Researching the Midgley surname World-wide

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252 pages and counting
The Midgley Web Page for Midgley's searching their ancestry  - Main start page
Recent Events 
Free pedigree chart. Download and create multiple copies. To add your family information to the chart go to Tools > Advanced editing, retain digital copies and/or print.
DNA
Midgleyana
The Arms of Midgley, Yorkshire
The Village of Midgley near Halifax
Modern Day Midgley- photographs
Midgley genealogy for West Yorkshire
Midgley of Leeds 
Midgley of Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Midgley's of the East Riding of Yorkshire
Midgley Clocks and Guns
Midgley of Thornton
Census1851
Midgley Names
Reconnect 
Midgley of Todmorden
Halfax Gibbet
Packhorses and packhorse trails in the South Pennines
Midgey of Haworth, Yorkshire
Midgleyeast the hamlet of Midgley, 'Little Midgley,' near Wakefield
Felkirk
The Midgleys of Almondbury, West Yorkshire
The Midgleys of  Almondbury, Nephi and Salt Lake City, Utah.
The manor of Wakefield
The Wakefield Court Rolls

Extractions of all Midgley surnames from the Wakefield Court Rolls 1274-1340   

Sir William de Miggeley, knight.
The honour of Pontefract, Yorkshire
Sandal Castle near Wakefield
Conisbrough Castle
The Elland Feud
Edward I of England
Edward II of England
Edward III of England
The battle of Halidon, 1333
The battle of Crecy, 1346
The Nottingham Coup
Coats of arms in the windows of Selby Abbey 1758
Midgley of Brayton and St. Wilfrid's Church
Midgley of Selby
Sir Wiliam de Hamelton of Hambledon, Yorkshire
Midgley of Normanton
Cawthorne, South Yorkshire
Brooksbanks - Cawthorne
Sir Rowland Hill
Abel Hold, painter and artist
Emigrants of the surname Midgley  England to New Zealand
Midgley of Rochdale, Lancashire
Midgley Loving Cup
Midgley of Stanley, Yorkshire
Midgley of Wharfedale
Samuel Midgley First Fleeter to Australia
Thomas C. Midgley Chemist
Robert of Skelbrooke - an outlaw in Barnsdale
Waltheof - Last of the English earls
Robert Hood of Wakefield, Yorkshire
Anglo Saxon settlement
The Northmen -Viking and Danish tales
Moonchariot - Northmen
Sif - Northmen
Idun -Northmen
Balder the Beautiful
Boreas - Northmen
Ley Lines in West Yorkshire
Yeavering, Northumberland
The Arthurian Legend
Camelot - Camboglanna (Birdoswald) or Castlesteads?
The Danes
The Yorkshire Dialect
Elmete - An ancient British region
The Wars of the Roses
Statistics for the Midgley name from the 1881 census
Some families of the landed of South and West Yorkshire.
Some West Yorkshire heraldic arms
How to make an heraldic shield
Midgley Gedcom - download page for pedigrees of various branches of Midgley
Midgley Genealogy Links
First
Translation
Chromosomes
Caltraps
Project
Midgley Name Links
Midgley Book
Chat
Recent Events - Catch up on the latest news from the Midgblog
Variations in the spelling of the surname Midgley
Earlynames
French origins
Hearth Tax for Midgleys  Lady Day 1672
Midgley Burial Records - England
Search -Plenty of  links to help with the search for your predecessors
Midgley of Halifax
Cawthorne History - South Yorkshire
The Village Assassin
Indexana - Index for the book Midgleyana
Midgleyana page 1- the book
Lord William Hastings and the Calais Wool Staple.
The Elsing Brass, Norfolk  
Domesday Defined
Delaci Family of Yorkshire
Brearley Hall, Mytholmroyd, near Halifax
The 'Pore Knyght' of the Robin Hood Ballads
Midgley of Bingley.txt
Midgley of Chapel Allerton.txt
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/midg_golds.txt
Midgleyana - title page
Midgley of Gomersal  1881 census 
Midgley of Guiseley  1881 census
Midgley of Heptonstall 1881 census
Midgley of Hartley
Midgley of New Zealand
The earls of Chester
Chester Amphitheatre Summer 1967
John of Gaunt - Duke of Lancaster
Midgley in America [U.S.A.]
Midgley of Bradford records
Midgley of Bradford 1881 census
Geoffrey Chaucer
A Knight's Tale
Detective Midgley
Midgley of Thornton 1881 census
Midgley of Thornton Parish records
Midgley workhouse record
Midgley of Blackburnshire
Midgley of Todmorden 1881 census
The Quaker family of Lancashire  which led to the U.S. chemist Thomas Midgley
The Midgley Web Page for Midgley's searching their ancestry. Main index page
Midgley of Haworth 1881 census  
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/baron_joseph.doc
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/release.doc
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/wills_will.doc
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/davids_will.doc
The Spencer-Stanhopes of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, South Yorkshire.
