Details of some of the district’s most famous sons and daughters can be accessed via the internet as part of a new online archive. More than eight million Yorkshire parish records, spanning almost 500 years, have been digitised by family history website Ancestry.co.uk and the West Yorkshire Archive Service and are available online from today. The records detail baptisms, marriages and burials which took place in hundreds of West Yorkshire parishes between 1538 and 1980. They include the baptisms of Charlotte Bronte and her siblings, who were born in the parish of Thornton between 1816 and 1820. The famous author’s burial record is also listed following her premature death

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