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Bob I found my own notes on the Broughton BTs 1721 Elizabeth, dau of Simon Kendall, labourer, bapt Feb 18th 1735 Simon Kendall of Broughton, daily labourer and poor, buried Feb 20th [father?] 1736 Edmund Harrison of Elslack Cooper and Elizabeth Kendell spinster of the parish of Thornton married by a...

Bob, As I remember it, we went to Borthwick to check out the Broughton BTs for Edmund. You ran through the film first but didn't find him. I looked at the film later, and found his baptism entry written sideways up the margin. I read on a bit and noted Elizabeth, dau of Simon Kendall in 1721. Then a...

Thanks, Stanley. That's what I figured, more or less. It must have been good stuff. I can't imagine a good Yorkshire farmer wasting fodder ;-) It's been a while since I've visited the site. I've spent a lot of the last couple of days reading through your memories. Many thanks for posting so much int...

Hi Stanley, With silage, it's important to compress the greenery and cover it, to keep the air out and the temperature up. If not, some of it goes off instead of fermenting properly like sauerkraut. These days farmers tend to wrap round bales in plastic, or compress a bulk stack, cover it with plast...

Ian, No, lad. It was generic. 'As for our churches', wrote William Harrison. He's reputed to have been rather a gossipmonger, and preferred getting his information from local aristocrats, Oxford academics and the clergy, rather than putting his boots on the ground and visiting places for himself. Th...

Ian, The Harrison of 1577 mentioned by Whitaker is a certain London priest William Harrison, a writer and observer, whose "Description of Elizabethan England" (http://public-library.uk/ebooks/43/52.pdf) seems to be one of the Whitaker's major sources. I don't think the Puritan iconoclasm i...

Hi Stanley Are you acquainted with https://www.oatcakebaker.co.uk ? It's very informative and has photos of the oatcake-making process. I came across it when trying to find out how to make oatcakes, stimulated by the accounts of the itinerant non-conformist minister, Rev Peter Walkden, who was activ...

Hello, all. I'm sure most of you know most of this already, so apologies in advance. What remains of the Broughton register is on film at the Yorkshire Record Office, which was in Northallerton when I visited, although I believe it's moved since. The film I looked at was 1690-1778. The early years a...