MIDGLEYNEWS                                          Do you have any news of people or places?                                          Do let me know and I'll post them up -T.M.

All links to this site should now be in the format: http://midgleywebpages.com/------ despite otherwise shown in some places.
*7th March 2010  
The Rochdale Midgley pedigree has been added as a zipped Gedcom. This line led to the U.S. chemist Thomas Midgley jnr.
Download the file directly here.

*5th March 2010
The full text of the 1294-1297 Wakefield Court Rolls can now be downloaded and searched in a PDF document where you will find many references to the early Midgley name, especially John de Miggeley who was the son of Adam de Migge[ley]. John is described as being a forester in the forest of Sowerby, residing at Hathershelf, Mytholmroyd. Adam appears to have been appointed the Grave of the Graveship, an unusual administrative unit found only in Yorkshire. See http://www.archive.org/download/recordseries29yorkuoft/recordseries29yorkuoft.pdf
Also examine the extractions from this roll

*3rd March 2010
Jay Midgley has an embroidery sampler made by his great great grandmother Sarah Midgley, nee Clegg of Rochdale showing the large house, 'Summer Castle', once sited in Rochdale, Lancashire. See http://midgleywebpages.com/rochdale.html

*6th December 2009
Steven Midgley has located more information  re Midgleys of Brayton, Thorpe Willoughby and Burn near Selby which has been added to the updated Gedcom file. Download  the  file at  http://midgleywebpages.com/midgedcom.html

David Clark has sent some photographs of two oil paintings depicting Yorkshire rural scenes painted in 1905 by an Arthur Midgley. This does not appear to be the Arthur Midgley painter and photographer of Rochdale and Saffron Walden. The two paintings were presented to David's great grandfather as a prize for finishing top of the cricket batting averages in the Bradford league. Images of these two paintings can be viewed at
http://midgleywebpages.com/arthur05.html

Additional information relating to Sir William de Midgley has been located in the Yorkshire Feet of Fines which throws some light on his faimily, a son by the same name and two daughters.  See http://midgleywebpages.com/felkirk.html or  http://midgleywebpages.com/knight.html

Google Books have placed Samuel Midgley's book "The History of the Town and parish of Halifax" 1789 online which can also be downloaded as a PDF.
*19th November 2009

Jaqui Bell has revised her research on  Midgley of Allerton & Horton, Bradford, See   http://midgleywebpages.com/bradford.html  

Derek Hindle has added a little more to Midgley of Farsley and Pudsey, See  http://midgleywebpages.com/westyorks.html
*5th August 2009  Thanks to Janet Ogden who has added more through transccription of Wills , Releases &c. for Midgley and the manor of Haworth. See  http://midgleywebpages.com/haworth.html
*3rd July 2009  Data has been gathered concerning Midgley of Barmby, East Yorkshire, the family emigrated to Canada and then the U.S. after 1850.  See http://midgleywebpages.com/eastyorks.html

*16th April 2009
More detail has been added to the Midgley line of  Burn, Brayton & Hambleton &c. by Dave Sunman on the Selby page at  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/selby.html and direct download as a zip file at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/hnc.zip

*15th March 2009
More information has been gathered by Sandra McAllister regarding the Midgley's of Armley, Leeds. See under Leeds at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/westyorks.html

*19th September 2008
A connection has been made between William Midgley of Rochdale [b. 1758] a Quaker mill owner and his youngest brother Eli [b. 1771]. Eli is the progenitor of a line which emigrated to the U.S.A in 1850 and 1869 and led to Thomas Midgley jnr. the U.S. chemist who discovered how to extract bromine from seawater, 'ethyl' and freon refrigerants. A Gedcom is in the process of being constructed which unites these two Midgley branches of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
* Jackie Hendrie and Glen Midgley are researching William Midgley of Todmorden, Calderdale b~ 1827 . William married Mary Sagar of Sagar Fold near Burnley.
See http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/todmorden.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/blackburnshire.html
*20th July 2008
Thomas Midgley IV, the grandson of Thomas Midgley Jr., the Chemist, is kindly forwarding more information concerning this intriguing scientist whose life details are contained in the book, From the Periodic Table to Production, published in 2001. Thomas Midgley Jr. was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the U.S.A in 2003. Thomas IV's great grandmother travelled to England in the 1920's with an instruction from her son to investigate the family heritage. This she did and in the process produced a small diary of tthe genealogy of  this family branch. With this diary and other resources Thomas IV hopes to identify  his predecessors who are believed to have worked with James Watt. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/index-4.html
*27th March 2008
An updated gedcom of Midgley of Hambleton, Normanton and Cawthorne has additions for Hambleton and Brayton care of Steven Midgley who has been searching the Borthwick Institute at York for the Brayton Parish register, near Selby. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/8771/midgedcom.html
*24th February 2008
Julia Scott  is searching for any information concerning Abraham Midgley local Wesleyan preacher  in Thornton  near Bradford.
See http://members.tripod.com/~midgley/thornton.html
*4th December 2007

The primary objective of  Ian and Stephen's project is preparing two books. These publications cover the history of Midgley township and the Midgley surname :  

   June(ish) 2006: transcripts of wills and inventories of Midgley  township identities, covering the period 1531 to 1731 are expected to be available. Ian and Stephen have transcribed about 40 of these, the most commonly occurring family name being Midgley. This will be a small, partially colour illustrated soft backed book that would be a useful historical resource. It’s unlikely to be everyone’s idea of an entertaining read, but as far as Midgley surnames are concerned there are at least seven, including some large inventories that detail all their possessions.

·  June 2007: this is the major publication. It will be a hard back book published to a very high standard in full colour. It will cover all ages in the history of the township and will be visually appealing, containing a large number of images: photographs old & new, sources of local history (e,g census) and maps.

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