On Tuesday afternoon, a group of participants in the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project attended an Ancestry familiarisation session at Skipton Library. The library was opened especially for us and we had a fine time getting to grips with the Ancestry software, particularly finding out how to use it to discover details of men who fought […]
Mary Sharpe, who lived at Kildwick Hall, was mayoress of Keighley from 1912 to 1916, when her brother was mayor. Local news reports of the time suggest that she was forthright in her views on a women’s place in society and what women can do in wartime. Article – Mary Sharpe – a woman’s work […]
On January 30th 1920 Thomas Appleby, the headmaster of Kildwick School, made the following entry in the school log book: A School War Memorial with the names of 15 former scholars who gave their lives during the war has been erected in school. The central panel has a picture of a kneeling figure of St. […]
Saturday June 3rd 2017 is the centenary of the death, in action, of William Mosley from Farnhill. He wasn’t a WW1 Volunteer but he was one of the Kildwick bell-ringers. The current bell-ringers will be ringing a Quarter Peal of Plain Bob Triples in his memory, beginning shortly after 2pm and continuing for around 45 […]
In the 1930s the writer Arthur Mee coined the term “Thankful Village” for those places which had lost no men in World War 1, because all those who left to serve came home again. In 2013, an updated list identified 53 civil parishes in England and Wales from which all serving personnel returned. Kildwick wasn’t […]
Members of the project recently contacted a relative of two of the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers, George and Richard Inskip. This lady was able to provide us with our first photograph of Richard and a photograph of George which is much better than anything we currently have. She was also able to show us a photograph […]
The middle names of people often provide useful information about a person’s family or origins. Boys are sometimes given their mother’s maiden name, for example – this seems to be particularly prevalent in Scottish families. Our project is uncovering lots of interesting middle names: including the Farnhill WW1 Volunteer James Scarborough Theodore Pollard; and the […]
We’ve been having trouble identifying the parents of one of the Volunteers, Harry Pollard. He was brought up by Binns Hartley and his wife Sophia Annie (nee Pollard). That Harry was some close relation of Sophia’s is almost certain, but quite what their precise kinship was is eluding us at present. What we do know […]
A Magic lantern show will launch a community initiative focussing on villagers who fought in the First World War. The March 3 event will formally kick-off the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project, which is researching the lives of those who volunteered to serve in the Great War. The project will examine what the 68 men did […]
