The Sutcliffe/Barrett/Hemingway/Laycock members included in this family tree are old  Yorkshire families who lived, worked and died in their respective communities, and  with the odd exception, never ventured far from their homes.  This changed around the  time of the First World War when the odd family member moved maybe 20 miles away from  base camp and met and married a spouse from a new area.  This is particular true of  my parents, Fred Sutcliffe and Elizabeth Hemingway.   The Sutcliffe's and  Barretts were Mountain, Northowram, Queensbury people with the odd one or two  from Thornton whereas the Hemingway's who were originally from Halifax, moved  to Boldshay Hall in Bradford Moor in the 16th century eventually settling in  the Calverley area, probably as a result of their friendship with Sir William  Calverley.  Their lives seemed to  revolved around St. Wilfred's Parish  Church.  The same is true of the Laycock's who originated from the village of  Laycock in Yorkshire and who for centuries lived and worked in Kildwick  and surroundig area. One ancester, John Laycock was a renowned Organ Maker and  his church organs were sent as far away as Wick in Scotland and to Holland.   Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire also had one of John Laycock,s church organs. The Barretts were incorporated with the Sutcliffe's as my paternal grandmother  was a Barrett.  I knew a little of the Hemingway's,only  my grandfather Tom  and therefore researching this side of the family has been most rewarding.  I  have discovered a great deal about them and their families. They were Dairy  Farmers, milk dealers and clothiers (home weavers) and owned land on the  Calverley/Bradford borders known as Woodhall Hills.  I walked these hills many  times as a child without knowing of the association with my mother's  family.The Laycocks were my maternal grandmother's family and I have recently  learned more about them via an unknown cousin. I was brought up with the  history of Sutcliffe's who were mainly miners of one sort and another with the  occasional farmer,  even  a female publican and therefore it was just a matter  of collating the documentary evidence held by my elder sister Molly.   For  some reason Sutcliffe records have been kept in tact whereas there is very little  documentary or even photographic evidence of the Hemingway's or until recently  the Laycocks. Of course, as with all four trees there are many, many branches  and I have only been able, so far, to concentrate of the main ones. I have, however,  met many relations I did not know I had and we have shared much information. This has  been one of the joys of tracing my ancestry.  I hope you enjoy meeting my ancestors as  I am sure they would have been happy to meet you!!