Resources
Settle Headstones
Harold Foxcroft's "Settle Church Graveyard, Alphabetical List of Burials, 1838 to 2000", was an established reference on Settle's burial registers but it seems to have been superceded by Settle U3A and Sarah Lister's work and also the church's burial records being online (see below).
Holy Ascension Settle's burial records from 1839 to date are available online https://hagryd.uk/, along with Giggleswick burial records from 1800, which include several Hargers.
For details of Settle headstones relating to Hargers, please see headstones
"Stories from the Graveyard"
In 2018, Settle U3A Family History Group began a project working with Settle church of creating a graveyard plan and transcribing the gravestones for posterity, supported by Stories in Stone
- Facebook Settle Graveyard Project;
- Information on the resulting publication 'Curious Tales from the Ancient Graveyard' (ISBN: 9781838128227) by Sarah Lister may be found at https://www.ydmt.org/shop
- Information on the project is available at: found at: https://www.dalescommunityarchives.org.uk/
- Research from the project on the Hargers can be found at: at: https://www.dalescommunityarchives.org.uk/
- Information on ancestry.com 'Old Settle' (starting with Joseph Harger, born 1733): https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ or https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/ (requires a login on ancestry.com)
Giggleswick Headstones
Nigel Mussett produced two excellent volumes in 2015 and an accompanying CD (some of the data is available online at https://hagryd.uk/)
- "Giggleswick Parish Registers 1800-1999" (ed 2015) ISBN 9780907089100 (Hardback), ISBN 9780907089117 (Paper) (information: extract 4 pages, pdf, 0.3Mb)
- "Memorials and Inscriptions At St Alkelda's Church Giggleswick 1585 - 2011" (various editions) ISBN 9780907089094 (information: extract 4 pages, pdf, 0.6Mb)
- CD: Parish Registers (ed 2015): ISBN 9780907089124 (information: mussett_CD_information.jpg, 2Mb)
The Yorkshire Archaeological Society (https://www.yas.org.uk/) have produced transcriptions of the Giggleswick church Registers
- Vol 1 1558-1669 (issued 1984; ed RW Hoyle) (no Harger or Hagger)
- Vol 2 1669-1769 (issued 1986; ed RW Hoyle) (Hagger, see Harger: several)
- Vol 3 1770-1837 (issued 2008; ed T Ian Roberts) ISBN 9781903564110 (many Hargers)
Useful websites
There is a One name study of Armistead at https://armistead.one-name.net/; daughters of William Harger and Mary Holden, sisters Ellen (b. 1816) and Maria (b. 1823) married respectively brothers John Armistead (marr 1841), and William Armistead (m. 1848)
Nick Delves' website contains much family history, including Harger material: http://nickdelves.co.uk/gen_harger.htm; Nick is a descendant of Joseph Harger and Ellen Holden marr 1805.
In 2004, the Museum in Settle had an exhibition ('The Family Business in North Craven: a Century of Service') about the history of Settle and area businesses which included the Harger businesses (see http://ncbpt.org.uk/folly/exhibitions/exhibitions_2004/), including a small booklet (available as a PDF on the website).