Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share some really good news I received today. Our good friend Mary Berthold did a lookup for me in the 1851 census for Leeds and found my own ggg grandfather William Barraclough. The entry showed that he employed 361 hands, and that he was a Stuff Manufacturer. His address was Gloucester Street Hunslet. Well with this info, I sent an email of to Yorksgen asking if anyone lived in the area, as I could not find Gloucester Street on my modern Leeds map. Although I do have a copy of a map that showed where my William's mill was situated in the 1850's and the street running beside the mill was Gloucester Street. Anyway I received an email from a gentleman on Yorksgen who has sent me a map which was current in the 1970's showing Gloucester Street, was still there then. The next wonderful news I received today was from the Leeds City Council Photographic Archivist, replying to my email asking his they had any photographs of Hope Mill or Gloucester Street, Hunslet. The answer I received made me ecstatic :-)) He told me that the 1849/50 Trade Directory of Leeds shows: The firm of Dickinson and Barraclough at Gloucester Street, Hunslet. With the main entry reading Jonathan Dickinson and William Barraclough, Stuff Manufacturers. So at long last we now know the name of William's company, I now only have to work out who Jonathan Dickinson was (Anyone want to claim him :-)) So Mary, a HUGE HUG, because if you had not found my William living in Gloucester Street, I would still be sitting here wondering how I was going to find out the name of his company. So you see folks, you all help me as much as I help you. And I have a saying that what goes around comes around. It sure did for me today :-)) I will send another listing of Parish Registers to you all tomorrow. Bye for now, from a very excited Kim Pasquill Victoria-AUST Email: [email protected] Barraclough Surname Study: http://users.net2000.com.au/~football/index.html ICQ Number: 30110913 Researching: Worldwide - BARRACLOUGH and variant's WRY - TAYLOR,BATEMAN,POLLARD