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I have been looking at the BVRI2 for Booth ancestors and there are Parish Registers for Henley. Looking at GENUKI, Henley is a chapelry in the Parish of Almondbury. Some of the entries are also found on the IGI, but they come under Kirkburton. Can anyone shed light on this for me please? Russell

The only Henley I know is the one in Oxfordshire that has a regatta! nell

But www streetmap uk co has this lot: Henley, Shropshire [City/Town/Village] Henley, Wiltshire [City/Town/Village] Henley, Gloucestershire [City/Town/Village] Henley, Dorset [City/Town/Village] Henley, Shropshire [City/Town/Village] Henley, Wiltshire [City/Town/Village] Henley, Somerset Henley, West Sussex [City/Town/Village] Henley, Suffolk [City/Town/Village] Henley, Somerset [City/Town/Village] Henley, West Sussex [Town] Henley, Somerset [Town] Henley, Shropshire [Town] Henley, Suffolk [Town] Henley Common, Shropshire Henley Common, West Sussex [City/Town/Village] Henley Corner, Somerset Henley Corner, Somerset [Town] Henley Fm, Shropshire [Farm] Henley Fm, Gloucestershire [Farm] Henley Fm, West Berkshire [Farm] Henley Green, Coventry [City/Town/Village] Henley Grove Fm, Somerset [Farm] Henley Hill, South Gloucestershire [Hill/Mountain] Henley Hill, South Gloucestershire Henley Hill, Somerset [Hill/Mountain] Henley Hill, South Gloucestershire Henley Ho, Lincolnshire Henley Knapp, Oxfordshire [Forest/Wood] Henley Park, Surrey Henley Park, Oxfordshire Henley Park, Surrey [Town] Henley Reach, Oxfordshire [Water Feature] Henley Square, Suffolk Henley Street, Kent [City/Town/Village] Henley Tyning Fm, South Gloucestershire [Farm] Henley Wood, East Sussex [Forest/Wood] Henley's Down, East Sussex [City/Town/Village] Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire [City/Town/Village] Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire [Town] Henley-in-Arden Station, Warwickshire [Station] Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire [Town] Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire [City/Town/Village] Henley-on-Thames Station, Oxfordshire [Station] Henleyhill, Shropshire Henleyhill Wood, Buckinghamshire [Forest/Wood] Henleypark Fm, Surrey [Farm] Henleypark Lake, Surrey [Water Feature] Henleys Down, East Sussex [Town] nell

There's:- Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire Henley In Arden, Solihull, West Midlands Henley, Ipswich, Suffolk Henley, Langport, Somerset Henley, Dorchester, Dorset Henley, Marlborough, Wiltshire Henley, Ludlow, Shropshire Henley, Crewkerne, Somerset Henley, Haslemere, Surrey Henley Common, Church Stretton, Shropshire Cole Henley, Whitchurch, Hampshire Henley in Arden, Warwickshire Henley in Staffordshire Just a few!

Thankyou for your help everyone. Do you think that Henley could be a mistranscription for Honley or Emley? It is all a bit confusing but the entries I am looking at are from the 1740s so there may have been a Henley in the West Riding of Yorkshire in those days! Russell

Hi Russell Honley was a Chapelry in the Parish of Almondbury. Holmfirth was a Chapelry in the Parish of Kirkburton. Emley has always been a Parish with its own rector. Regards Stan

sorry to say i disagree with honley being part of almondbury. i live in huddersfield myself and honley is no were near almondbury . they are on oppersite sides of huddersfield catherine

Catherine is quite right on our understanding of present-day geography. However I assure her that the facts in GENUKI are correct. The historic Parishes in this part of Yorkshire covered enormous east-west tracts of countryside, then very sparsely inhabited. The main routes we use today, up and down the valleys, only came into existence within the last 200 or 300 years. The Parish townships were connected by hilltop routes, while the valleys were thickly wooded and impassable until the days of the turnpike roads, canals and railways. Huddersfield Parish covered the northern half of the present town of Huddersfield, and the nearby Colne Valley areas including Paddock, Longwood, Golcar, Slaithwaite and Scammonden. Almondbury covered the southern part of what is now Huddersfield including Lockwood and South Crosland, and extended through Honley to Netherthong, on to Meltham, and then to Linthwaite and Marsden in the upper part of the Colne Valley. Kirkburton included Holmfirth and New Mill. The Parishes of Kirkheaton and Emley to the east were of a more conventional size, but for example in the Upper Dearne Valley Scisset was in Emley, Clayton West and Skelmanthorpe were in High Hoyland, and Denby Dale and Cumberworth were in Penistone Parish, across the divide in the Don Valley. Today these places in the Upper Dearne Valley are more or less joined together. The Parishes were provided with Chapelries over the years owing to the difficulty of reaching the parent Church. A walk of five or more miles each way was required in some cases. Some of our footpaths today are reputed to be 'coffin ways' - the route taken for burials, since the Chapels only acquired graveyards at later dates. Stan

Hello Stan, Thankyou very much for your lateat addition to this thread, it is very informative and I am going to print it off. Most of my family is from this area and I have found it very difficult to trace using Parish Registers as they seem to get married of christened or buried at adjacent or nearby Parishes. eg Baptised in Emley, Married in Thornhill, Buried in High Hoyland or Flockton. The Booth side pre 1841, lived in Lepton but were christened in Kirkheaton, Kirkburton, Emley, Henley? and Flockton. I was hoping that someone answering this thread would have heard of Henley so I would know whether to concentrate on Almondbury or Kirkburton. There is a FHL film number of 0990701 on the BVRI2 entry I have been looking at, so I will get in touch with the LDS at Sheffield and see if I can order it. Thankyou everyone. Russell

0990701 is the BTs for Kirkburton. The PRs have also been filmed. There's a coverage list for BIVRI online at http://genoot%2ecom/downloads/BVRI2/, and according to this, the Henley entries fit into a time gap in the Kirkburton entries. So there's probably a silly explanation. Maybe the parson was on a mission to change the name of the parish, or maybe he was so decrepit he couldn't remember where he was. Or maybe he wrote his own name instead of the parish name. But the signs seem to point to these being Kirkburton records

Brilliant Robin, thankyou!