July 2008
The freeholders from the 1741 Poll Book who voted in the election for an MP to represent Yorkshire.
Added new information from the 1848 Poll Book showing those who voted in the parliamentary elections for the West Riding seat, with additional information on the right to vote from the 15th-20th centuries.
April/May/June 2008
Added information about the
History of Winterburn including many lists of names. Put an AddThis button on all the KMi pages allowing you to email details of the page to a friend or add the page to your Social Bookmark site.
Added help file about
Social Bookmarking and what it is.
Added an
RSS information file.
An Index to the
Raistrick Documents - relating to Malhamdale and deposited at Skipton Library by the late Dr Arthur Raistrick.
An index to the
Serjeantson of Hanlith Deeds, some of which are held at Skipton Library in the Local Studies section.
Updated several links on the
Links page.
A downloadable
RSS reader widget added to the front page to access the postings from the new forum.
A new, easy to use
Discussion Forum added to make it easier to post comments and questions. Hosted on our own server it lacks the advertising that made the previous hosted service unusable, log in and leave your feedback or ask questions today.
Search Tips added to the
Advanced Search Page.
Added The Malhamdale Local History Group's
Index to their Archives.
Added help and information labels to navigation and other buttons and links on the Township webpages.
Updated the
Winterburn Chapel Page.
Extended the list of burials which took place at the
Airton Quaker Burial Ground and provided updated information on how to find the Airton Quaker records.
informationUpdated the
Parish Records and the
Church and Chapels information pages.
The larger versions of the images have been linked to the
Walter Morrison project pages.
Fixed the PayPal donation links, all contributions to the upkeep and development of the website will be very much appreciated.
January/February/March 2008
Local History Group events for
2008-9 added
New items added to the
Artist's in Malhamdale page.
Added links to more
downloadable books about the area.
Two photos of
Kirkby Malham United School pupils circa 1896 supplied by Neil James added to the MLHG Schools Project.
The
1881 census for Calton added.
The digital version of the research and talk on
Walter Morrison uploaded, although the larger versions of images are still to be linked.
Updated pages about
Scalegill Mill :
Newfield Hall :
Bell Busk Mill :
Airton Mill and
Malham Tarn House, with new information, mainly gleaned from the Times and Guardian newspaper archives.
New census transcriptions added for Scosthrop
1871 :
1881 :
1891 :
1901
and Airton
1851 :
1861 :
1871 :
1881 :
1891 :
1901 plus other census page updates.
September/October/November/December 2007
New links and corrections
Overhauled Home Page with scrollable news items.
Announced the new online project to transcribe the 19th century Parish records for St Michael the Archangel, Kirkby Malham.
Updated the
Malhamdale wills page and added a new index to
Wills proved at York 1380-1688
Quaker Burials : List of Burials at the Airton Friends Meeting House Burial ground (1764 - 1994)
Links page updated.
Added a converter to provide OS map references from location co-ordinates on our
GoogleMaps Malhamdale satellite map page.
June/July/August 2007
Updated Victoria Inn page.
Added GoogleMaps page with highly detailed satellite and map images dating from 2002. Zoom in and search any part of Malhamdale and also get co-ordinates for features.
Updated the Artists in Malhamdale and Church & Chapel pages.
Added a digitised version of the 2nd edition of this excellent little church guide - The Story of the Church of St Michael at Kirkby in Malhamdale
Page aboout
Craven Legion with a list of Malhamdale subscribers 1803.
New page with information provided by Monica Jenkins on
Bill Wild, the Malham blacksmith and artist. Links added, including further volumes of the Memorials of Fountains Abbey, free documents in the National Archives and new satellite images available on Google Earth service.
Scosthrop 1851 Census : HO107 / 2277 fo.462b-464
Scosthrop 1861 Census : RG9 / 3180 fo.18-19
People Finder database added - find the location of people born or living in Malhamdale, as recorded on the 1841-1901 census returns.
Plus various other minor updates and additions
April/May 2007
Brand new open
Discussion Forum added to the site, replacing the now defunct Blog and Feedback pages. We invite all visitors to use the forum to leave details of their interests and ask questions.
