To Kim P and the List, greetings. Thanks for the info of 27MAR99. My m-in-law, Edith Barraclough died 1997 aged 94 (her father, George, lived to 99, her brother, Tom, to 93) and they were the Bradford line, and there were many different families of Barracloughs there. My wife has their lineage in her head and on paper together with those who are not connected, and might mislead. There were at least 2 or 3 families of Barr~cloughs in and around Holmfirth, but the parish church (H. Trinity) was a chapel of ease in the early C19th, and official marriages could only be performed at Kirkburton, and Almondbury, depending I suppose, on which side of the river they lived. It was a long way to both churches from Holmfirth., to marry, and sometimes, I think that they didn't bother . Kirkburton's registers are readable, but have scant extra info, and might just be the parishes summary of the bishop's transcripts. The IGI was compiled from these, probably. Almondbury's are virtually illegible for the period, but one can make out Joseph's marriage 1823 to Mary Butterworth. (NB the IGI also found them illegible and put him down as JOH... which others thought was Joshua, but he was Joseph.) Almondbury also had the birth of his son Jonathan who went to Ballarat, who had his mother's name Butterworth (born 1month before wedding) and kept it. Joseph's granddaughter - Polly - had the family Bible, and her C20th granddaughter Dorothy was the one who kept the page of the Bible with family details, only, and who sent Jonathan's letters, steamship ticket, etc to Central Library, Camp Street, Ballarat when they mounted an exhibition, I think. Jonathan worked the goldfields, and later lived at 17 Windermere St., Ballarat. If Kim or anyone else goes to see, if the memorabilia is still filed there, we would like photocopies and would pay costs. "Australian" Jonathan Butterworth (if there are decendants in Oz, might like to note that they are really Barracloughs!) was married in Bradford in 1844, to a Nanny Metcalfe, and he emigrated some short time after that. His younger brother James Barraclough also married a Metcalf, was on the point of emigrating but cancelled it. Sometime after the family moved to Bradford, but while at Holmfirth they had houses, by the censuses, in Birch Hill and South Lane, which I have driven up, and it is very steep! Sorry, but I find Josephs, the Joshuas, the Butterworths and the Barrow-Barracloughs of 1800-1850 all of a jumble, but my wife has them clearly imprinted. Regards to all. I hope that all the Butterworths of Australia do not suddenly join the Barraclough List, but my wife would like to hear from Jonathan's descendants. There must be plenty because the couple had nearly a dozen children in tents on the goldfields!