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  Posted by tigzak (U14667866) on Friday, 9th September 2011

  Hi can anybody please help me I am trying to find church records of burials for St, James Church Horton Bradford. This church seems to have been pulled down and I am trying to find out what happened to the graves and the gravestones that were there, and also the records. I just have no idea where to start does anybody else. the burials took place in the mid and late 1800s
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  tigzak

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  Posted by raundsgirl (U2992430) on Friday, 9th September 2011

  The Record Office will probably have details or know where they are
  
  

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  Posted by Bill (U1780452) on Friday, 9th September 2011

  See the West Yorkshire Archive Service collection guide:
  
  
  
  However, this lists only baptisms, banns and marriages for St James.
  
  I therefore suggest you contact the Central Library Bradford, details in the above guide.

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  Posted by Grandadpop (U3054464) on Saturday, 10th September 2011

  Hi 'tigzak':
  
  Before my late cousin's husband died, he was into family histories, especially his own family of course and used to visit churches all over the country in an effort to track his relatives down and build a Family Tree'.
  This was long before computers became as popular as televisions and the Internet was still a long way off, so it was all leg-work.
  
  I remember him saying that the biggest problem with church records, was the lack of consistency. He found that the further back he went with his investigations, the more examples he found of mis-spelling.
  
  His surname consisted of seven letters yet he found numerous examples where it had been spelled differently over the ages and only by checking the entire family and establishing their first names, could he satisfy himself that he had the right person and the right family.
  
  I know from my own surname there are many different ways of spelling it but it is quite possible we are all related, however distantly.
  Just another 'hurdle' to be aware of.
  
  'G-G'

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  Posted by raundsgirl (U2992430) on Saturday, 10th September 2011

  Once you get to the days before compulsory education, very few people could read or write, so names in documents and Parish registers were spelt according to the whim of the person writing them, usually the vicar. When they are transcribed, the person doing the transcribing has to write exactly what is there; they're transcribing, not interpreting. I recently transcribed a baptism where the unfortunate child's name is written as "Valantantine". That may or may not be correct, but it's there so I have to record it.
  That's why you always need to use 'soundex', or whatever system the online search uses for variations in spelling.

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  Posted by tigzak (U14667866) on Sunday, 11th September 2011

  hi GG thanks for your reply how do you think we are related by which surname
  regards
  tigzak

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  Posted by jc (U1902680) on Sunday, 11th September 2011

  Ancestry have recently added West Yorkshire parish records. I don't know how complete they are as there are always loads missing when a new set of records are announced.
  I've only looked up one or two and they were there for me

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  Posted by jc (U1902680) on Sunday, 11th September 2011

  Looking at the index, they say they have St James, Bradford on there....
  
  put some names up, years and what every you've got to identify your peeps and we'll give it a shot
  
  

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