Hello again Kay of the Shrewsbury Three,
Thanks for the input on John Catley m Catherine Dawson of Thorner (yes thats
correct I understand) and I just hope that Marge C (2 x t) is copying these
e-mails as she will be so pleased to learn that progress is being made on
her pedigree. It is only so sad that her brother Louis also from Penn, USA
died last year, he too would have been so chuffed.
That Thomas had siblings is news indeed and the emergence of Edwin as a
possible lead to living relations will no doubt be most interesting.
Was aware of the "error" re Scarcroft V's Seacroft but thought it wise to
let things be in the certain hope that you would discover the discrepancy.
As to the possible connection between these Leeds district Cat*leys and the
Dave Barker...... Bridlington Catleys, I am surmising here but although
there is only some 60 miles between the centre of modern Leeds and
Bridlington, there is masses of evidence of Cat*leys closer to Leeds than
Bridlington for the period late 1500's to circa 1800 in other parishes such
as Leeds itself,
Kippax,Rothwell,Featherstone,Garforth,Darrington,Barton-in-Elmet,Womersley,B
ramham,York,Normanton,Whitkirk,Bilton-in-Ainsty,Bulmer,Keighley,Barnoldswick
,Bingley,Bolton-in-Bowland,Gisburn,Slaidburn,Waddington and Hemsworth.
I have 194 entries of Cat*ley for this period within these 21 Parish records
which is a bit daunting to say the least!
There is therefore a whole great big swath of Cat*ley records extending
across most of Yorkshire from Leeds to Bridlington and down to Hull and
including Beverly which I think has been mostly unsearched except by Gerald
Coveney in the 1980's who was looking to verify his/my Tree.
The "other Cat*ley pockets" such as those in
Lincolnshire,Hertfordshire/Cambridgshire and Essex not forgetting the
Wiltshire(Tisbury) and the Somerset ones plus Wales extensions seem to have
stayed put in one place a little longer than the Yorkshire ones whose
(assumed) movements make them harder to nail down.
If only to wet your appetite further, I offer the following: GARFORTH
1631-1812 YPR Vol.46 :-
1731 Mar, Robert Catley, labourer of Garforth parish to Ann Dib of same
1736 Bapt, Joseph son of Robert Catley, collier
1783, Bapt James son of Thomas Catley, collier and Ann.
Much to do!
Best ............... Tim C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kay Heath <hampden(a)bigpond.net.au
To:
<CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
12:20 AM
Subject: [CAT...] Pennsylvania - Seacroft -Leeds, Cattleys
Dear Tim,
Thomas CATTLEY who went to Penn, USA
(even though he gives his birthplace as Seacroft in the
1881 census on the IGI he and his siblings are listed as
born in Whitkirk, which is just down the road - maybe a couple
of miles) .
(Garforth, where he later moved with his family to presumably
get workin the coal mines, is about 4 miles from where he was born ).
Parents:
John Catley of ? m Catherine Dawson (of Thorner? b. 1804?)
at St Peters Church in Leeds (which was the Parish Church
of Leeds) 1823. Thorner is about 3 miles from Seacroft.
Siblings: also born in Whitkirk/Seacroft, were Mary (earliest of this
group in 1827) - later Harriet; Edwin; seems strange that there
were no babies from the wedding in 1823 to 1827, unless they died,
or maybe were living in another area in that time.
Catherine (mother) looks as if she was still alive and living (on her own)
in Seacroft in 1881.
All we need to find out now, is which John Catley she married?
also whether or not the Bridlington Catleys (Dave Barker is interested
in them I think) who had two generations of family around the late
1700's early 1800's called 'John Dawson Catley' - were perhaps
related to Catherine. Bridlington is on the coast, on the far side of
York from Leeds ,although only about 50 miles away.
kayh
p.s. I was wrong when I thought some time ago, it should have been
'Scarcroft' which is a village near Thorner..when I saw Catherine in 1881
living in Seacroft, I had another look at the map.
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