"Memoirs of the Hartley Family of Bingley and Staveley,  Yorkshire"
by Minnie Growse (1864-1939),

FOREWORD

This little work has been produced in the hope that it  will be of interest to those people now living who are members  of, or connected with, the families mentioned in it.  Each of the  two compilers is interested in Genealogy, and have carried out  some research with their antecedents, in order to produce the  material included, as they feel that if people have ancestors who  can be traced and identified as such, they would like to have some  written record of them,

Obviously the contents will gain in interest as the years  go by, and it may perhaps prompt succeeding generations to record  their own and their children's doings and particularly their marriages*

The Booklet is built around the "Memoirs of the Hartley Family4' written by Minnie Growse, nee Hartley in 1938 and 1939. These were all written from memory when she was in her middle seventies, and since the material was all recounted to her in her girlhood, there are inevitable inaccuracies, some of which have been corrected in the Notes at the end.   It was Minnie Growse's intention to write similar memoirs about the families of BISHOP, SWANWICK, ALTHAM and FfOULKES, but, sadly, she was overtaken by her last illness, shortly after starting, on the Bishop family. She died in July 1939.

The Booklet tries to include some information about the families of ALTHAM, BISHOP, ADDAMS, SWANWICK, FfOULKES, GROWSE, ST. AUBW and CASSIDY.   These are either covered in Minnie Growse's Memoirs, or in the Pedigree, or both,

The Pedigree endeavours to set out the ancestors of Frederic  Hartley of Low Hall, Knaresborough and Elizabeth ffoulkes Warwick, who married at Stand, near Bury in July 1854, and of the  spouses of those of their ten children, three in number, whose descendants were living in the year 1973 as far as they can be traced.   The three children of the Hartley-Swanwick marriage are Richard, Frederic Arthur and Minnie, all deceased,

The tracing of the ancestry of the spouses of the children of the aforesaid Richard, Frederic Arthur, and Minnie, and of their successors has been left to future generations,

1975  DIANA HARTLEY     PETER GROWSE

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