Dronsfield of South Yorkshire
New Hall, 'Little Midgley' near Wakefield.
The Family of Thornhill of Thornhill, Yorkshire. - which family shows the first recorded indications of the surname Midgley in the 1100's
Essulf-Midgley-Thornhill-Everngham  connections
The Saviles of West Yorkshire - Inheritors of Thornhill lands.
The Armitage Family of Kirklees and Clifton-cum-Hartshead, West Yorkshire
Republican - A n 1800's Republican movement in Almondbury, Yorkshire.
The Prioress of Kirklees
Huntingdtonshire and Loxley, of Robin Hood and Yorkshire
Kirklees
Some stewards of the manor of Wakefield
The forest of Sowerby in Sowerbyshire
Skelbrooke - South Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Stone, nr. Skelbrooke
The Battle of Neville's Cross
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Sheriffs of Yorkshire
Comly King
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/miggeley.html
Robin Hood - Entry page 
The Montagues' as the earls of Salisbury.
Midgley of North Yorkshirel 
Jowett House, Cawthorne, South Yorkshire
Cawthorne families of South Yorkshire, 1881 census
Midgley of Barnsley
Abel Hold, 19th century artist - a report by the local Barnsley newspaper
Midgley in Australia
Midgley in Canada
Midgley in South Africa
Midgley of Rochdale 1881 census
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/midgley1881.txt
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/midgley21881.txt
Midgley of Lancashirel
The Pinder of Wakefield
Robert Hood [and variations thereof] of Newton near Wakefield
Midgley of Spofforth 1881 census 
Midgley of Kirkby Overblow 1881 census
Midgley of Bardsey 1881 census
Midgley of Harewood
Midgley of Otley 1881 census
Midgley of Breary 1881 census
Midgley of Alwoodley 1881 census 
Midgley of Collingham 1881 census
Midgley of East Keswick, Yorkshire.
Midgley of Adel 1881 census - Some Midgley predecessors/relatives of Catherine Princess of Wales
Midgley of Cookridge 1881 census
Ethyl - the story of high octane petrol.
Place-names which include the name Robin Hood
Hood surname statistics.
Mythical or Enigmatic Maid Marian
Friars
Myriads of Robin Hoods
Early English Ballads
Little John
Roger de Doncastre
Shire-Reeve
The Saylis
Alice de Laci [Lacy] heiress of the honours of Pontefract and Clitheroe
Barnsdale Gallery
Family of Annora de Umfreville, wife of Stephen II Le Waleys - of South Yorkshire 
The many images of Robyn Hode over the ages
Cadbury Castle, Dorset
Portchester Castle, Hampshire
The earl of Warwick, Richard Neville.- 'The King-Maker'.
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/yorksgen.pdf
Arthur Midgley- Painter
Escape! - A game of skill.
Gudgeon - A Fisherman's Tale in Australia.
The Normans in England
Midgley of Halifax 1881 census
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/halifax.doc
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/contents.html The History of Cawthorne by Rev. C.T. Pratt (scanned)
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap01.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap02.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap03.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap04.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap05.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap06.html
https://www.midgleywepages.com/chap07.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap08.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap09.html
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/chap10.html
midgleyana chapter 2
midgleyana chapter  3
midgleyana chapter  4
midgleyana chapter  5
midgleyana chapter  6
midgleyana chapter 7
midgleyana chapter  8
midgleyana chapter  9
midgleyana page 10
midgleyana sources
Titles of the English and French Nobility.
The Battle Abbey Roll
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/jeff_staff.pdf - Jeff Stafford's thoughts about the origins of  'Robyn Hode'.
Midgley of Winewall
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/gauntline.txt
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/paston.txt
Coventina the water goddess
Coins
Midgley of Thirsk and Coxwold
https://www.midgleywebpages.com/testamenta.doc
Perfumes & Fragrances - How one Midgley made his living capturing fragrant essences.
The early Yorkshire family of Horbury nr.  Wakefield
Jervaulx Abbey - Where Simon de Midgley was abbot for about 8 years (1304-1314)
Monk Bretton Priory
Selby Abbey -Coats of Arms
'John Midge' the Highwayman - in the time of Dick Turpin.

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