Mecca News
‘The Mecca News’ was The Society's award winning journal published three times a year. It contained members’ news, amusing snippets, requests for help or offers of help, member updates, and Metcalfe stories of interest past and present. Since Covis, we have published our eNewsletter 6 times a year, carrying the same information and articles of interest.
The attached is a list of the major content of past issues of Mecca News, although that is only the tip of the iceberg. Also included in most issues are Comments from the Chairperson of the day, Editorial Comments and Archivists reports from the incumbant of the day and Birth Briefs as they have been submitted by you, the members. Article included have been submitted by members and cover a wide variety of interests and topics. The very early issues may not have copied or printed well, and for that we apologise.
Why is it called The ‘Mecca’ News? What is the relevance of the name ‘Mecca’?
On this occasion Mecca has nothing to do with religion or playing bingo .... Mecca is the shortened slang nickname that was used by many men called Metcalfe in the Yorkshire Dales, who were therefore known as ‘Mecca’. Once in a while it can still be heard today in the area!
Even in today’s online world, so many looked forward to receiving their Mecca News journal to sit down, relax and have a good read! That is maybe why the journal had been both commended and won the Elizabeth Simpson Award for one name family history society magazines in the past. Unfortunately, following the resignation of the Editor, and the onset of the pandemic, we changed the format to an electronic newsletter, which we now send out bi-monthly to all members with an email address. Those members without emails are sent hard copies each quarter. The Newletter has similar content to the Mecca News and is full of interesting items.
Have you got a good story or snippet?
The Editor of the Mecca Newsletter is always keen to hear from members with a good story, comment, feedback, snippet that may be of interest to other members. Maybe you saw a comment or story about a Metcalfe in the newspaper, on television, or the internet. Do take a moment or two and send any suggestions to our Editor (see Contacts).
Back Issues of Mecca News are available online.
Take a look at the list of contents in back issues below and see the varied and interesting articles and don't forget that in addition to the posted contentsm we have also had lots of additional very short snippets over the years. They can be accessed online by clicking on the download button alongside ech Issue
| 122 | 2020 Dec | Download PDF | Timeline of Key Metcalfe Society Events; Dissent in the Northern Dales & Beyond; The First 100 Metcalfe Society Members; The Metcalfe Museum; Mecca Muster Anniversary Photos; Cross & Shovel; Obituary for Patrick Malham; Reminiscences of an Ex-Chairman; The New Book - Metcalfe Family Histories; An Historical Society Perspective; When in Command; Mecca Muster Photo Roundup 1980-2009; Reminiscences from the Membership Joan Metcalfe & Valerie Metcalfe; Metcalfe DNA Where to Next?; The Reverend Lister Metcalfe & my Metcalfe Connection; Mecca Muster Photo Round up 2010-2016; Melbourne to Gallipoli; Mecca Muster photo roundup 2017-2019 | Back Cover; Autumn Colours in the Howgills near Dent |
| 121 | 2020 Aug | Download PDF | The Metcalfes & the Afflecks; Future of Metcalfe Society; Letter from Gallipoli; Metcalfe Family Histories New Book | Back Cover; St. Andrew's Parish Church Sedbergh; Cumbria |
| 120 | 2020 Apr | Download PDF | Robbery & Retribution; Booth Hay Metcalfe Victorian Army Officer; Metcalfe Teachers; Yorkshire Group FFHS; Unexpected Genealogical Encounters | Back Cover; Dicky Metcalfe's Old Cross Keys, Cautley |
| 119 | 2019 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster; Metcalfe Bread Charity of Banbury; Pedestrianism; Jane Austen; Yorkshire Group FHS; Muster Presentation; Four Metcalfe Men | Back Cover; Four Metcalfe Men, photographed by Muriel Metcalfe, Keswick 1976 |
