Hi Julie, We appear to have common ancestors in Francis (1685) and Mary Pollard. After that I have John and Mary Wilson and Stephen and Mary Bateman nee Fearnley. Francis' parents were Abraham and Susannah Walker, married in 1679. I haven't been able to make the link further back yet, but I am fairly confident that Abraham's father was Jonas Barraclough, the youngest son of Abraham and his third wife. There was a Richard who married Alice Hoyle in 1566. Alice became a widow and left a Will in 1605. I have now included that family group on my web site, but I don't have any links for it. The Will transcript is also there. I am also aware of Abraham and Jane Awdrey (actually Awbrey). They married in 1603 and lived in Sowerby, where Jane died in childbirth in 1606. The Abraham who moved to Fewston had at least three wives. I am not aware of Agnes Riley but there was a marriage in 1604 between Abraham Barraclough and Agnes Rayner, which was probably the Abraham who moved to Fewston's first marriage. It was a marriage by Licence, which could be an indicator of the move from one parish to another. His eldest child Mary was baptised in Fewston in 1604. I have not disproved or proved any research carried out by June Benn. My research is completely separate to June Benn's as are my conclusions. Obviously there is only one right answer, but certainty is difficult. I am confident in my conclusions as they are backed up by evidence and I have carried out my own research. To be certain there are a lot of early wills, which still need to be examined. Jeff Sutcliffe http://www.btinternet.com/~jeff.sutcliffe Researching Ambler, Baker, Barraclough, Bates, Booth, Broadbent, Brook, Brown, Chadwick, Collins, Coning, Crowther, Fearnley, Hanson, Hardcastle, Hartas, Harwood, Holmes, Metcalf, Nowell, Oliver, Pennington, Pollard, Radcliffe, Roebuck, Routh, Smith, Sugden, Sutcliffe, Tordoff, Ventress, Walker, Whitaker, Whiteley, Wilkinson, Wilson All of the Yorkshire Area. -----Original Message----- From: ellis.spj [mailto:ellis.spj@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: 10 May 2004 23:02 To: BARRACLOUGH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BARRACLOUGH] Barraclough's 1540 to 1800 Hi Jeff, wow what a lot of info in one go, it has confused me a bit as I have only just got to grips with the research of June Benn and this now confuses me even more! I have a direct link back to Francis(1685) who married Mary Pollard in1714. but I was under the impression that Richard 1546 had married alike hoyle, has this now been disproved? their son Abraham I believe married a Jane Awdrey and then an Agnes riley, but neither of these names appear in your tree. anyway from Francis and mary i have a Stephen who married Hannah longbottom. they had john who married ann. brooks. they had Thomas who married mary harker they had Henry brook who married alice ann platts they had john who married Lucy bottomley they had Herbert who married Annie Barrett they had Michael who is my father. any help with the confusing bits will be gratefully accepted. well done on the research a sterling job!!! Julie ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Sutcliffe <Jeff.Sutcliffe@btinternet.com> To: <BARRACLOUGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 1:17 PM Subject: [BARRACLOUGH] Barraclough's 1540 to 1800 > > > > > > > > ==== BARRACLOUGH Mailing List ==== > For a list of other Rootsweb Mailing Lists world-wide: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/ > ______________________________

Dear Jeff & All, It appears there was a marrige licence for Abraham Barraclough. It says he may marry "Either in Halifax or Hearshead" a woman named Agnes Rayner of Hartshead. But June had not yet found the actual marriage. > Abraham Barraclough and Agnes Rayner, which was probably the Abraham who > moved to Fewston's first marriage. It was a marriage by Licence, which could > be an indicator of the move from one parish to another. His eldest child > Mary was baptised in Fewston in 1604. > I have not disproved or proved any research carried out by June Benn. My > research is completely separate to June Benn's as are my conclusions. > Obviously there is only one right answer, but certainty is difficult. I am > confident in my conclusions as they are backed up by evidence and I have > carried out my own research. To be certain there are a lot of early wills, > which still need to be examined. > > Jeff Sutcliffe As to which is the right marriages for Abraham, is still debatable, amd we might never really know for sure. Simply because of the lack of extra source material. And as Jeff has stated, there are still a lot of will's that will need to be looked at (and that is costly, in terms of dollars and pounds) for the time period involved. These may through up a few clues, but at the end of it all, we still might just be left with "We think so and so married so and so". But we always keep our options open, and if we just stumble on a bit of source material that confirms information we have, we go with it. The more source material we collect to prove or disprove our facts the better. I would like to publicly thank both Jeff and Derek, for the enormous amount of work they both do on our particular Barraclough family tree. Not to mention the research carried out by June. Both Derek and Jeff, spend as much time on it as I do, if not more. And I think it will always be a work in progress. Cheers Kim