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    1. [BARRACLOUGH-L] Marie Barraclough
    2. Mara du Toit
    3. I am hoping someone (or several someones) can assist with matching my old photographs to people! I live in South Africa and am cataloguing all my family photographs, which include the Wilman family from Bradford. My great-great-grandfather, Herbert Wilman, son of Squire Wilman, was born in Bradford on 4 January 1834. I don't know if he had brothers. He had several sisters, but I don't know all their names, or which one married whom. I do know of Mary Jane Wilman, born about 1829, and Hannah Wilman, born about 1836. One photograph taken in Bradford shows a handsome woman, probably in her 30s, with a neat-bearded man a bit older, and is labelled "Barraclough, [Herbert Wilman's] sister & husband". Which Miss Wilman married which Mr Barraclough? Then I have another photograph taken in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1800s or early 1900s, of a lovely young woman labelled "Marie Barraclough, Opera Singer". I have found a reference to a Sydney Barraclough - could the opera singer possibly be his daughter?: "British Musical Theatre, by Kurt Gänzl: An even more successful piece of a similar kind [to In Town at the Gaiety] ... at the Shaftesbury on 13 April 1893 Morocco Bound, billed as a musical farce, was produced... Violet Cameron had a couple of ballads, and Sydney Barraclough as her tenor lover sang of "A High Old Time" and more chastely "Come, My Own" and "Light of Love". At the Lyric, Floradora ran for 17 months in 1899... [achieving] highest box office figures. One of the show's first alterations ... baritone Melville Stewart ... was dropped in favour of Sydney Barraclough." Other photographs and letters are of two ladies, elderly in the 1940s and 1950s, of two sisters who lived in Passaic, New Jersey. Marie L Barraclough married a Mr Hird, and E Theresa Barraclough married a Mr Pickles. If anyone has any information which would help me trace the family connections, I'd be most grateful. And if any of the named people are any reader's ancestors, I'd be happy to pass on scanned images of the photographs. Thank you, Mara du Toit

    07/15/1999 05:32:34