feet 
lower while blowing a blizzard on The Hill with snow drifting.

This project aims to record the families living there in the 19th century and 
before, and follow them as they move on from the failing mining industry, in 
search of work in the neighbourhood towns.

Family Origins
Tracing their origins is even more interesting; work was probably the major 
factor influencing their movements. The LONSDALE family came from Weardale and 
the STOBBS family from Allendale, both in Northumberland. BLACKAH from 
Scotland, BUSFIELD from Ravenstonedale & Brough, Westmorland, CALVERT & CROFT 
from Arkengarthdale, DUNN & PRATT from Wensleydale. The MARSHALL family are 
reputed to have come from Derbyshire (Source Harald Bruff & Harold Marshall), 
moving up to Grassington to work in the Duke of Devonshire's mines there, 
although I have not yet found the link. The WHITEHEADS too have been suggested 
that they came from Derbyshire (Source Harald Bruff), but this too has yet to 
be proved.

Name Variations
MACKWELL is used as the preferred name for Mackrill, Mackrell, Mackerell, 
Mackriel. I have seen suggestions that MacKwell and Maxwell may be variations 
also, although not in this area.
NEWBOULD is used as the preferred name for Newbold & Newbound.
IEDSON is used as the preferred name for Ideson, Eidson, Edson.
STOREY and STONEY may well be connected, although these have formed into 2 
distinct family lines.
Similarly with BLACKER, BLACKAH, BLAKEY although sometimes the names are 
interchangeable. BLACKHAY is an older variant.
BUSFIELD & BOUSFIELD are also left as written, although the latter is probably 
the older version.

Parishes
Greenhow village can be confusing, sitting on the watershed between the Nidd 
and Wharfe valleys it was actually in 3 parishes: the area to the east of Kell 
Dyke encompassing most of the village was in the Parish of Ripon, Bewerley 
township, the mother church being St Mary's in Pateley Bridge (now in ruins). 
To the west of Kell Dyke was the Parish of Burnsall, Appletreewick township. 
Just to the south of the road at Kell Dyke Corner is part of the Parish of 
Hampsthwaite, township of Thornthwaite with Padside. This long thin part of 
this parish runs south-easterly passing Greenhow Hill Top, missing out Duck 
Street Cottage, but incorporating Redlish House. To complicate matters still 
further when St Mary's church was built at Greenhow in about 1858 a new Parish 
of St Mary's Greenhow Hill was carved out of these three. Thus sometimes a 
Greenhow person was married at Hampsthwaite - this was because they lived 
within the parish boundary at Greenhow. A Greenhow person who lists their 
place of birth as "Appletreewick" in the census was probably not born in that 
village some 5 miles distant, but is merely listing the township of their 
birth.

When listing place of birth therefore, Pateley Bridge, Bewerley & Greenhow 
Hill CAN be interchangeable for a person born on The Hill. It isn't until the 
later censuses that Greenhow Hill became listed as the the place of birth. 
When this is found to be true I have used this, otherwise Bewerley or Pateley 
Bridge might be shown - the means that some families might show children as 
having been born in 3 different places.

I am frequently asked what YKS stands for, the answer is Yorkshire. It is part 
of the Chapman Coding for counties which tries to ensure a uniformity of 
abbreviations for counties. Thus Lancashire is LAN, Northumberland is NBL etc. 
Please see the links section for a link to a page which will give you all the 
codes.

Help Needed
If anyone can help by providing any information and/or photographs, making 
correction or suggestions as to where more data can be found then please get 
in touch.

Thank You
To all those people who have helped in some way to build this database, be it 
family trees, photographs, information, help in linking families together - I 
couldn't have done it without you.

Please be aware
Thant the information contained in this database has been obtained from 
various sources: the whole of the 1851 census for Greenhow village as well as 
the census for the years 1861-1901, Baptism & Marriage Records from Greenhow 
Chapel (no marriages) & St Mary's Pateley Bridge & Burnsall Parish Church, 
Family trees that people have sent me and ones I have found on the internet. I 
am currently working through the 1871 census for the village. The data is as 
correct as I can make it, but due to the uncertain nature of early information 
there may be errors. I have the source citations for about 80% of this data; 
this might be just a reference to someone elses tree or a link to a major 
source - I will gladly provide these on request - please contact me.

Finally
You have been invited to view the information contained herein because you 
have a connection with Greenhow Hill. The general public cannot access this 
data without the necessary password. This password will be changed at frequent 
intervals, please contact me if you wish to be informed of the current 
password - please state your link to Greenhow Hill.