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Midgley Arms and Crest Motto: Resurgam "I shall Rise Again"
"By various ingenious signs and
marks drawn on the covering
"The Ancient family of Midgley of Midgley Township in the parish of Halifax have been traced back seven centuries. ...the family produced noted clerics, lawyers, physicians and authors and once owned vast estates from Erring- den, Thornton to Bingley"13. "The Midgleys are probably one of Yorkshires oldest families"14. i.e. there are records going back to the 1100's &1200's.
Midgley used as a First Name. "Lawyer Midgley " of Halifax appears in the1500's to have transferred many Latin deeds in a beautiful hand. The Midgley's were the greatest conveyancers of these parts of Airdale and Calderdale for many years2 Midgley of Cullingworth -tracing names can be difficult. A property near the church entered into the Midgley family of Cullingworth in the 1400's who were amongst the oldest landowners there. At the start of the 1800's there were thirty-eight buildings in the village. The main street consisted of eight farmhouses, four on each side of the road and a few cottages. All the farmers were christened John! In 1816 prior to the Enclosure Act, a survey was carried out where it was found that James Fox was Lord of Cullingworth Manor and John Midgley was amongst the principal farmers. This John was also a road manager, he would survey and contract for the highway for 20-30 miles around Cullingworth15 Midgley of Breary Following the "Dissolution of the Monasteries", Edward Midgley settled at West Breary, parish of Adel, where he purchased an estate. His brother, Richard alsopurchased an estate . These estates were part of what had been the Cistercian Kirkstall Abbey. The Norman church at Adel had a large graveyard built from 1160 to 1170. Several members of the Breary Midgley family are buried near the entrance to the church and elsewhere in the graveyard. The first page of the Parish Register has an entry" Suzan, daughter of Samuell Midgley was baptysed the 25th Maye, Anno Domini 16062.
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A Yorkshire name from the 11th century. There are many English names with the suffix -ley (leah), from Anglo-Saxon (now referred to as Old English) meaning wood or clearing in the forest and later as a field or meadow. The prefix represents: i) The Old English name Mycge as the head of a group which settled here i.e. Myg a danish name perhaps relating to the conditions of the low country from the Old High German Mucca4 OR ii) the condition of the field/clearing i.e. infested with midges OR iii) The middle field referring to the position of the lands held iv) A fourth derivation has been suggested by Milnethorpe Midgley of Tasmania as being "Migge " or large (O. Scandinavian)11 These people probably migrated from what is now the low country of Northern Germany and Denmark from 500 A.D. Why are two places in West
Yorkshire called Midgley?
A jewel in the English crown In the 1300's the name came to indicate anyone who originated from
the villages of Midgley e.g.William
de Midgley. Any male with the
surname Midgley has a direct genetic
link through the male line going back to
the inhabitants of one of the villages#.
is inherited
along the male line.
#note: There
was also another hamlet of Midgley
in county Durham and a Mickley in Northumberland c. 1190,
'Michellie' O.E. large wood or clearing. 17 The Midgley name is found from the Middle Ages throughout the Western district, many of the districts manor houses were owned by Midgley families. These landowners made their wealth from the wool produced on the Pennine moors which would have been traded along the packhorse routes and south along the "Via Magna" joining with the "Great North Road" at Doncaster. .
Sir Thomas
Midgley
A word about Mottoes: A Caltrop is a device, laid upon the ground & designed to lame cavalry horses; they are composed of metal with protruding spikes. Sign Midgley Guestbook
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This section is being regularly updated, click on Recent Events a toponymic taken from two villages of the same name, West Yorkshire, England. First appearing in the Domesday Book1 in 1086 but probably 600 years older. Recorded in 1319 as one of 17 most prominent names in Yorkshire. An analysis of a place map of England (shaded an orange colour) shows a high concentration of occupation sites with names ending in "ley" in West and South Yorkshire. to the East the names are evidence of later Scandinavian (viking) occupation with place names ending in -by , -carr and -Thorpe During the 11th Century the name "england" came to be used, this name originated from the folk of Angeln10 in Southern Denmark and Northern Germany who called themselves "Engle"8 later, Angle. There are two English Place names of Midgley both in West
Yorkshire; Midgley near
Wakefield, referred to as
Migelaia in the12th century1. How many ways
can the name be
spelled? Elmete In Norman times Midgley manor was controlled
from Wakefield manor5 The Midgleys & Wakefield Manor During the Middle Ages a road called the "Magna Via" connected the Halifax region to Wakefield through "Battyeford" this would have allowed easy movement of peoples from the western village of Midgley3. Research indicates that the Township of
Midgley was an important western control
point for the Manor of Wakefield A study of family
groups from the IGI shows
migration from the area to Halifax occurred
as early as the 1400's
as the woollen industry was encouraged
to develop. Village life was yet to see
changes resulting from The enclosure
and urban industrialisation in
the 1700's. Wuthering Heights Other seats were Kershaw House at Luddenden, Brearley Hall near Mytholmroyd, Thornton2 , Cullingworth, & Clayton near Bradford and Midgley near Wakefield. Historical references often state that the surname
was first recorded in 1207.
