Hello to all on the group - and a happy new year, century and millenium ! Together with several other group members around the world I am interested in what I have called the Barraclough Dynasty of Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire started in the early 1800's by James Barraclough who had been born on 7.12.1805 in Wakefield and plied the Ouse and Humber in sloops and keel boats - probably moving coal. James settled in Barton and married a local woman (as probably did his brother Joshua - but he may have been lost at sea or just deserted his wife (name n/k)). James had a large family and I (with many many others am a direct descendant. I was born in Barton and my mother was a Barraclough. Any information on the Barton connection is very welcome, but in particular I am very very keen to find out about Joshua who was James' father. I know he was married in Harewood to Elisabeth Horner on 25.6.1798 and that they had sons James (1805), Martha (1808), Joshua (1810), Josiah (1811), John (1816) and Mary 1813). I also know that Joshua's wife died in 1817 and that he was with his son James in Barton in 1841(aged 75). I can find no record of him in 1851 census and have not yet found any record of his death. I am there- fore trying to find any reference to a Joshua Barraclough born circa 1766, almost certainly from Yorkshire and who died between 1841 and 1851. I and a good few others would welcome any suggestions. Cheers - as we say in England..... Ted Keal.