Names in the News is a section holding transcriptions
of small news items or diary extracts from the 18th & 19th century
for districts in Calverley Parish, the criteria being that the items
mention local people or important events from the district. Hopefully,
this will go some way to "fleshing out" basic facts gleaned
from parish register and census entries. This will be an ongoing project
with additions transcribed daily. The database will be searchable rather
than browsable, though a linkable index will eventually be made available.
The entries are formated as follows example:
Source: Leeds Mercury
Date: 1845 12 27
Subject: Trouble at t'mill.
-Yesterday workers at Bumthwaite's mill went on strike to reduce the
working day from 18 to 17 hours and 12 on Saturday...
Searches for items can be conducted through the main page search engine
or the one below. Items from this section will be recognisable by the
above format style. The database will be updated every Sunday morning.
The search facility covers the whole site, so to ensure that only items
from this section are called, enter the words News Source along with
your search words; eg News Source Smith, will produce all Smith entries
from the database without bringing up all the other plentiful occurences
throughout the site.
The presence of ... after or in the text indicates that the item has been abridged,
though anyone requiring a copy of the original can request them.