Hey, David

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Name (Latin)
Hey, David
Date of birth
1938-07-18
Date of death
2016-02-14
Field of activity
Genealogy
Local history
Occupation
Genealogists
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 10970802
Wikidata: Q23010436
Library of congress: n 81032881
Sources of Information
  • Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 25, 2016(David Hey, local and family historian, born 18 July 1938 in the hamlet of Catshaw, west of Penistone; died 14 February 2016; gained an MA (1967) and PhD (1971) at Leicester University, and spent four years as a research fellow at Leicester; in 1974 he was able to return to his native territory when Sheffield University offered him a post as a lecturer in its department of extramural studies; Sheffield University recognised his talents with a chair in 1992, and made him dean of his faculty in 1994)
  • The rural metalworkers of the Sheffield region, 1972.
  • Yorkshire from AD 1000, 1986:CIP t.p. (David Hey) data sheet (b. 7-18-38)
  • A monastic community in local society : the Beauchief Abbey Cartulary, 2011:t.p. (David Hey) dust jkt. (David Hey; Emeritus Professor of Local and Family History in the University of Sheffield, England; president of the British Association for Local History)

Wikipedia description:

David G. Hey (18 July 1938 – 14 February 2016) was an English historian, and was an authority on surnames and the local history of Yorkshire. Hey was the president of the British Association for Local History, and was a published author of several books on local history and the derivation of surnames.

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