This your boy? BARRACLOUGH, Thomas Convict No 5730 Ship Name Palmerston Ship Arrival Date 11 Feb 1861 Birth Date 1835 Deceased 25 Feb 1866 Place of Death accidentally killed Marital Status Mar 2 chn Occupation collier Literacy illit Religion C/E Sentence Place York Sentence Province York Sentence Country England Court Assizes Length of Sentence 20yrs Crime robbery with violence Ticket of Leave Date 4 Jul 1863 Known Areas Perth, Champion Bay Comments Labourer, miner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Sutcliffe" <jeff.sutcliffe@btinternet.com> To: <BARRACLOUGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 6:49 PM Subject: [BARRACLOUGH] RE: Thomas BARRACLOUGH--Clayton West > Greetings Derek, > > I seem to be getting that feeing of de ja vue. > The first Thomas I found did seem to fit the bill best. > Have you tried a bit of lateral thinking? It could be that Thomas was > recorded in two places in 1851. If he was living in Bradford but on the > census night he was visiting relatives back in Clayton West (or vice > versa). > Was your Thomas a Joiner or some other trade that a joiner might turn to? > Have you checked with the 1861 Census for Clayton West? If he was still in > Clayton West in 1861, then my hypothesis is wrong. If he wasn't, then > where > was he. > The reason why I write again is that there were so few Barraclough > families > in the Denby area. Only two? Both families contained Thomas's of a similar > age. Coincidence or cousins perhaps? Was there a third. > Obviously it's possible. He may have been on the 1841 Census and I missed > him, or he may have been overlooked. The Census was not complete. > As for third time lucky? Sorry, but I would have to spread the net too far > and I don't have any indexes to the 1841 Census. > Good luck. > > 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: Derek ofShelf [mailto:DerekofShelf1@activemail.co.uk] > Sent: 01 December 2005 17:25 > To: jeff.sutcliffe@btinternet.com > Subject: Thomas BARRACLOUGH--Clayton West > > Greetings---again,Jeff, > Oh dear ! Sorry,Jeff,that Thomas was also still back in High Hoyland with > wife and a few more little sprogs on the 1851 census. > Third time lucky ? > Thanks for all your endeavour------Derek. > > > > ==== BARRACLOUGH Mailing List ==== > For a list of other Rootsweb Mailing Lists world-wide: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/ > >