Yorkshire Team

Profile managers: Joan Whitaker [send private message], England Project WikiTree [send private message], and Dave Welburn [send private message]

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Yorkshire formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. The county town is York. Historically, Yorkshire was divided into three ridings and the Ainsty of York. The term 'riding' is of Viking origin and derives from Threthingr meaning a third part. The three ridings in Yorkshire were named the East Riding, West Riding and North Riding. Within the borders of the historic county of Yorkshire are vast stretches of unspoiled countryside. This includes the Yorkshire Dales, and North York Moors National Parks and part of the Peak District National Park, and the Yorkshire Wolds, that may soon be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The emblem of Yorkshire is the White Rose. Yorkshire Day, held annually on 1 August, is a celebration of the general culture of Yorkshire, including its history to its own dialect.

Welcome to the Yorkshire Team!

Team Leader: Joan Whitaker and Dave Welburn

Goal

This Team covers the whole of Yorkshire, Cleveland and Humberside. The goal of the Yorkshire Team is to raise the standards of Yorkshire profiles across the board, to devise topics to work on which will increase the presence of Yorkshire profiles on WikiTree and to provide resources and assistance to those working on Yorkshire profiles.

What we do

• We are responsible for improving the profiles of people from Yorkshire, This includes sourcing, connecting, merging duplicates, correcting database errors, and writing biographies. We clean up Yorkshire gedcom profiles and untangle family errors.

• We create profiles for prominent or notable Yorkshire people and connect them to our global tree.

• We oversee of the Yorkshire category to ensure that our information is up to date and is consistent with the other England county pages. This includes the revision of our categories, adding correct categories and deleting incorrect or unnecessary categories as needed. It also includes monitoring the page to ensure that all profiles are placed into the most accurate sub-category possible and not into any of the parent categories.

• We work on the Yorkshire Maintenance Categories, finding accurate sources and adding missing information.

• We maintain the Yorkshire Resources page by adding new information, checking hyperlinks are not broken and removing information that is no longer relevant.

• We create free space pages related to events and places in Yorkshire.

• When we can, we help and advise others who are working on Yorkshire profiles. This includes answering questions asked on G2G.

Topics

• Yorkshire Statistics
• Yorkshire Suggestions
• Yorkshire Unconnected Profiles
• Yorkshire Unsourced Profiles
• Yorkshire Name Studies
• Yorkshire Place Studies
• Yorkshire Notables and Managed Profiles
• Yorkshire Sub-Projects
• Yorkshire Mining Disasters

Yorkshire Locations

Because Yorkshire is the largest county, it was divided up into Ridings (North, West and East), These are not county names, they are just districts. These Districts, or Ridings, were further sub-divided into Wapentakes, a term that is not in use today. Other sub-districts exist, for example in the north, there are Cleveland, Ryedale and Wharfedale. In the East there is Holderness. However the EP standard for location fields is Town/city, County, England. Therefore a correct location in Yorkshire should be Town/City, Yorkshire, England. regardless of which district it lays. This gets further complicated after 1974 when further districts were created, such as South Yorkshire. The location is still Yorkshire, England.

In a similar vein, The terms North, West and East are not to be used, the county is Just Yorkshire.

The city of York was not in any of these districts, so its location would be York, Yorkshire, England.

The use of United Kingdom is not necessary, and should deffinately not be used for dates before 1801 when it was created.

There are some duplicated town names in Yorkshire, because of its size, but they can be clarified by using their correct names. Such as Preston (in the East) which is Preston in Holderness, that can be differentiated from Preston (in the North) which is Preston under Scar.

Although the EP location standard is just for location fields (Birth, Death and Marriage) you can use any terms you wish in the biography section if it helps to clarify a location.

Another useful way to clarify locations, is to categorise them. This also groups profiles from the same town together, which is handy when researching families. A full list of Yorkshire location categories can be found here... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Yorkshire

Further clarification of Yorkshire Duplicate Place name can be found here ... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Yorkshire_Duplicate_Place_Names it is a work in progress at the moment, but is being expanded.

Yorkshire Resources

Check out some Yorkshire Resources here.

Suggestions for the Future

• Create a free space page to list of significant events and dates that had major social impact on the people of Yorkshire. e.g, The coming of the canals and opening of coal mines. Changes to the Fishing Industry. Wars and Battles, Epedemics. Disasters.
• Make a Free Space page listing Yorkshire Churches and the years their records started and where they are held.
• Make list of Famous People from Yorkshire and create profiles for them. See Famous People from Yorkshire and Wikipedia.

