Books Published
2013 The Battye Families of the Ancient Graveship of Holme West Yorkshire 1535 to 2013
2023 The Battye Families of the Ancient Graveship of Holme West Yorkshire 1535 to 2023
The 2023 Book still has about 3 sections missing and currently lacks updates supplied by previous submitters
Books Held
In the table below is a list of all the books and documents held which are a part of a collection offered to us for safekeeping by the wife of John Hanson Battye who was born in Batley and emigrated to Canada. John spent the last 30 years of his life researching the ‘The Battye Familes of the Ancient Graveship of Holme, West Yorkshire 1535-2013’. John died in 2018.
| Subject | Title | Sub-Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huddersfield | History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry | W.B. Crump & G. Gorbal | |
| Holmfirth | Holmfirth from Forest to Township | Eileen Williams | |
| Holmfirth | The Upper Holme Valley | S.J. Streek | |
| Holmfirth | Holmfirth Place Names & Settlement | ||
| Holmfirth | The History of The Hade Edge Silver Prize Band | To Commemorate the Jubilee 1908-1958 | |
| Meltham | The Story of Meltham | Richard Orton | |
| Wills | Probate Jurisdictions | Where to look for Wills | Jeremy Gibson & Elsie Churchill |
| Wills | Using Wills after 1858 | and First Avenue House | Audrey Collins |
| Bishops Transcripts & Marriage Licences | A Guide to their Location & Inexes | Jeremy Gibson & Elsie Churchill | |
| Batley | The History of Batley | Malcolm H. Haigh | |
| Yorkshire | Yorkshire Surnames Series | Part Two | George Redmonds |
| Yorkshire | Farm Life in a Yorkshire Dale | A Study of Swaledale | W.H. Long & G.M. Davies |
| Saddleworth | The Saddleworth Story | ||
| Battyes | Reminniscences of a Nonagenarian | Throughout the 20th Centuary | Clement Battye |
| Battyes | A Collection of Verse | Fred Battye |