Hi Everyone, Now that I have a spare minute, I just want to nominate Henry Barraclough as premier Black Sheep to the List. :) Linda Barraclough Briagolong, Victoria, Australia Listowner: BARRACLOUGH-L e-mail: [email protected] ================================================ These Henrys may all be one and the same, or there may be two Henrys. Or three Henrys. Or Heaps of Henrys. Any help in sorting them out is welcome! Henry No. 1 Born 1827 at Wibsey. Son of James Barraclough and Hannah nee Carter, elder brother of Luke, my great-grandfather. Henry No. 2 Arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the Tasman in 1849. Aged 22 years (so born c.1827), native of Wibsey. Accompanied by Mary, maiden name n.k. Selina born on voyage, died soon after arrival. (Did she get pregnant so they had to run away?) Went to work for George Smith of Melbourne. There are other Henry Barracloughs arriving in the 1850s in the assisted shipping Henry No. 3 Married Mary Ann Fletcher. There are no death registrations before this time to tell me what happened to the first Mary. I have the original certificate from the Reg Gen (signed) and it gives 24 Jan 1853 as the date. I have the birth registration for Lawford Stroud Barraclough, born to them 1 March 1857 at Rose St, Collingwood. At that stage they have Price Fletcher, 17 months and one daughter dead. Henry is a brickmaker. (so was Luke in 1853). Victorian Birth indexes give their children as: 1854 Henrietta 1855 Price Fletcher at B'darra 1857 Lawford Stroud at Collingwood 1859 Hannah at Brunswick 1861 Henry James at Castlemaine Victorian Death indexes: 1855 Henrietta 1860 Ann at Castlemaine (Hannah) Henry No. 4 Witness at the marriage of Luke Barraclough and Susannah Hignett at Ballarat in December 1855. Luke was under age at time of marriage, but no notation of who gave permission for marriage. They already had first child, born Richmond in 1854. Henry No. 5 Tried for manslaughter of Elizabeth Lillycrap at Castlemaine in April 1862. I have inquest papers. Basically was acting as "medical botanist", quack herbalist etc. It was her 12th pregnancy. He was acquitted at the second trial, the jury could nto agree at the first. There are references to his being in Castlemaine as early as October 1860. During the trial he states he was a brickmaker and learnt herbalism as an apprentice in Melbourne. This was during the time when there was much tension between herbalists and doctors, and the doctors jumped on the chance to try and get any herbalist they could charged. Henry No. 6 This family (Henry, Mary and children) appear in New Zealand "around 1860" where Henry is a doctor. Until Carolyn Johnston started this research, he was believed to have died at an unknown time in New Zealand prior to 1880. She also has record of: Henry Barraclough, herbalist, in Cyclopeadia of New Zealand (c.1900), born Victoria, came to NZ 1868, founded business in Wellington in 1881. (I suspect this is Henry James, son of Henry) When Lawford Stroud Bararclough marries, he gives his father as Henry James Barraclough, doctor. Lawford Stroud is believed to have one brother (Harry) and a sister, Hebe, born New Zealand. Photographs of this branch of the Barracloughs are uncannily like Luke's (my) branch of the Barracloughs. Henry No. 7 Died at Boggabri (end of the earth in outback New South Wales) on the Darling River in 1890. Appears there in a directory for 1881. This is in the back paddock for my family on the Darling River. He leaves everything to his housekeeper. I have the certificate. It reads: Date: 17 October 1890 Place: Merton St, Boggabri Name & Occ: Henry Barraclough, Medical Practitioner Sex & age: male, 62 years Cause of death etc: Phthisis, seven days, Dr Haynes Name of Father: Henry Barraclough (If he is mine, it should be James) Name and Maiden Name of Mother: Not known Informant: Bridget McNeil, Boggabri, Married Woman (I THINK she is the hosuekeeper who gets all his money in his will - if there was any) Born: Bradford, England How long in Aust. Colonies: 23 years (I think he lied!) Place of marriage, age, to whom: England, twenty-one years, Mary Dove Children of marriage: three girls, names unknown. Then there is Theodore Jones Bararclough, born at Boggabri in 1909. He is not mine, and I have to chase him up. What are the chances of two unrelated Barraclough families in Boggabri. Very remote! And they all keep using surnames as middle names (mine didn't) Then there is the Lewis Smith Barraclough running around outback NSW in the 1880s, son of James Barraclough of New Zealand. I think this lot will send me bald. Would anyone like to claim any of the above??? Linda Barraclough Briagolong, Victoria, Australia Listowner: BARRACLOUGH-L e-mail: [email protected]