Hi Mary Thank you for the wealth of info. My last attempt to secure a marriage license was successful,except it was for the wrong place. Hemsworth is probably correct. Looks as tho I better request BMD indexes by quarters Thank you for your help Jack -----Original Message----- From: Mary L. Berthold <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 01, 1999 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [BARRACLOUGH-L] Transcriptions >Hi John, > >I'm afraid that the materials I'm planning to transcribe would not be of >much help to you, since your wife's ancestors were not from the places I >am working with. I think you could progress in your research, though, by >consulting the Civil Registration Index for England. You can order >microfiche of each quarter-year of the Index for births, marriages, or >deaths from the Family History Center (run by the Church of the >Latter-Day Saints) in your area. This will give you enough information to >order birth, marriage, or death certificates from local register offices >or from the central office. You can get more information on this >procedure through www.genuki.org.uk. From this basic site for the UK you >can go to the Yorkshire site for more specific information. > >The certificates give information that can confirm what you have as well >as provide more. It is probably best to work backwards from George's >marriage (ordering the fiche for marriages for all the quarters of 1863 >and the first from 1864, as sometimes the registration is late): if there >are a number of George Barracloughs in the Index of Marriages, you can >look under Sarah Braithwaite; the number will match. The Index alone will >confirm the marriage and give you the place. The certificate you send for >will give the addresses of George and Sarah at the time of marriage, and >their fathers' names and occupations. Sometimes you find other family >members listed as witnesses. Once you get the addresses, you can check >census records. Since civil registration started in 1837 and not everyone >registered events in the early years, you may not find a record of >George's birth, but it is worth trying, as the certificate would confirm >his father's name and possibly give the address and mother's maiden name. >If it's not in the Civil Registration Index, you can go to the parish >records of the community (again, these can be ordered from the Family >History Center) and confirm the birth and his father's name that way. The >genuki site will give you the parishes for your locations. Denby is in >the parish of Penistone. Could Hernsworth by Hemsworth? I didn't find >Hernsworth, but Hemsworth is a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire. > >I did look in the 1841 and 1851 Sheffield census indexes to see if there >were any Barracloughs born in Denby. In the 1851 census index I found >John B., age 65, born Denby, and Martha, age 64, born Denby Dyke Side, as >well as Joseph, 40, Isaac, 27, and Hannah, age 22, born Penistone. All >these people were probably living in the same house: the volume number is >2336 and the folio 74B for all of them. Possibly these people were >related to your family, but I would start, as I said, with the names you >have, and trace them back; perhaps you will come across the Sheffield >bunch as cousins or siblings along the way. > >Hope this has helped. Forgive me if I have told you things you already >know. > >Happy hunting. > >Mary > > >On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:47:51 -0700 "John Curley" <[email protected]> >writes: >>Dear Mary: My wife Mary Alice Wigglesworths grandfather married Annie >>Barraclough.01 May 1886,Dist of Hernsworth. Annies father Geo >>Barraclough,born 10 Sept 1837 in Denby,Yorkshire,married Sarah Ann >>Braithwaite,1863 in Yorkshire,Have no marriage confirmation. Georges >>father >>is James B,have no confirmation. >>Would appreciate any info and will reimburse for any costs involved. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Mary L. Berthold <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >>Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 10:41 AM >>Subject: [BARRACLOUGH-L] Transcriptions >> >> >>>Hi Barraclough Researchers, >>> >>>In response to Kim's request that we let everyone know what we're >>>transcribing, I'm planning to transcribe Barraclough entries from the >>>following: >>> >>>(1) Yorkshire Parish Register Society, Halifax Parish Registers: >>Baptisms >>>1538-1593 (Vol. 37); Marriages and Burials 1538-1593 (Vol. 45). >>> >>>(2) Film# 0990526: Birstall Parish Registers: Bap, Mar, Bur >>1767-1813, >>>Bap 1814. >>> >>>(3) Film# 0990527: Bap, Mar, Bur 1814-1820, 1822. >>> >>>It's likely to take me a while to do these, so in the meantime if you >>>want a look-up, just let me know (the last two are still on order). I >>>also have Xeroxes of some others I can check for you and will >>eventually >>>transcribe: Barracloughs from the 1841 (film 1544771) and 1851(Film >>>1239271) census indexes for Sheffield, and (I think) from 1884 and >>1896 >>>White's Directory of Sheffield (Film 1595420). >>> >>>Mary >>>Wisconsin, USA >>> >>>___________________________________________________________________ >>>You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >>>Get completely free e-mail from Juno at >>http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >>>or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] >>> >>> >>>==== BARRACLOUGH Mailing List ==== >>>Barracloughs often meet at Rootsweb on Yorksgen and the West Riding >>[Yorkshire] List. 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