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!
"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. See also an article on the life and work of Percy W. Gledhill.
"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
"Huddersfield and
Manly - the Gledhill Connection", an article by Tony Dawson on the Australian
local historian and genealogist, Percy Walter Gledhill 1890-1962.
Gledhill Crater on Mars - Check if you
have any relatives there! This crater was named by the English Astronomer
Joseph Gledhill (1836-1906). Google search
to view.
Other Surnames which I am
researching - all originating in England.
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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