However the I.G.I. gives Raoul Warren in a French novel, "The Assassin" sets a story in Miggeley in the Cevennes in southern France. See Le Grande Francais Connection
. If you require a "look-up" for genealogical purposes
I have *Joseph Hunter's Hallamshire, 1819. *Joseph Hunter's History of the Deanery of Doncaster
*The 1881 British Census and National index *1851 Census Indexes for Midgley, Middlestown, Netherton,
Overton, Altofts, Normanton ,
Snydale, Pontefract (G to O),Carleton,
East Hardwick, Aketon, Whitwood,
Featherstone, and Purston Jaglin.
*Marriage Indexes 1813-1837 for: . A History of Cricket Heritage of Calderdale Bronte Country City of Bradford Yorkshire Dales Australia-Tasmania Genealogy Links BDM CERTIFICATES Do you have any birth, death or marriage certificates? If so you can enter www.certificatesharing.com and share certificates with others. Bookmark this index page To get the address bar icon
In 1708 Samuel Midgley a physician of Halifax who was by then deceased, had his work, 'Halifax its Gibbet-Law placed in a true Light' published by another person claiming the work as his own. This work describes the town of Halifax during the late 1600's, persons of social standing in the community, the character of the people, its soil fertility and its ancient laws. In addition the 'Elland Feud' titled 'Revenge upon Revenge' is described. The frontispiece is remarkable by its depiction of the Halifax Gibbet, a device for beheading malefactors and operated by a donkey or horse. This machine preceeeded the French guillotine by some 400 years, first being used in 1286. We know that Adam de Swillington held the nearby manor of Shelf until 1322 when he forfeited his lands following his insurrection with Thomas earl of Lancaster. Thereafter William de Miggeley held Shelf manor and Halifax land until his death about 1338. Thus the law may have appeared during the time of Adam de Swillington by Edward I's royal grant. The Halifax Gibbet-law was an early form of trial by jury but was applied to those who stole property of more than thirteen pence in value. Execution using the Halifax Gibbet could be ordered by the burgesses of Halifax within the liberty of Halifax and this right may have evolved from the early right of infangtheft. One avenue of reprieve might appear if the prisoner could escape his captors and cross the parish boundary along Hebble Brook before he was caught. In such a case the tradition says that he was a freeman. The gibbet was last used in 1650 and was described by Daniel Defoe* as a very reliable and efficient method of execution: 'The force of this engine is so strong, the head of the axe being loaded with a weight of lead to make it fall heavy, and the execution so secure, that it takes away all possibility of its failing to cut off the head.' *A Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain [~1724] Samuel Midgley died in Halifax jail in 1695 where he had written his book, but because he was in jail for debt he was unable to have the book printed. William Bentley came into possession of Samuel's manuscripts and published them falsely under his own name. This plagiarist added his own additional notes and even dedicated it to the Duke of Leeds before publishing the work in 1708 and again in 1761. Imitation is flattery but plagiarism is theft, for which Bentley could well have been gibbeted himself if the Halifax gibbet-law had still been in existence. References/sources: 1. Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place Names. O.U.P.1997. 2. Midgleyana, John Franklin Midgley, Cape Town 1968. 3. History of Cawthorne.C.T. Pratt 1880. 4. Collins English Dictionary 1979. 5. History of the Principal Cities and Towns of Yorkshire. 6. Parish Register of Halifax Vol. 37 7. Reany, P.H. & Wilson, P.M. A Dictionary of English Surnames. O.U.P. 1995 8. Odijk, Pamela. Angles, Saxons and Jutes. 9. International Genealogical Index. 10. Brown, David. Anglo-Saxon England, The Bodley Head, 1978. 11.Information & coat of arms kindly provided by Milnethorpe and David Midgley of Tasmania. 12. Phillips G. & Keatman, M. Robin Hood: The Man Behind The Myth, M. O'Mara, p.65, 1995. 13. J. Longbottom, local antiquarian in a West Riding newspaper article, 1890. 14. Harwood, H.W. Survey of Midgley History, unpublished, January 1957. 15. Cudworth, William. Round about Bradford, 1876. 16. Email communication with Tom Mitchell of Tasmania. 17. Mills, A.D. A Dictionary of English Place-names, 1991, p. 229. |
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