Yorkshire Dales : Local and Family History

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redmonds, George Francklin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--England--Yorkshire Dales--History.

Yorkshire Dales (England)--History.

Yorkshire Dales (England)--Social life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Names, Personal--England--Yorkshire Dales--History.

Yorkshire Dales (England)--History.

Yorkshire Dales (England)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Yorkshire Dales

Place of Publication:

: Wharncliffe, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The landscape and people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales, and this book employs new sources and methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries, religious and social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited, and their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities, on migration and population growth. Place-names emerged from regional and customary practices that illuminate topography, husbandry, mining, communications and much more. Thebook also uses material from

Contents:

""Also available from Pen & Sword Books Ltd:""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - Landscape and Place-Names""; ""BALE HILLS""; ""CALGARTH""; ""COMBS""; ""CRUTCHING""; ""DUB""; ""HIPPINGS""; ""LODGE""; ""RAKE""; ""STONERY""; ""TEIND""; ""Chapter 2 - Places and People""; ""COSH�A MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF A PENNINE FARM""; ""FORNAH GILL CLOSE""; ""FRIARS HEAD""; ""NEALS ING""; ""IMAGES AT AYSGARTH""; ""SWINSTY HALL""; ""SKYREHOLME""; ""Chapter 3 - Place-Names and Surnames""

""BATTERSBY�A �DEPOPULATED� TOWNSHIP""""BEECROFT HALL""; ""COWGILL HOUSE�A LOST PLACE-NAME""; ""FAWBER""; ""NUSSEY HOUSE, APPLETREEWICK""; ""Chapter 4 - Surname Histories""; ""EXPANSION AND ORIGIN""; ""DECLINE AND EXTINCTION""; ""LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGIN""; ""Chapter 5 - First Names in the Dales""; ""SIMON""; ""OSWALD""; ""CUTHBERT""; ""LEONARD""; ""PERCIVAL""; ""LANCELOT""; ""GAWIN""; ""REGIONAL DIFFERENCES""; ""Chapter 6 - Migration""; ""LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS""; ""GROUP MIGRATION""; ""LEGEND AND FACT""; ""VAGRANTS""; ""EMIGRATION""; ""NOVA SCOTIA""

""Chapter 7 - The Quarter Sessions and Dales Life""""THE POOR""; ""FIRE AND FLOOD""; ""SHEEP STEALING""; ""LEAD MINING""; ""Chapter 8 - Bridges and Highways""; ""KILDWICK BRIDGE 1304�10""; ""THE YORK TO KENDAL HIGHWAY""; ""SOME WHARFEDALE BRIDGES""; ""KETTLEWELL AND STARBOTTON""; ""SKIRDEN BRIDGE""; ""PATELEY BRIDGE""; ""GRINTON BRIDGE""; ""Sources""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781783401581

1783401583

9781783408863

1783408863

OCLC:

854974705