| 118 | 2019 Aug | Download PDF | Three Brothers Go to War; The Borthwick Archive York; PC Matthew Metcalfe; Grandfather & Grandson; York Family History Fair | Back Cover; Weather Brewing over the Buttertubs |
| 117 | 2019 Apr | Download PDF | Metcalfe & USA Civil Rights; Yorkshire Group FFHS; Ralph Tiplady Metcalfe; Family History in One Book; Charles & Mary Metcalfe Great Grandparents; Ancestor in Athens Greece; Red Hall Leeds; Obituaries & A Surprise Hassock; Dorothy Pope, a Century plus One | Back Cover; A & M Metcalfe's Shop in Pickering, North Yorkshire |
| 116 | 2018 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster 6 October 2018; a Personal Portrait; The Metcalfes Need You!; Henry Metcalfe & Sons Whitesmiths; Dan Metcalfe Installation Artist; Metcalfes in World War I; Moving to E-Journals; World War II Enquiry; Manorial Documents; World War I Booklet | Back Cover; Margaret Jane Metcalfe's Memorial; Sedbusk |
| 115 | 2018 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfe Society Committee Departures; Metcalfe vs Metcalfe; View from the Western Front 1918; Janson Medcalf an Alternative Theory; Two Sisters Emigrate; GDPR A Guide; Lawrence James Metcalf; Obituaries & Bench Plaque | Back Cover; The River Ure, Hawes & St Margaret's Church |
| 114 | 2018 Apr | Download PDF | Treasurer's Portrait; Private David Metcalfe; William Metcalfe, Mayor of Woodstock 1608; East Yorkshire Metcalfes; Yorkshire Group FFHS; Obituaries & Gravestones; Dorothy Pop - a Metcalfe Centurion | Back Cover; St Michael & All Angels, Hubberholme, Wharfedale |
| 113 | 2017 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster; Blind Jack Metcalfe; USS Metcalf; Medcalfs of Rochester Kent; Yorkshire Group FHS; Private Samuel E. Metcalfe Clevelander; Nidderdale Brewery Pateley Bridge | Back Cover; The River Swale at Thwaite, Upper Swaledale |
| 112 | 2017 Aug | Download PDF | Marsden Metcalfe; From Humble Beginnings; Stan Laurel's Parents' Rowing Medal; Obituaries & Gravestones | Back Cover; St Mary's & St John's Church, Hardraw |
| 111 | 2017 Apr | Download PDF | Metcalfe County Kentucky; Betsy Morphet; DNA Testing; Frideswide Metcalfe; One Man's War; Metcalfe Pawnshop Customers; Colonel John F. Metcalfe's WWI & WWII; Obituaries & Gravestones; Romantic Metcalfes | Back Cover; St John's Church, East Witton |
| 110 | 2017 Jan | Download PDF | Mecca Muster; Nina Benson Our President; Counted Cross Stitch; DNA Project; Fred Metcalfe Missing on the Somme; Ancestral Tourism & West Yorks Archive; Calf Top Metcalfe Mountain; Surviving the Workhouse; Obituaries | Back Cover; River Ure at Aysgarth |
| 109 | 2016 Aug | Download PDF | Wills Project; Metcalfes Stamps & Coins; The Mysterious Robert Metcalfe; Restoration of Two Metcalfe Grave Memorials.....; Norfolk Island; Arthur Metcalfe Cyclist; More News regarding Scrope Metcalfe Esq. | Back Cover; Dean Head farm house; 1905 |
| 108 | 2016 Apr | Download PDF | A Church Living; The Reverend George Metcalf; Wellington's Chaplain; A Metcalfe Drives The Flying Scotsman; Finding Mecca Ministers; Thomas Metcalf of Hucknall | Back Cover; The Flying Scotsman, York Feb. 2016 |
| 107 | 2015 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster; Edgar Metcalfe...; Voluntary Aid Detachment; Mecca Plantation Owners and Slave Masters; Manorial Documents Register | Back Cover; Rigg House; High Abbotside |
| 106 | 2015 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalf's Toothbrush; The Right to Vote; Metcalf's Comet; Policemen in Manchester | Back Cover; Thornton Rust, Wensleydale |
| 105 | 2015 Aug | Download PDF | A French Connection; Deaths at Sea; Silver War Badge; Recollections of the Home Postal Centre; Retford Meccas; Metcalfe for Congress | Back Cover; J Metcalf; Jewellers; Fakenham Norfolk |
