The Dissolution Rent Roll for Bolton Abbey in 1539 shows John and Robert Pettye at Hazlewood and William and Isabel Pettye at Halton. Members of the Petyt family were farming at Bolton Abbey until the 1950s. In the main the family were engaged in farming and other rural occupations until the Industrial Revolution when they spread into the neighbouring towns such as Leeds and Bradford. Over the centuries a few of them have made their mark in the wider world but generally they were content to remain in their native Yorkshire. All rights reserved.
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