Old Blog and Feedback posts have also been archived to become searchable on the site.
1841 Census for
Scosthrop and
Airton thanks to Pat Berry.
Finally updated the picture links on the
Malham Agricultural Show and
Malham at War projects, all the website updates have now been completed.
February/March 2007
Added the
Calton Manor Court Roll 1577.
More
Procter of Bordley wills added, plus various ammendments.
Updates made to
Malham Tarn and House page and the
new meetings calendar and officers added to the Local History Group pages.
Added the will of
Geoffrey Procter of Bordley 1524/5
Picture links fixed of
Malhamdale Education project.
Link added to the Google Books version of the "Life and Correspondence of William & Alice Ellis" of
Airton.
Main Malhamdale and Local History Group pages have now all been updated, only the problem with the links to larger versions of photos on the 3 local history group projects remains to be sorted out.
Datestones and sun dials of Kirkby Malham.
Kirkby Malham 1861 census.
Migrated all the main Township pages of KMI to the new page design, adding many new links and updating others. This is the first part of the upgrade and overhaul of the website.
Added pages for
Winterburn Chapel and where to find
Gargrave and Winterburn parish records.
Updated
Bibliography.
November 2006/January 2007
Sale notice for Newhouses farm, Malham Moor 1808.
Unfortunately, due to the ill health of our webmaster, the addition of new items has slowed down. There are problems with links to many of the larger versions of photographs on the site too, but it is hoped that these will soon be fixed.
Subsidy Roll 1379 - poll tax list for Malhamdale
Feet of Fines - a listing of land transactions in Tudor Malhamdale.
The Weblog discussion area has been discontinued due to lack of use.
A new Archive Search page has been added to simplify searching the National Archives collections.
September/October 2006
Bibliography added - Malhamdale in books, old and new and where possible there are links to help you find copies. Comments about the content of the various publications will be added in due course.
We also now have a Family & Local History Bookshop in association with Amazon.co.uk where you can find other books about the Yorkshire Dales, History and Genealogy. Commission from any purchases will all go toward supporting this website.
Updated
Otterburn history page.
Calton census
1841 &
1851
Links to
Scheduled Monument map for Malham area on the MAGIC map server.
New links to the books
Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains published by the Surtees Society and The Dialect of Craven on Google Books, also one to the legend of the
Banquet of the Dead in Kirkby Malham churchyard.
1907 OS map links added for Malham, Hanlith and Kirkby Malham.
New township links to FlashEarth.com a better browser for the Millennium aerial photographic maps of the area and also the HiRes Google Earth images (without installing the Google Earth browser) when they finally cover Malhamdale.
July/August 200
Added the
1841 and
1851 Malham village census transcribed by Vicky Spence plus the 1851 census transcripts
for
Kirkby
Malham and
Hanlith. This means we now have 3 townships completed, but volunteers
to transcribe the other townships/years would be most welcome.
May/June 2006
More information on Eshton
Hall and the Wilson family plus a page on the manor
of Eshton.
Added a slide show of old Malhamdale images from postcards
to the home page.
Great
Close Cattle Fair and the Birtwhistle family Text
of a talk by Richard Harland, photographs to follow.
Brief History of
Eshton Hall and the Wilson family
Lots of new links for Winterburn
and Eshton including aerial photos of Eshton Hall.
A dozen new links added to other Craven
District Local and Family History websites and Photo Archives.
March/April 2006
1901 Census transcripts added for Kirkby Malham, Hanlith, Calton, Bell Busk & Coniston Cold the 1871 census for Hanlith and 1881 census for Hanlith
Added new Calendar of Events and updated the Contacts List for the Malhamdale Local History Group.
More Malhamdale will references added and details of the Borthwick Institute updated.
January/February 2006
Added various links to the National Park's Out of Oblivion archaeology and local history website and to the Bradfer-Lawrence collection at the YAS, which holds a lot of Malham material from the Ribblesdale family papers and has some interesting example documents for the area on the website.
Improved the navigation and appearance of the search results page.
New material added to Malham Tarn House page.