| 104 | 2014 Dec | Download PDF | FFHS News; John Metcalfe. Westmorland Murderer; Blind Syke in Bishopdale; Military Records; Muster Roundup; Yorkshire Bishops Transcripts; William Metcalfe – Redcoat; The Sampler | Back Cover; Metcalfe Brewers of Pateley Bridge |
| 103 | 2014 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfes in World War I; Electoral records - Poll Books; Who was Mrs I Metcalfe?; History in the Making Feature; We Will Remember Them; Metcalfe's and the Tour de France; SWAAG | Back Cover; Animal Tour de Dales! |
| 102 | 2014 Apr | Download PDF | Metcalfe Motor Coasters; Army Records; The Fighting Metcalfes; Who Do You Think You Are – Live; Stories of Aged Ouseburn Pair; Why our Great Grandparents.... | Back Cover; The Millenium Monument; Buttertubs Pass |
| 101 | 2013 Dec | Download PDF | Christmases in the 1940's; A Family in Arms; Christmas in 1940's New Zealand; Our visit to Yorkshire; "Now Metcalfe!"; Muster 2013; Antipodean Treasures; My Worst Xmas; Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge; Have you come across... | Back Cover; Autumn Colours, Grinton, Swaledale |
| 100 | 2013 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfe in the First World War; 73 inches of rain .....; Living Tally in the Classic Slum?; Jose Hopper; The Sheffield Flood; Keld Swaledale; Is it a conundrum or a conunbell?; Liberty Ship - Jesse H Metcalf | Back Cover; Autumn in Swaledale |
| 99 | 2013 Apr | Download PDF | Inventions, Trade Marks & Patents; A Very Heavy Price; Metcalfe/Beresford Links; Manorial Documents Register; The Families in British India Society; Working on the Railway | Back Cover; Early Spring in Wensleydale |
| 98 | 2012 Dec | Download PDF | Cowside; Langstrothdale...; Royal Connections; Marsden’s Story - A Soldier's Collection; AGM & Muster Roundup; A Village; a Dutch Barn and a Mecca; Voyages of the William Mitcalfe | Back Cover; Renovated Metcalfe window, St. Andrews, Aysgarth |
| 97 | 2012 Aug | Download PDF | KIRKBRIDE the edge of the known world; Sandi's Serendipity; A Marriage Mug for Benjamin & Elizabeth Medcalf; Metcalfes in 1983; Marsden's Story Part III; A Newcomer to Askrigg | Back Cover; Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa |
| 96 | 2012 Apr | Download PDF | Railway Engineers to the World"; Marsden’s Story (Part II); From Beasts and Bravery to Bradford and Bainbridge; Metcalfe Family Get-Together; Suffolk Meccas; Serendipity | Back Cover; The Evening Star, last train built by Davies & Metcalfe |
| 95 | 2011 Dec | Download PDF | Using the Computer Index; Marsden’s story; Nappa Hall Visit; Newspapers; The Hibernian; The Few; The Life of Henry Metcalfe.......; Alice Metcalfe discovered | Back Cover & inside cover – Nappa Hall visit |
| 94 | 2011 Aug | Download PDF | Coat of Arms; Warwick Metcalfe; The Discovery of The Chronicle of Private Henry Metcalfe; Getting Started; Theophilus John Metcalfe 5th; The Corpse Road; The Royal Connection; Matthew Metcalf 1727; Providence, Rhode Island – Jesse Metcalf Building | Back Cover – The Kings Arms, Fearby Cross, Masham (Metcalfe Tenant) |
| 93 | 2011 Apr | Download PDF | History & Traditions of Ravenstonedale...; Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe; On the Trail of A York Hero; The Other Side of the Family; A Metcalfe Village, Hawstead Suffolk; The California Gold Rush 1849; Mecca coin counterfeiters & experts | Back Cover – Bench – In Memory of John Robert Metcalf, 1927-1992, St Louis, Missouri, USA |
| 92 | 2010 Dec | Download PDF | 30th Anniversary Muster; Impressions of the Metcalfe Society AGM 2010; Using the Tithe Map as Background to Local & Family History; Little Big Horn; Cairn on Crook; Mecca DNA Project Update.; Metcalfe Sycophants; The Macfie Collection; Wensleydale Giant; Gleaning s from the World Wide Web; Metcalfe Sycophants | |
| 91 | 2010 Aug | Download PDF | The Indian Judge; Perhaps we were getting it wrong; Military Records; Metcalfes in Upper Wensleydale 1605/1613; Listen to the Band; Early American Meccs; Space | Back Cover – Hardraw Churchyard, Wensleydale – To the memory of Margaret Jane Metcalfe |
