The Pursgloves of Tankersley - [TANK]

This village is in the Meteropolitan Borough of Barnsley.  The parish church is dedicated to St Peter.  The parish also includes the village of Pilley.

Tancheresleia - "Tanchere's meadow" - was a Lordship following the Norman conquest  The Meiton family owned the land and eventually assumed the family name 'de Tankersley'.

 

William Purslove [1459] married Elizabeth Sampson on 28/7/1762

 

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