Ways to find your Midgley predecessors^#:

Search on-line at the Familysearch site.

Contact the Wakefield Archives  for most of West and South Yorkshire at:

West Yorkshire Archive Service H.Q
Registry of Deeds
Newstead Rd
Wakefield
West Yorks WF1 2DE

Country Records Office North Yorkshire County Council, County Records Office, Malpas Road, Northallerton.
 

Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
University of York
St. Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green
York YO1 2PW
Holds a great number of records for York and elsewhere. For instance, many parish registers for places in the North Riding are at the Borthwick, including the Selby area .here.

Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (WYAS)
Claremont
23 Clarendon Rd
Leeds S2 9NZ

for West Yorkshire Archives.

There are also further district offices for West Yorkshire archives in Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Sheffield and Doncaster.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council (Archives and Records Service)
County Hall
Champney Rd
Beverley HU17 9BA

which holds the records for the East Riding.
 

Cleveland Archives Dept
Exchange House
6 Marton Rd
Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS1 1DB

for records for that part of North Yorkshire now in Cleveland.
 

Leeds District Archives (WYAS)
Chapeltown Rd
Sheepscar
Leeds LS7 3AP
 
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