| 90 | 2010 Apr | Download PDF | Inghamites & Sandemanians; The Mecca Cavalier; Riot! ; Sarah Ellen; Wills; Metcalfe Clockmakers; Grandfather Christopher; The Somme; The bad ones | Back Cover – Nappa Hall, Wensleydale |
| 089-001 | 2009 Dec | Download PDF | Index of the Mecca News Contents for Issues 1-89 prepared by C.S. Metcalfe M305 2018-12-21 | |
| 89 | 2009 Dec | Download PDF | Poor Law Project; The Eldon Testimonial; National Farm Surveys 1940-43; The Morning Chronicle 1818; There was a Flower; Where there is a Will; The Day of the Muster | Photo – Metcalfe’s Farm, Reeth, Swaledale |
| 88 | 2009 Aug | Download PDF | How Strange....; The Metcalfes of Hawstead, Suffolk; D'ye Ken John Peel?; Simon Metcalf landowner; trader and ill tempered Yorkshireman; Still in the Buggy; Descendants of Charles Theophilus Baron Metcalfe of Fernhill; The Hearth Tax; Why our Metcalf ancestors were happy; Shipwreck update; Ingleton War memorial | Photo – Rigg House, Birkrigg, Hawes, Wensleydale |
| 87 | 2009 Apr | Download PDF | John (Blind Jack) of Knaresborough; Harry Metcalfe's Cycling Journey .....1932; A Family Obelisk; The Parish Clerk; Lists; Diary of a Victorian Junior Officer. Part 2; Austwick Coincidence; Metcalfe's and the GAR; Stan Laurel Memorial | Back Cover – Bear Park, Aysgarth, Wensleydale |
| 86 | 2008 Dec | Download PDF | Nappa Hall Under New Ownership!; Captain George Robert Metcalfe; Voyage to Australia. Part 3; The Metcalfe Shield; Ada's Story; Metcalfe DNA Project; Crazy Ancestors?; The Metcalf tartan | Photo – Pry House, Upper Wensleydale |
| 85 | 2008 Aug | Download PDF | THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER....; Voyage to Australia. Part 2; Federation of Family History Societies; Diary of a Victorian Junior Officer. Part 1; Cambridgeshire Metcalfes; A town called Metcalfe; In the Navy 1869-91 Photo: Ralph H Metcalfe Federal Centre, Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
| 84 | 2008 Apr | Download PDF | Voyage to Australia; The Weather Glass; Metcalfe's of Fort Collins; Mrs Vera Adams; Metcalfe's Missing Millions; The Weavers of Barnard Castle | Back Cover – Metcalfe House, New Delhi, India |
| 83 | 2007 Dec | Download PDF | Muster Roundup; Christmas in the Dales; Those in glasshouses...; Blind Jack of Knaresborough; DNA Profiling won’t help; Meccas in the news | Photo – Metcalfe House, Fort Collins, Colorado |
| 82 | 2007 Aug | Download PDF | A Pure Bred Metcalfe; Gayle Mill update; An Unfortunate Start in Life; Nappa Hall Memories; Bishopdale Archives 2007; How Old Am I?; The Luddite Connection Part 3; T' Auld Gaet | Photo – Metcalfe Buildings: Muker Free School, Swaledale 1660 |
| 81 | 2007 Apr | Download PDF | The Luddite Connection.; Part 2Trial and Tribulation; Copyright Photographs; Not to the want of zeal or knowledge; From Ravenstonedale to Lancashire; With a Little Bit O' LuckAgain; This Absurd Tradition; Muster on Middleham Moor, 1535; From the Past – Bainbridge hornblower | Photo: Metcalfe Buildings, Hipswell Mill, Catterick |
| 80 | 2006 Dec | Download PDF | The Luddite Connection Part 1; A New and Quite Different Project; Lest We Forget; The Metcalfe Orphans of Christchurch, New Zealand; Billy Tommy Will ot’h condle mill; Flags Cottage; London & Middlsex Mecca’s | Photo - The Metcalfe Arms, Howstead, Suffolk |
| 79 | 2006 Aug | Download PDF | Food for Thought; Metcalfe DNA Project; A Merchant Adventurer; A Spring Conference; Stonehammer County; Well Travelled Meccas; Hawaiian Connection; By Eck! or Where to Now? | Photo – The Mecca coal trimmers of Hull |
| 78 | 2006 Apr | Download PDF | Metcalfe Links with Newby Hall; A Mecca Puzzle Solved; A Curve of Memory......; South African Metcalf's; Who is Driver Metcalf?; Katrina, Daughter of Eve; More East Yorkshire Mecca’s | |
| 77 | 2005 Dec | Download PDF | Test Your Metcalfe DNA; Waltzing Matilda; Nappa Hall Ahead; New Metcalfe Coat of Arms; A Curve of Memory.....; Burtersett; Austin E B Metcalfe; Photo – Gathering of the Clan 2005 | Back Cover – Metcalfe Traffic does not stop |
