- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE (Yorkshire Archaeological Society)[M2685] (digitised)
- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE, Bradford [M2854-M2861] (digitised)
- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE, Wakefield [M2686-M2696] (digitised)
- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE, Calderdale [M2772-M2774] (digitised)
- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE, Kirklees [M2796-M2797] (digitised)
- WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE, Leeds [M1898-M1900]
1. Archaeological Society
Yorkshire Archaeological Society has a collection of deeds, wills and family trees.
From the Hebdens in Australia file one can view thirty pages of notes and diagrams of the various branches of the family tree from 1794 - 1971
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| Branch 1 of family http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2335725961 |
2. Bradford
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford
In the series Woolcombers' Aid Society, July 1856 - October 1857 there is a list with the signatures of the woolcombers who were about to emigrate to Australia.
The three notebooks contain details of the purchases made to outfit the families for their journeys. There are also the addresses in Australia of some of the emigrants.
Perhaps one of your forebears or a relation went on one of these Young Australia League tours to Bradford in the 1950s. These files include all the names, addresses and itineraries for both the male and female tours.
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| Partial list from girls tour 1958 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2675211785 |
Among the many other series there are also the papers of Harry Eaddie, 1942 - 1947 - imprisonment at Changi.
3. Wakefield
Family papers, deeds letters and more
As with many of these county archives this one has Calendars of prisoners with more than 1500 images covering the years 1823 -1849. These are very detailed documents with an index of names at the front of each session. The trial records the name, age, event and sentence.
4 Calderdale
As I near the end of the alphabet I delight in small finds.
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| A woolly image - https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2340139077/view |
5. Kirklees
Some family papers of Joseph Dyson, a Hampshire family and a John Tyson.
Business Records: Rowland Mitchell and Co. Ltd, 1918 - 1931 - a woollen and worsted manufacturing firm, Lepton, their dealings with Australian and New Zealand firms.
Miscellaneous wills, family and estate papers.
6. Leeds District Archives
George Briggs married Louisa Spencer (d. 1883) at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, in 1853. They migrated to New South Wales and lived in Armidale, before settling in the Allora district of Queensland in 1878. This record is in George's handwriting.
Collections held by Leeds District Archives relating to Australia and New Zealand (as filmed by the AJCP) [microform] : [M1898-M1900] 1821-1935./Fonds. Briggs Papers/File Acc. 2223/Photocopies of papers of George and Louisa Briggs of Allora, Queensland http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2335870617
W - Who, What, Where, When and Why? Perhaps some of these files may have the answers. Explore more of the many W collections from the M series list.
Previous posts in this series
A - About the AJCP | B -Browsing the Board of Trade | C - County Record Offices | D - Downloading Documents | E - Emigration everywhere | F - Finding Aids | G - Genealogical Gems | H - Hulks and the Home Office | I - Irish Records | J - Journals and Jottings | K - Kent Archives | L - Love those Libraries | M - Mining the Records of the Missions | N - Near Neighbour New Zealand | O - Opportunities out there | P - Photographs | Q - Queensland | R -Records of the Royal Societies | S - Searching for females | T - Tracks and Turning pages | U - Upon reflection | V - Vickers and Voyages
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