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The Yorkshire Dales (ePub)

World History > UK & Ireland > England > Yorkshire & Humberside

By Dr George Redmonds
Imprint: Wharncliffe Books
File Size: 4.1 MB (.epub)
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781783408863
Published: 2nd November 2011

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The landscape and people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales, and this book employs new sources and methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries, religious and social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited, and their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities, on migration and population growth. Place-names emerged from regional and customary practices that illuminate topography, husbandry, mining, communications and much more. The
book also uses material from Quarter Sessions, title deeds, wills and other documents to investigate a wide range of topics that touch on the lives of individuals and families, from religious dissent to sheep-stealing and vagrancy. There is emphasis too on the poor, showing the impact on families and communities of bastardy, fire, flood, violence and other disasters. A book written for anyone interested in the local and family history of the Yorkshire Dales.
Dr George Redmonds is a local historian with a life-long interest in name studies. In 1973 he wrote Yorkshire: West Riding, the first volume in the English Surnames Series, and in 2001 he presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Surnames, Genes and Geneaology’. Recent publications include Surnames and Geneaology (1997), Christian Names in Local and Family History (2003), Names and History: People, Places & Things (2003) and The Place-Names of Huddersfield (2008). The Making of Huddersfield (2003) has recently been reprinted by Wharncliffe Books. George is a well-known lecturer at international conferences.

George Redmonds uses research from a wide variety of sources, to help the reader see the people and landscape of the Yorkshire Dales in a different light. He uses materials gathered from Quarter Sessions, title deeds, will ad other documents to look into the details of Yorkshire families. An emphasis is put on the poor, showing how families dealt with fire, flood, Violence and other disasters. George Redmonds has tried to touch on topics that very few books on the Dales cover.

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About Dr George Redmonds

Dr George Redmonds was an internationally recognised local historian, specialising in the origin of surnames and place names.

In 1973 he wrote Yorkshire: West Riding, the first volume in the English Surnames Series, and in 2001 he presented the BBC Radio 4 series 'Surnames, Genes and Geneaology'. Recent publications include Surnames and Geneaology (1997), Christian Names in Local and Family History (2003), Names and History: People, Places & Things (2003) and The Place-Names of Huddersfield (2008); and The Making of Huddersfield (2003), reprinted by Wharncliffe Books. George was a well-known lecturer at international conferences.

He passed away in the summer of 2018, aged 82, and an obituary was printed in the Yorkshire Post newspaper.

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