| 76 | 2005 Aug | Download PDF | What’s in a Name?; Ireland’s Metcalfe Gathering; A curve of memory; Mobile Meccas | |
| 75 | 2005 Apr | Download PDF | Mecca dialects; A prof’s own adventure; The Metcalfes of Fordham; The search for William Charles Metcalfe; Photos of some WWI soldiers from Harrogate | |
| 74 | 2004 Dec | Download PDF | Extracts from the memoirs of Tom Metcalfe; Nicholas Metcalfe – Clerk in Holy Orders; A learned, skilful and tender hearted Physician; Boer War Meccas; Edward Barnard Metcalfe; A dying confession; Victoria Cross update | |
| 73 | 2004 Aug | Download PDF | Vegetarianism: The Metcalfe connection; ‘Not of my making; Family History sources, Libraries; Mecca influence or today the News, tomorrow…; Beldy Hill; Military Metcalf’s; Calves comments; …in which I served | Back Cover – On the road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire |
| 72 | 2004 Apr | Download PDF | Lead mining in the Dales, Part 3: The Beldy Hill dispute; So whose calved are they?; Norfolk Island doctor; We don’t know who we are; Metcalf VC; Unseemly scrimmage | Back Cover – Eleanor Metcalfe memorial |
| 71 | 2003 Dec | Download PDF | The Sunderland Metcalf’s; Lead mining in the Dales, Part 2; Mourning Brooch; First Missionary | |
| 70 | 2003 Aug | Download PDF | Lead mining in the Dales, Part 1; Charles Theophilus baron Metcalfe, A Love story….?: A tortuous & ungodly jumble, Part V; I am my own Grandpa; Metcalfe’s Law | Back Cover Metcalfe Fair, Canada |
| 69 | 2003 Apr | Download PDF | A new way for Family History?; Civil Registration, Vital change; Is Capt. Oates related to the Metcalf family?; A history of ownership the Old Post Office, Scorton, Part II; Writing your own Metcalfe story; A tortuous & ungodly jumble, Part IV; Metcalfes in Cumbria 1829 | |
| 68 | 2002 Dec | Download PDF | A history of ownership the Old Post Office, Scorton, Part I; A long journey to the Muster; A tortuous & ungodly jumble, Part III; Francis Edward Medcalf 1883-1927; Mistaken Identity; Metcalfe fatalities in mining accidents in NE England; Askrigg Jubillee Scarecrows | Photo – A seat with a view |
| 67 | 2002 Aug | Download PDF | The Raydale siege; A tortuous & ungodly jumble, Part II; The old yards of Darlington; The one that got away! | |
| 66 | 2002 Apr | Download PDF | A tortuous & ungodly jumble, Part I; Metcalfes at the Marae; Extracts from Northern Catholics; A genealogical journey; What are Lists and how can they help you? | Inside back cover - Semerwater |
| 65 | 2001 Dec | Download PDF | It’s all in the genes- part III; My Colonial Metcalfes; Family’s twin Record; Blind Jack’s violin; Helping your archivist to help you | Inside back cover – Overlooking Sedburgh |
| 64 | 2001 Aug | Download PDF | An American line; Francis Henry Medcalf; To escape the monster’s clutches 1792; Metcalfe Memorials | |
| 63 | 2001 Apr | Download PDF | Letters from a seafaring man; Modern Mecca’s; Napoleon’s coffin; Canadian War Dead WWI & WWII | Back Cover – Swaledale from Crackpot Hall |
| 62 | 2000 Dec | Download PDF | The Nation’s best kept secret; Rev Arthur Metcalfe – a biography; It’s all in the genes – part II; The Family Records Centre | Back Cover – Richmond Castle |
| 61 | 2000 Aug | Download PDF | The Society of Friends II; Charles Halliday Metcalfe; Willard Leroy Metcalfe; Working on the Railways; Christmas in March | |
| 60 | 2000 Apr | Download PDF | A Metcalfe clockmaker; The Metcalfe water wheel; It’s a small world; The Society of Friends I; A Yank in Hawes; Where they eat folk | |
| 59 | 1999 | Download PDF | News from the Archives; It's All In The Genes -. Part I Theophilus the Scribe; On the World Wide Web; Subscriptions Policy; The Northern Family History Fairs | |
