Rushforths of the Wakefield Area of Yorkshire
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lOCATIONS: (refer to map of Wapentakes)
Yorkshire was divided into administrative districts called Wapentakes, the Danelaw equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon Hundred. Wapentake locations were used in early taxation records. Minor settlements named in Domesday generally took the name of the main estate holder, hence Rishworth is deemed to be a fenced or bordered land holding of the Ryes or Ries. The locations of property connected with the Rushforths(Rishworths) are in the Wapentakes of Moreley(6), Agbrigg (11), Staincross(12), Osgoldcross(13), Skyrack: Upper and Lower Divisions(9 and 7 ). [See map below] |
Ackworth – willage in Olgoldcross, 3.25 mi SSW of Pontefract.(13) Addingham(c 972 Haddincham, 1086 Odingehem, near Ilkley,Craven,(9) Barkisland – village in Ripponden, W.Yorksh.5.5 mi fr Halifax,Morley(6) Barnsley – town, south Yorksh., btwn Sheffield & Leeds in W.Riding of Yorksh.Staincross(12) Bolling Hall – building in town of Bradford, W.Yorksh., Morley(6) Bradford – turned from village to town when permitted to hold weekly market.Morley(6) Coley - village in Calderdale Yorksh, in Hipperholme, Morley(6) Coley Hall is in Hipperholme just east of Rishworth, Yorkshire. Hipperholme village is in the Calderdale in West Yorkshire between Halifax and Brighouse. In the Domesday it is called ‘Huperun’. In 1286 John de Coldeley ,a relative of the Rishworth family, is first to be mentioned in connection with Coley Hall. The Rishworths moved there in 1330. Coley Hall passed out of the Rishworth family In 1572 when Alexander Rishworth sold it to Richard Sunderland. He then sold it in 1654 after it was damaged in bombardment during the Cromwell revolution. It was restored in the 1960s. Colne – village in Colne River Valley, nr Huddersfield, Morley (6)WRY Cowling – village in Craven,WRY,originally Colling (Coll’s tribe-- Saxon)., Morley,(6). Crofton –town in Agbrigg, 3.5 mi fr Wakefield,6 fr Pontefract, WRY. Crigglestone – village SW of Wakefield, W.Yorksh.Morley(6) Eggborough – village in Selby, North Yorksh. Elland(Elland-Cum-Greetland) – marketown, in Halifax, Calderdale, Agbrigg, WRY.(11) Fishlake - village in Thorne, Doncaster, south Yorkshire, burial place of Thomas Samuel Rushforth d c 1918. Foulby – hamlet in Wragby, Ackworth,5 mi fr Pontifract & Wakefield, Osgoldcross, W.Yorksh.(11) Gilgrange (Ghyllgrange),at Kildwick, Craven,(6) Greenfield – village nr Oldham, N.E. of Huddersflied, W. Yorksh.(11 ) Halifax ( Halyfax)- minster town in Calderdale, W.Yksh., (11 or 6) Halton – a district in east Leeds, W.Yorksh.(9) Haworth – village W.Yorksh. 3 mi. SW of Keighley, 10 mi.E of Colne & west of Bradford.(6 or 11) Heath – village nr. Wakefield, W.Yorksh.(11) Hebden – village near Grassington in Craven, N.Yorksh., in the Wharfedale. Hipperholme is a village in Calderdale area between Halifax and Bradford(6) Holdsworth is a hamlet next to Ovenden, in Calderdale, 1 mi. fr. Halifax centre. Holywell(Holywell Green) village in Calderdale, nr Halifax,Yksh (6) Horton – township in Gisburn(Clitheroe,Staincliffe & Ewcross) W.Yorksh.9.5 mi.fr Skipton(1 or 2) Hortons – a chapelry in parish of Bradford,Morley, W.Yorksh., 2 mi. SW by W of Bradford.(6) Houghton – village in Calderdale, W.Yorksh., 3 mi. from Halifax(11) Houley – a Hall between Morley & Battley, W.Yorksh. Huddersfield – parish town in Agbrigg, 5 mi fr Halifax,13 fr Wakefield, W.Yorksh.(11) Hunslet – township next to and absorbed by Leeds, W.Yorksh.(7) Ilkley; village near Addingham and Skipton, (7 or 9) Keighley – market town in Staincliffe, 10 mi fr Bradford,12 fr Halifax, Morley,(6)W.Yorksh. Kildwick – village in Craven parish, N.Yorksh.,btwn Skipton & Keighley, crossing of the R.Aire.(7) Kinsley – village nr Wakefield, Staincross,W.Yorksh.(11) Kirkthorpe – hamlet in township of Warmfield, 3 mi E of Wakefield, 11 fr Barnsley, W.Yorksh(11). Knottingley – town within Wakefield, W. Yorksh.(11) Leeds – city in W.Yorksh., began as small manorial borough in 1200s, after Dissolution monks expanded trades, leading to industrialization. Manchester – city in Lancashire bordering W.Yorksh(7). Manningham (St.Paul) – township, parish of Bradford(11) Mirfield – parish town in Agbrigg, 3 mi fr Dewsbury, 8 mi fr Wakefield, W.Yorksh.(11) Morecomborn (Morecambe) – seaside town on Morecamborn Bay, Lancashire. Norwood (Norwode) – W.Yorksh. village btwn Bradford, Halifax , Huddersfield, Hipperholme(11) Nostell Priory – Nostell village nr Wakefield, W.Yorksh., was a medieval priory(11) _______________________________________ Origin of the name: ‘rye’: Norman Fr. (river)‘ bank enclosure’ and/or a furrow as made by a plough: ‘ worth, worthy, ward, wardine, even Warren’ – suffix,O.E. “enclosure,fenced in”. Name ‘ rye’ led to ryes, risse, rish or rush , after the Earl of Rye or Ryes. Therefore, Rishworth is a fenced area belonging to Ryes. Surnames vary: Rishworth, Rushworth,Rushforth etc. partly due to dialect or accent, as in [rshwth,rshfth], and partly due to random spelling of the period. . French place names and personal names were brought over after the Conquest and made English place names. Richmond in North Yorkshire means ‘strong hill’.The monastery of Rievaulx combined the name of the Rye river with Old French ‘vals’meaning valley. (Reaney p.194) Hubert , Earl of Rye, and his sons were rewarded with various lands in Yorkshire so Rye or Rie became a prefix of many locations. The suffix ‘by’[bue] means ‘town’ as does ‘ton’ and the suffix ‘burn’ or ‘beck’ means river or stream. The River Rye or the Ryburn, rises in the North York Moors, flows for 38 miles, to join the Derwent River at Malton passing towns including Hawsby and Ryton. |
Wapentakes are administrative areas of West Yorkshire.