New Feedback page and form, let us know what you think about the site and would like to see added. You can now send us photographs and files for the Malhamdale History Group Archives too.
Added direct links to township pages for A Vision of Britain website where you can view population statistics, historical gazetteer entries, Civil Parish changes etc. for Malhamdale.
October/November 2005
1771 Map of Malhamdale - an extract of Jefferys Map of Yorkshire courtesy of Digital Archives.
Improved the navigation from all KMI sub pages so that users coming direct from search engines can get to the rest of the site more easily.
Added a PayPal credit card buy link to enable the purchase the Church guide from the webmaster (all proceeds to church funds)
Download our unique Malhamdale Calendar 2006 featuring 12 high resolution old photographs of the dale from our archives. The images have now been zipped so that they don't change size on download.
Article reproduced with permission from issue 29 of Family History Monthly magazine, about the Oliver Cromwell signatures in the Kirkby Malham Parish Registers. (PDF file)
Added the Census for Kirkby Malham 1871.
Various updates including some brief details of Otterburn bridges added to the township's history page (photos to follow).
September 2005
Updated the Virtual War Memorial page with some new information of people found in the Soldiers Died 1914-19 data
Completed the Malhamdale Local History Group's online version of their exhibition Malhamdale at War, depicting WWII in the dale.
Parish map added showing the townships of Kirkby Malhamdale and the surrounding ancient ecclesiastical parishes.
Information on the Procters of Bordley and Winterburn by JW Morkill.
July/August 2005
Brother Ditton's Compotus 1455 : the accounts of St Michael's church, Kirkby Malham, submitted to the Abbot of West Dereham.
Updated the Newfield Hall page.
More material added to Major General John Lambert's page.
Added a short history of Calton Hall, home of the Lamberts.
Court Roll for East Malham, Nov 1577 with many local names.
1861 census transcripts for Kirkby Malham and Hanlith
Some photographs and maps added the the Middle House, Malham Moor page.
Page added with notes from a talk by John Lee on Major General John Lambert
New section of pages started for the Malhamdale Local History Group's exhibition Malhamdale at War, depicting WWII in the dale. It's mainly text at the moment, but pictures and people's recollections of the time will be added over the next few weeks.
1941 National Farm Survey entries for Kirkby Malham.
May/June 2005
Pictures and information added to the Churches and Chapels page.
Update to the Artists & Malhamdale page.
New page added on Malham Tarn and Tarn House.
Page about Great Close House provided by Barrie Sharples.
Middle House a monastic stock farm on Malham Moor
April 2005
Added the Virtual War Memorial page in time for the VE Day Anniversary.
Details of the Malham at War exhibition, 14-15th May at Malham Village Hall.
Updated the Hanlith Hall page with photographs of construction from 1912.
Updated and added various new links, plus some pictures of church restoration to Home page.
Added Instructions for using weblog
February/March 2005
New information added to the Bell Busk silk mill page.
Updated the Malhamdale Local History Group meetings calendar.
Expanded page about Walter Morrison, MP and local benefactor.
Updated the Hanlith Hall page.
January 2005
Updated information on Walter Morrison MP.
Updated information and order form for JW Morkill's "History of Malhamdale",
Update on Kendal family information, Otterburn plus new information on Hill House.
Updated information on Scalegill Mill.
Repaired various damaged picture links of School Project pages.
New Malham mill, Airton mill and Bell Busk mill pages featuring photographs, maps and extracts from George Ingle's book "Yorkshire Cotton".
November 19/26th 2004:
New Feedback Page: we would like your comments to help improve the site.
To make navigation simpler we have also changed the Front Page to a new friendlier format with some News items.
More extensive biographical information about John William Morkill of Newfield Hall and his family.
The obituary of Simon Bell of Calton.
Page about the Local History Group's Malham at War project and appeal for your memories, photographs etc.
October 18th 2004:
Apologies that some larger versions of the pictures are not working on the School History site. I will fix it asap but my real job is rather hectic at present.
Republishing of JW Morkill's "Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale" details and order form.
Page on John William Morkill of Newfield Hall, author of the definitive local history of the Dale.