| 58 | 1999 Aug | Download PDF | A meeting down under; The Richard III Foundation; Metcalfe school masters; Where there’s a Will..; Roman numerals; Metcalfe sightings; To the Manor Born II – Manorial Records; Military Birth Registrations – Part III; Just a thought | |
| 57 | 1999 Apr | Download PDF | News from the Archives; PRO News; Metcalfe Research Overseas; Metcalfe Records; To the Manor Born I - Manorial Records; Lt Edmund Whiteford Metcalfe | |
| 56 | 1998 Dec | Download PDF | Nina - An Appreciation; Hipswell Mill Part II; By Their Misdemeanours Shall Ye Know Them; Metcalfe History of the Clan - Launch of The Book; Impressions of the Muster, fantastic coincidence | |
| 55 | 1998 Aug | Download PDF | Hipswell Mill; From Hell, Hull and Halifax.....; The GRO Indexes 8; Unknown Cousins Part II; Cathedral of the Dales; Federation AGM Report | |
| 54 | 1998 Apr | Download PDF | Unknown Cousins Part I; East Indies Connections; Wensley Church; The Council of Family Societies; A day out ...Courtesy of Yorkshire TV | |
| 53 | 1997 Dec | Download PDF | The Metcalfe Book; The Railway Metcalfes; Muster '97; New Birth Brief Booklet; The Biggest Turnout Yet; Deeds of Covenant | |
| 52 | 1997 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfes and Brushmaking; Copyright; A Whitby Coal Cat; The Scene of the Crime; St Andrew's Aysgarth; It's All Yours; Family Reminiscences; The William Metcalfe | |
| 51 | 1997 Apr | Download PDF | The Metcalfes as Millers; Rules and Regulations; How I found my Metcalfes and the Consequences Part 2; I am my own Grandpa; The Metcalfes of Hull; Ralph Tiplady Metcalfe | |
| 50 | 1997 Jan | Download PDF | The Metcalfes in St Helena; Autobiography of Fred Metcalfe; The Lady Mary of Middleham; How I found My Metcalfe Family....; Agincourt. The rise of Nappa; Christopher Metcalfe Gentleman...; Once Bitten; Twice Shy; I Am Still Stuck! | |
| 49 | 1996 Aug | Download PDF | A Kiwi's Genealogy Jaunt; Who deals with what?; The Metcalfe Windows; St Margaret's Church Hawes; Data Protection Act 1984; You never know what you will find; Clifford Metcalfe; Putting on a show | |
| 48 | 1996 Apr | Download PDF | A Stroke of Good Luck or the making of the Fortune of Joe Metcalfe; The 1996 Mecca Muster; Another View of the Landlord and Tenant Relationship; p. 14; St Oswald's Church Askrigg; An Encounter with Ned Kelly | |
| 47 | 1995 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster 1995; That sly fox; Long lived Metcalfes; The Cowkeepers; Colonel The Rev. Neville Metcalfe; The Homecoming | |
| 46 | 1995 Aug | Download PDF | The Brough Cotton Mill; When is a M*tc**f or a M*dc**f not a Metcalfe?; Seafaring Metcalfes; William Ramshaw Metcalfe; Wandering through the indexes | |
| 45 | 1995 Apr | Download PDF | The first Metcalfe divorce?; Ensign Metcalfe; A court martial offence; A modern search; The Last resort; Canadian Mecca’s; Not up the pole | |
| 44 | 1994 Dec | Download PDF | The Quest for Thomas Metcalfe; Strays, 1891 UK Census; Metcalfe in Mallerstang 1754; Tyne Cot Memorial Register, WWI; The Metcalfe Library list (held in Hawes Museum) | |
| 43 | 1993 Aug | Download PDF | Letter from America; Metcalfe Listings, Craven’s Great War Metcalfes; Metcalf Will Abstracts | |
| 42 | 1994 Apr | Download PDF | Early Metcalfes among the Freeman of York; The Kingman – Charles Metcalfe; John Ogilby – cartographer; Prof. Donald Metcalf, Canberra Times, Mon. Oct. 4 1993 | |
| 41 | 1993 Dec | Download PDF | Metcalfe Volunteers, 1793; The Metcalfes of Nappa; Charles Metcalfe (Ohio); Methodist Circuits 1837-1932 | |
| 40 | 1993 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfes who died in the far East in WWII; Metcalfe weekend at Countsett Hall; Wensleydale; A Farmers Lament; Keld Independent records | |
| 39 | 1993 Apr | Download PDF | From Arkefrith to Howard Metcalfe 995-1992 – a response; Fact file about the earliest Metcalfes –; Early Metcalf Emigrants to Nove Scotia –; Bedale Police Charge Book | |
