Gledhill Genealogy
This site is a repository and reference centre for material relating to the Gledhill Family and the Gledhill Name.
"Gledhill" -
The Name See this page for
the various possibilities which have been suggested.
New
theory on the origin of the name of Gledhill Here published for the first time - upsetting
previously held theories on the origins of the name - is a convincing
argument for its Viking roots! NEW
"The
Gledhill Family" (17k) - article by Percy W. Gledhill on the
origins of the Gledhills and their name.
Essential reading for all Gledhills. Worth downloading.
"Barkisland Hall and the Family of
Gledhill" (35k) - by Hugh P. Kendall, 1922.
"Mansions of Barkisland"
- from the
Armorial Bearings granted to Thomas Gledhill in
1612 (52k)
Descendant Chart (50k) tracing the
line from Henry Gledhill of Barkisland circa 1300 to Thomas Gledhill circa
1640.
Other Gledhill
Family Trees included in this website.
There are Gledhills listed in this website with Yorkshire origins
in Almondbury, Bankfield, Barkisland, Beeston, Bentley, Birstall, Bradford,
Calverley, Castleford, Churwell, Delphinshaw, Dewsbury, Elland, Farnley,
Golcar, Halifax, Hartshead, Heckmondwick, Heptonstall, Holbeck, Holywell Green,
Honley, Horbury, Huddersfield, Hunslet, Jaggergreen, Leeds, Lockwood, Longwood,
Mayfield Keighley, Morley, New Leith, New Wortley, Northowram, Old Lindley,
Outlane, Ovenden, Pudsey, Queenshead, Queensbury, Rastrick, Ripponden,
Sheffield, Slaithwaite, Southowram, Sowerby, Stainland, Thurlstone, Wakefield,
Woodnook and York and many others.
Lodge a Query on the Query
Board to obtain help from others in finding your Gledhill ancestors or
long-lost relatives. Contribute your file of
completed research on your Gledhill family. Search for
your Gledhill ancestors.
My Yorkshire Connection - my
Gledhill Family Tree from circa 1700. Can you help me with tracing my forbears?
Are you a descendant?
My Ohio U.S.A. connection. Can you
help me trace my Gledhill and France relatives in
Gledhill Odds & Ends from Around the World
Gledhill
Crater on Mars - Check if you have any relatives there! This
crater was named by the English Astronomer Joseph Gledhill (1836-1906).
Other Surnames which I am
researching - all originating in
My Skinner ancestors, Cornwall and My Skinner ancestors of London (Essex) and Peterborough.
View from our apartment in Sydney, Australia
(54k) - What a View! What a City!
Cyndi Howells links to 200,000+
genealogy-related sites - gives you everything! What more would
you want?
Search your West Riding Yorkshire (known as WRY) surname interests on Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens' website.
Objectives of this Website
The site is intended as a repository and reference centre for material relating to the Gledhill Family and the Gledhill Name.
You are invited to add a page on your Gledhill family to this website where it will be available to others. You may wish to obtain help from others regarding your family tree and you might discover some long-lost relatives. Check out the Query Board - you may be able to help someone who has posted a query already. Check out the Family Trees already lodged.
I have included details of my Yorkshire ancestors and relatives who went to America and I would very much like to hear from anyone who can help me with my family tree.
Included are some articles
written earlier last century on the origins of the Gledhills. This is only
a start and further historical information would be a welcome feature of this
web site. Any contributions from
Also attached are the following, prepared by P. Ll. Gwynn-Jones, Lancaster Herald of The College of Arms, London, in 1982:
- a sketch of the Armorial Bearings granted to Thomas Gledhill in 1612.
- the Descendant Chart tracing the line from Henry Gledhill of Barkisland circa 1300 to Thomas Gledhill circa 1640.
Lloyd Gledhill
Sydney, Australia
Website originally established July 1997
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