Team Members Specific Interests

Team Member	Interests	Currently working on
Joan Whitaker	The West Riding. The Yorkshire Coal Mining Industry	Own Family, Yorkshire Coal mining disasters - Creating profiles for those killed in Colliery Disasters and their family members. Yorkshire unknowns
Carol Gilbert	The East Riding of Yorkshire	Own Family, Developing earlier profiles and cleaning profiles for Foothead, Kellington, Smelt, Stather, Jewitt and Lund in particular, Extending family links, Building area knowledge, and investigating wills.
Richard Crane	The villages between Wakefield and Huddersfield	Own family were shepherds in Norfolk and came north to become coal miners following the decline of farming.
Lynn Drasdo	West Riding, especially Bradford and surrounding areas such as Halifax, Dewsbury	Sourcing Yorkshire profiles, mainly 1500- 1700 at the moment, own tree Robertshaw/Harrison/Richardson
Paul Shepard	Handsworth, Dewsbury, Sheffield area	Family connections including the Herring, Medley, Payne and Scothorne variants.
Dave Welburn	As a true Yorkshireman, Iam intersted in the whole county. My own family stretches from Hull in the south, the East Coast, Up past Durham, and over in the west to Halifax and Sheffield.	Tidying up my own lines, i.e. checking sources, categorising, and general clean up. At the same time working on other areas of the country, following the source-a-thon.
Michael Cayley	Cayleys of Brompton and families with which they intermarried; Legard family; Yorkshire Quakers; some Yorkshire notables	Cayley and Legard families and their connections; Quakers
Jen Hutton	North Riding and the city of York; Hutton family and their connections	Husband's family includes two Archbishops of York, a number of Sheriffs of Yorkshire, and other notables who I would like to develop profiles for; working currently on making a dent in our unsourced profiles and beginning work toward pre-1500 certification.
Fred Adamson	West Riding. Bradford, Keighley, Addingham, etc. Family names Stowell, Armitage, and more.	Working specifically on "Unsourced" and Orphaned profiles in multiple counties.
Jean Brooks	North Riding, Bedale; West Riding around Leeds; and Hatfield near Doncaster, bordering into Lincolnshire and Isle of Axholme. Also other counties adjacent to Yorkshire.	Sorting my own profiles and extending the families. Adding sources to unsourced profiles and learning more about WikiTree.
Elaine Mattsen	Adding to my own profiles, sourcing in general and Yorkshire profiles	Family names I am extending are Cleverly, Vizzard, Clements, Yeodell
LaJuana West
Carol Collins
David Stephenson	Hull, East Yorks, North Yorks, North Lincs including the Isle of Axholme, North Eastern Scotland	Extending own my family on WikiTree. Working on Yorkshire Unsourced Profiles.
Louis Ogden	I am primarily focused on area around Bingley, Bradford and Halifax parishes.	My Ogden ancestors emigrated to America from the Bingley about 1640. In researching them, I have developed quite a genealogical database of folks from Halifax/Haworth/Bradford/Bingley Parishes and intend to work at getting them all into WikiTree.
Richard Murison
Carol Thoma		Many of my ancestors are from Yorkshire. Right now, I'm just getting familiar with the project and deciding which profiles I want to work with.
Chris Hilder
Sondra Marshall	The East Riding of Yorkshire	Primarily working on my own extended family located in and near Hull, Market Weighton, South Cliff, North Newbald, and Skeffling.
Katie Fuller
David Knapp Sr
Greg Webber
John Machell	Yorkshire	My current focus is the creation of profiles for the Machell One Name Study; especially those in Yorkshire, where I was born. I am also working on unsourced Yorkshire profiles, suggestions, and profile improvements
Ruth Jowett
Susie Officer	Interests: Customs and whaling industry (ex. Hull) and glass enamellers. Names: Beilby/Bielby. Also; Boyes, Danby, Simpson, Hawkins, Briggs, Drinkrow, Sawden	Working on: The family of Robert Beilby (bef.1813-bef.1860) who... ... ... ... migrated from Yorkshire, England to Victoria, Australia on Young America in 1858. Next: William Beilby, Glass Enameller
Doug Warren	General work on Yorkshire and working with the team; focus on Great Ouseburn, Thornhill, Manningham, Bradford, Cottingham, Kingston upon Hull	Maternal 2nd great grandfather William Kay (1835–1919) who immigrated to US from Yorkshire; I currently had his as son of George Samuel Kay and Mary (Niehaus Kay. However, I'm exploring family of notable Ellis (Cunliffe) Cunliffe-Lister-Kay (1774–1853 of Manningham, because his 2nd wife Mary (Kay) Cunliffe-Lister-Kay (1774–1844) , who was the daughter of William Kay (–1842) of Cottingham, near Hull. I'm currently doing research trying to resolve these linkages, especially for the William's and Mary's .
Maureen Fearn	Sheffield Area, especially parishes of Bradfield and Ecclesfield	Working on father's line family names and suggestions in Yorkshire, generally
Graham Farmer	Dearne Valley Area	Working mainly on own family and improving South Yorkshire profiles
Raewyn Vincent	East Riding, Swine Parish, Holderness area and Hull.	Working on Carrick name, primarily in East Yorkshire at the moment. Also working on database suggestions and sourcing.
Susan Pearson	Surnames: Hitch, Harding, Sowry & Medley and some Yorkshire notables	Working on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Portrait_of_Yorkshire_Worthies
Philip Norton	West Yorkshire, esp. Leeds. North Yorkshire, Kelburn and Coxwold.	Coming to Yorkshire next year (2025) for a wedding in Halifax so planning family locations to visit. Working on improving my tree across the UK.
Mary Koler
Jane (Copley) Bannell
Ann Wigglesworth
Gordon Ripley	North Yorkshire. Ripleys of Ingleby Greenhow (all 200 of them). Surnames Bean, Trowsdale, fflunders, Lee, Corney. Emigration from Yorkshire to Canada, 18th Century.	Work on my own family, and adding sources to Yorkshire profiles. I have a website which provides information about Yorkshire emigration to Nova Scotia 1772-1775: http://www.libris.ca/yrkfam