| 38 | 1992 Dec | Download PDF | Two down-under Metcalfes pay us a visit; From Arkefrith to Howard Metcalfe 995-1992; How to put your ancestors in their historical context; AD 1979; Another year in the life of William Metcalfe; Emigrants to the Americas | |
| 37 | 1992 Aug | Download PDF | Porch House, Northallerton; A delve in the Dales; part 3; Are you named after your uncle? ; Leonard Metcalfe; Research in the College of Arms; Bankrupt Metcalfe? | |
| 36 | 1992 Apr | Download PDF | AD 1786…A year in the life of William Metcalf, Sessay Parks, Thirsk; Body Snatchers in Yorkshire; Spencer’s Directory of Richmond, 1886; A delve in the Dales; part 2; Letters written by Richard & John Buxton | |
| 35 | 1991 Dec | Download PDF | A delve in the Dales; part 1 – Denny Gibson; Commit it to the cobwebs; Society Surnames; Laurence Oates; A very gallant gentleman; The oldest house in Northallerton; The Story of my life, Rev. Joseph Metcalf | |
| 34 | 1991 Aug | Download PDF | Metcalfe fortunes under Richard III; The Shade of Scots Mary; The Metcalfe missing millions; the final chapter; Journey to Australia; Personal Diaries for the Archives | |
| 33 | 1991 Apr | Download PDF | Victoria; Australia Index extracts; Metcalfes in Upper Wensleydale 1605-1613; The Metcalfe missing millions; The Metcalfes of the Dales J F Bord; South Otterington Church MI’s | |
| 32 | 1990 Dec | Download PDF | Remarkable potholing discoveries beneath Darnbrook House; Emigration in the 17th century; A 17th Century survey of the Manor of Wensleydale; Dalesman article; Rev Lister Metcalfe, part 2; Assisted Immigration to New Zealand | |
| 31 | 1990 Aug | Download PDF | An old bible; The early spread of the Metcalfes; Metcalfe estates in Dominica; Spouse search; Muker marriages; Obituaries of Metcalfes in Bradford Library | |
| 30 | 1990 Apr | Download PDF | The Green Howard connection | |
| 29 | 1989 Dec | Download PDF | Hawes MI’s; To be or not to be a Metcalf; A 15th century lawyer; Wills project; Hardraw MI’s; Metcalf; Illinois; Hertfordshire indictments | |
| 28 | 1989 Aug | Download PDF | Gayle, Yorks, MI’s; A 15th Century Lawyer; The Canadian Connection; Unclaimed Dividends; Part 2; A Common Soldier; North Riding M’s; The Reverend Lister Metcalfe; part 1 | |
| 27 | 1989 Apr | Download PDF | A visit to Nappa Hall; Unclaimed dividends; Part 1 – Sal Illingworth; The Dornix Weaver; Metcalfes at the Maritime Museum | |
| 26 | 1988 Dec | Download PDF | Note on the Metcalfe Clan; The Metcalfes of fern Hill; Part 2. Dornix Weaver; part 2; Heavenly Connections; From Saint to Sinner; Black Sheep | |
| 25 | 1988 Aug | Download PDF | Cherry tree farm; The Metcalfes of fern Hill; Part 1; Boer War Casualties; Nicknames in Upper Swaledale; The Road to the Moor (Dalesman); Sim’s snuff box; Hardraw Monumental inscriptions; Dornix Weaver; part 1; South Durham Marriage Index; Loan Arranger- William Metcalfe; Kirkby Malzeard Metcalfes; Leeds Census index1951 | |
| 24 | 1988 Apr | Download PDF | Wills project; Stars of the Silver Screen; The Caribbean Connection; Necessity’s Children; Where there’s a Will there’s a way; More tales of Deering Do; Buxton’s Briefing | |
| 23 | 1987 Dec | Download PDF | An American VC; Murder Most Foul; Adding to our Laurels; Times Past; Famous Metcalfes; Buxton’s Briefing; Sedburgh School Records | |
| 22 | 1987 Aug | Download PDF | Mecca Muster & AGM 1988; IGI; A Good Old Age; Monuments found in Shirley Derbyshire Churchyard; Charities and Poor Relief Leeds 16/17th Cent.; Pavers Marriage Licences 1674-1714; Monumental Inscriptions Hawes Anglian Church | |
| 21 | 1987 Apr | Download PDF | Book Corner; Wills Proved at Chester Fourth & Last Part; American & English Genealogies in the Library of Congress 1919; Origins of the Name; Kendal Deanery; Nappa Hall Wensleydale; The Metcalfes in ‘Yorkshire Village’; Fountains Abbey Lease Book; Metcalfe Index Lists 1986; Freemen of the City of London 1709-1894; Richmond Pioneer of Shorthand | |
| 20 | 1986 Dec | Download PDF | Mecca Muster 1986; Contemplations from the K.O.G.I.; From Hawnby near Hemsley Yorkshire to Nova Scotia Canada; Wills Proved at Chester Part Three; Census Returns | |
