Dear Jeff, I have been having a look at Michael & Dorothy Barraclough and agree with all the children you have to them. But I have another 2 entries, but I'm not sure it they do belong or not. The reason is that there doesn't seem to be to many Michael Barraclough's of that time period, and wondered if they might have lived in Batley for a time. There 2 entries. Alvery Barraclough bp: 6/9/1617 Alice Barraclough bp: 1010/1619 ? that would fill the gap and make only one marriage. What do you think ? if not they there must have been another Michael of that time period we don't know about yet :-) And the saga continues :-) Also we still don't know for sure if the Abraham of the Eccleshill lot, is the same Abraham son of Michael, I tend to think so, but can't be sure yet. Cheers Kim

Hi Kim, Sorry, I can't help you on that one. I have come to the conclusion that almost anything is possible. There were certainly plenty of baptisms, marriages and burials that were not recorded or have not survived. Evidence of the existence of these mysterious people can be found in Wills, Deeds and Manor Court Rolls. It would be neat if Abraham of Eccleshill was Michael's son, but unfortunately the records for Bradford are so poor for this period that it is also quite likely that some other Barraclough family moved to Wibsey and/or moved directly to Eccleshill before 1600. I seem to remember that there was some property in Northowram in connection with one of the Abraham Wills and there were certainly Barraclough's in Northowram before 1600, I have evidence of at least four families. My theory would be that they moved from Northowram to Eccleshill. Jeff. -----Original Message----- From: Kim Pasquill [mailto:kmp789@net2000.com.au] Sent: 18 May 2004 10:24 To: BARRACLOUGH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Michael & Dorothy Barraclough Dear Jeff, I have been having a look at Michael & Dorothy Barraclough and agree with all the children you have to them. But I have another 2 entries, but I'm not sure it they do belong or not. The reason is that there doesn't seem to be to many Michael Barraclough's of that time period, and wondered if they might have lived in Batley for a time. There 2 entries. Alvery Barraclough bp: 6/9/1617 Alice Barraclough bp: 1010/1619 ? that would fill the gap and make only one marriage. What do you think ? if not they there must have been another Michael of that time period we don't know about yet :-) And the saga continues :-) Also we still don't know for sure if the Abraham of the Eccleshill lot, is the same Abraham son of Michael, I tend to think so, but can't be sure yet. Cheers Kim ______________________________