Acknowledgements

I am especially grateful to Peter J Scholes of Leeds for hosting this monograph on the Scholes Family Website and to Fred Scholes for creating an ancestral database. In addition, I thank Cathy Chapman of Bradford for information on the village of Scholes in Cleckheaton, Stafford Scholes of Co. Durham, and the late Edward Skoyles; and in the USA Jaira Scoles Hill of Oregon and Ellen Kotzin of New York State. Also to the following:

Howard Smith, The Barwick Historical Society

http://www.hjsmith.clara.co.uk/bhs.htm

Peter Middleton of the Huddersfield & District Family History Society   http://www.hdfhs.org.uk

Des Scholes

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~dscholes/stamfordindex.htm

Harry J F Wykes, author of the ‘UK Distribution Map’ software

http://www.wykes.org/dist

Images from the www.old-maps.co.uk service are reproduced with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd. and Ordnance Survey.

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Suggestions for new material would be of great help to improve and extend its scope for the interests of the Scholes community world-wide. Stories about early Scholes families or prominent individuals would be especially welcome.

Contributions to Fred Scholes’ Ancestral Database should include source references.

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