Morley and Agbrigg are usually grouped together. Towns of York and Hull were not in wapentakes. 
Ovenden- a village in the Calderdale area next to Boothtown, 1 mi fr Halifax centre((6 or 11) Pontefract – market town in Osgoldcross, 9 mi fr Wakefield, W.Yorksh.(13) Purston Jaglin – township in Feartherstone parish, Osgoldcross (13)W.Yorksh., 2 mi fr Pontefract Ramsgill, Harrogate, North Yorkshire Ravennest – (Ravenfield) town in Strathforth,4 mi fr Rotherham, 9 fr Doncaster, W.Yorksh. Riddlesden – suburborn of Keighley, W.Yorksh.on the Leeds-Liverpool canal(6) Rishworth is a village in Calderdale, Morley,(6) W. Yorkshire. Rowsby – hamlet at Hinderwell, 8 mi fr NW Whitby, North Yorkshire Ryhill – parish in Wragby, Ackworth,6 mi SE of Wakefield, 6.5 mi fr Barnsley, W.Yorksh.(13) Ryes – village in Calvados, France, nr Falaise, nr Bayeux, N.France Ryther is a village near Sandel Magna in Agbrigg(11) Sandel –(Sandel Magna) town in Agbrigg 2 mi fr Wakefield, 8 mi fr Barnsley,(11) W.Yorksh. . Sharlston – hamlet in Warmfield, 5 mi ESE of Pontefract(11) Shelf – village btwn Halifax and Bradford, (6)Morley, West Yorkshire. Snaith – town, Osgoldcross,W.Riding, 7 mi fr Thorne, 14 fr Pontefract, ½ mi S of River Aire. (13) St.Mary Whitechurch (St.Mary’s Whitechurch) – in Leeds, 4 mi fr Leeds Centre, (9)W.Yorksh. Stanroyde,( Stanroy de Yorkshire), unknown but linked to Whalley(6) Upperthong – village south of Hudderfield, Agbrigg, (11)W.Yorksh. Wakefield, Agbrigg, West Riding, Yorkshire - manor lands, was royal estate of Saxon kings, Doomesday lists it to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, nephew of Hubert de Ryes , estate included Sandel, Walton, Crigglestone, Warmfield, (11) Walton, Wakefield – village 3.5 mi SE of Wakefield, home to Walton Hall, converted to hospital in WWII, birthplace of Annette Holden Fetters, daughter of Ivy May Rushforth Holden.(11) Walton , Wetherby – village 2 mi E of town of Wetherby, Knaresborough, Claro(4 or 8) Warmfield - parish town, Agrigg, 5 mi from Pontefract, 4 mi. from Wakefield,.West Yorksh.(11) West Morton( West Mortond) – hamlet 1 mi NW of Town of Keighley; East Morton – village 1 mi N of Bingley, 3 mi SE of Keighley(6). Whalley – village near Blackburn and Burnley on River Calder in Lanc., partly in W.Yorksh. Whitby – seaside town in N.Yorksh. near Scarborough WRY - West Riding of Yorkshire Wragby – parish in Osgoldcross, W.Yorksh.,5 mi SW of Pontefract,6 mi fr Wakefield(13) Wyke – village in Birstal , 4 mi fr Bradford, W.Yorksh. (11 or 6) _____________________________________________ |
9, St Woodhouse Cemetery. Leeds, Yorkshire now known as St. George's Fields During the 1800s and 1900s many members of the above Rushforth family including Benjamin Rushforth were buried in the Woodhouse Cemetery in Leeds which was taken over by Leeds University. Headstones were removed and the space grassed over to serve as a public green space. Leeds University Library holds an archive of the Leeds General Cemetery Company and the indexed burial registers. The Leeds General Cemetery (also known as Woodhouse Cemetery, Woodhouse Lane Cemetery and, since its closure in 1969, St George's Fields) is a former cemetery in Woodhouse, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is now within the campus of the University of Leeds and has been landscaped and kept as an open space. Some original monuments and the cemetery chapel remain. |
The Leeds General Cemetery Company Limited was set up in 1833 to create a new cemetery as that of the parish church was full.[1] The cemetery opened in 1835, and a total of 93,569 interments took place in it.
In 1956 the University of Leeds acquired a majority shareholding in the company and in 1965 the University of Leeds Act was passed which allowed the university to remove monuments and create a public open space. The company went into voluntary liquidation in 1967 and the last burial took place in October 1969. From March to November 1968 contractors removed the headstones and memorials, some of which were subsequently collected by Leeds City Museum, some retained and the rest covered with soil which was then grassed over and landscaped. There were no exhumations. The space re-opened to the public in 1969 as St George's Fields (the name of the area before the cemetery was created). It is valued as a quiet space within the busy campus. |