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Karan

Karan Report 27 Aug 2010 19:52

wonder if anyone can help i am trying to find Joseph Brooke and is wife Elizabeth do not have any dates for either of them they had a son called Joshua Brooke and he was born in Lockwood Huddersfield and he was married to Lydia Hollingworth
thanks

jax

jax Report 27 Aug 2010 20:01

You must have some idea of dates? 1800s 1900s which part are we looking for?


jax

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:01

you must have some idea of dates - a century even!!!!

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:02

snap Jax!!!

jax

jax Report 27 Aug 2010 20:03

ok found it

Name: Lydia Hollingworth
Year of Registration: 1854
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Huddersfield
County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire
Volume: 9a
Page: 336 (click to see others on page)

Joshua Brook 1854 Huddersfield Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:04

1881

Joshua BROOKE M Male 47 Huddersfield, York, England Cloth Dresser
Lydia BROOKE M Female 54 Holmfirth, York, England
Henry BROOKE M Male 24 Lockwood, York, England Cloth Dresser
John BROOKE U Male 19 Liversedge, York, England Iron Moulder
George BROOKE U Male 17 Liversedge, York, England Piecer In Woollen


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Source Information:
Dwelling Littletown Cottage
Census Place Liversedge, York, England
Family History Library Film 1342097
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 4555 / 160
Page Number 14

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:04

1881

Joshua BROOK M Male 60 Huddersfield, York, England Woollen Cloth Dresser
Eliza BROOK M Female 56 Almondbury, York, England
Charles Allan BROOK U Male 16 Huddersfield, York, England Woollen Mill Hand


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Source Information:
Dwelling 15 South St
Census Place Mirfield, York, England
Family History Library Film 1342098
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 4558 / 76
Page Number 37

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:05

Joshua Brook Pedigree
Male

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Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 09 OCT 1614 Of, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

Death:
Burial: 20 NOV 1652

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:06

JOSUA BROOKE Pedigree
Male
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Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 15 JUN 1623 St Peter, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
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Parents:
Father: JOSHUAE BROOKE Family
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Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:10

and snap again Jax!!!!

jax

jax Report 27 Aug 2010 20:11

Yep the odd date here and there would make our lives so much easier

jax

Karan

Karan Report 27 Aug 2010 20:13

1800s

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:16

good heavens Karan - is that all you can say - look what's been found - we'd already worked the dates out and found the people!!!!!

jax

jax Report 27 Aug 2010 20:16

Karan

If you managed to find the names surely you would have known when at least one of them was born or when they married even?


jax

Karan

Karan Report 27 Aug 2010 20:22

i have the information for Joshua Brooke its is parents Joseph Brooke and Elizabeth i can't find would say they were born about 1800s and could be from the Huddersfield
as i come forward the Brooke name changes to Kaye and they move to the Dewsbury area

jax

jax Report 27 Aug 2010 20:28

If you had the info for Joshua why not tell us?

jax

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 27 Aug 2010 20:35

This looks like them in the 1861 census. The actual document gives Joshua's age as 5 and the name is spelled Brooke:


1861 England Census
about Joshua Brook
Name: Joshua Brook
Age: 3
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Joe
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Male
Where born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Huddersfield
Ecclesiastical parish: Woodhouse Christchurch
Town: Huddersfield
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

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Registration district: Huddersfield
Sub-registration district: Huddersfield
ED, institution, or vessel: 35
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 164
Household Members:
Name Age
Joe Brook 51
Elizabeth Brook 45
Fredrick Brook 19
Joe Brook 15
John Brook 12
Thomas Brook 8
Joshua Brook 3
Fred Brook 1
Jane L Brook 1

Karan

Karan Report 27 Aug 2010 20:37

sorry i am not use to doing this
Joshua Brooke born 1834 Lockwood Huddersfield Married to Lydia Hollingworth born 1827 Holmfirth they were married 10 Sep 1854 in kirkburton Huddersfield they had 3 sons and 1 daughter Henry Mary John and George

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 20:46

and you claimed not to have any dates!!!!

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 27 Aug 2010 21:06

we are not expecting your undying gratitude Karan but an acknowledgement would be kinda nice!!