Journal - Ryedale Roots - January 2024

Kirkbymoorside – location and what records are available

            Should we lose our Heritage? Proposed destruction of Wills

            Help sought: Nixon, Richardson, Nessfield and Ellerker (Helmsley), The Refugee Centre WW2 (Beckdale, Helmsley)

            Kirkbymoorside Monumental Inscriptions – available from the RFHG Website

            Kirkbymoorside War Memorial – Names of the fallen WW1 and WW2

            Recipe for Orange Wine

            The Black Swan Inn – images and link to the Sonley family

            Article on ‘What’s in a Directory?’

            ‘The Kirkbymoorside Directory’ by James Herbert Dobson in 1890

            Short story Winner and Runner-up 2023

            Article on Sir Thomas Peirson Frank

            Article and Photograph on the Home Guard – do you recognise anyone?

            Member Talks: My Noble Ancestors and other Tall Stories;

                        The Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Searching the Archives

            Will of Charles Fisher of South Field 1728

            Article on the GRO Indexes

            Article on the Yorkshire Parish Registers – available from the RFHG Website

            Newspaper Clippings

            Kirkbymoorside and the 1911 Census – an unusual entry

            Item from the Quarter Sessions Court, Helmsley January 13^th 1718-9

            Extremes of Weather – abstract from the ‘Annals of Yorkshire’ (available from the RFHG Website)

            Acknowledgement to the Kirkbymoorside History Group