| 19 | 1986 Aug | Download PDF | Wills Proved at Chester Part Two; The Metcalfe Index Additions January-December 1985; Interests First Aroused; The Gentleman’s Magazine; Westminster Abbey Muniment Room | |
| 18 | 1986 Apr | Download PDF | Wills Proved at Chester. How to Locate Wills in the Lancashire Record Office; From Fosters Yorkshire Pedigrees; From a 1930 Catalogue of Documents for Sale; Sophia Ruth Metcalfe (Cawthra); A Problem to Unravel Metcalf(e) Saddleworth Yorks; With a Little Bit O’Luck; A Lincolnshire Metcalf Family; How The Metcalfe Society Began | |
| 17 | 1985 De | Download PDF | From ‘Pennine Panor (Mark Metcalfe Clockmaker); From The Yorkshire Dalesman November 1947; A Stranger Visits Yorkshire; Hipswell Mill | |
| 16 | 1985 Aug | Download PDF | Southerscales George’; Porch House Northallerton; Famous Metcalf(e)s; Baron Metcalfe; Governor General of Canada; The Jewel in the Crown; Account of the Appearance of Mr Peter Metcalfe After Death; Presentation to Mr W Metcalfe (of Penrith) | |
| 15 | 1985 Apr | Download PDF | A Study of Metcalfes; A Visit to the British Museum Reference Library; Knaresborough Wills; The Yorkshire Gentry; The Yorkshire Woollen & Worsted Industries; Obituaries in The Times 1951-75; Regarding Philip Metcalfe 1733-1818; Variations on a Theme; We are All Human! | |
| 14 | 1984 Dec | Download PDF | D’ye Ken William Metcalfe? Mecca Muster 1 September 1984; Metcalfe Entries in The Wensleydale Advertiser 1844-46; Series of Wilkes; The Metcalfe Family of Lancaster; Swaledale Basil Kearton; West Riding of Yorkshire Poll Book 1835; Famous Metcalf(e)s Jack Metcalfe the Bainbridge Hornblower; An Enterprising Woman | |
| 13 | 1984 Aug | Download PDF | Famous Metcalf(e)s Blind Jack of Knaresborough; Mecca Muster; Oddities; Returns of Papists in the diocese of Chester 1767 (Catholic Record Office); Non-appearance in Parish Registers | |
| 12 | 1984 Apr | Download PDF | GOON’s Conference Spofforth March 1984; Lodge Hall Ribblehead; The Metcalfes of Raisgill; Ashes and Gauber; Reedsburg Remembers; Metcalfe Index; Lancashire Wills 1621-1855 | |
| 11 | 1983 Dec | Download PDF | English Surnames: Series 1; Yorkshire West Riding; Metcalfes in 1983; Strays from Sutton on Hull Census returns 1871; Barnard Castle; Co Durham; burial registers from 11 July 1816 to 17 October 1848; Addingham Treasures ex YPRS volume 66; 25 Years in Raisgill from parish registers of Arncliffe including Halton Gill and Hubberholme; Darlington News from History of Darlington Longstaffe; Gentleman’s Magazine April 1808; Leeds 1851 Census | |
| 10 | 1983 Aug | Download PDF | A list of Yorkshire parishes having chapelries; Ingleton Fells and Chapel-le-Dale; Grinton Registers; Some Metcalfes noted in books; Cumberland to Canada | |
| 9 | 1983 Apr | Download PDF | The Siege of Raydale 1617; The Metcalfe Index; Birth Briefs; Metcalfe Wills 1700-44 | |
| 8 | 1982 Dec | Download PDF | The Clan Meeting; 4th Sept.; Intestacy; Curiosities of the Census; Newspaper Cuttings; Mecca’s Lament | |
| 7 | 1982 Aug | Download PDF | A Visit to the Genealogical Library Huddersfield; Birth Briefs | |
| 6 | 1982 Apr | Download PDF | Wills; Metcalfe Nicknames Leeds Parish Church registers | |
| 5 | 1981 Dec | Download PDF | Metcalfes in Ireland; Family Reunion; Strays; The Metcalfe Index | |
| 4 | 1981 Sep | Download PDF | An Unexpected Source of family History; A Short History of My Family; Birth Briefs of new members; The Metcalfe Society organisation | |
| 3 | 1981 Apr | Download PDF | The Metcalfe Index; North Yorkshire County Record Office; Medecalf; Information Given in Baptism Registers/Census Returns; Calendar Change 1752 | |
| 2 | 1980 Dec | Download PDF | Be a Guest at Nappa Hall; Census Returns; A Funny Story | |
| 1 | 1980 ; | Download PDF | Information Received; The Metcalfe Clan |
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