Dear Friends, Old (Not as in age, but time :-)) I thought I would just let you know that I have been quiet over the last 4 weeks due to illness, I am not still 100% back to my old self yet, but hope to be soon, and I feel I am getting better each day. To the newbies in our group, is has been wonderful that some of you have jumped in :-)) and introduced yourselves and told us about your Barraclough ancestors. My name is Kim Pasquill and I live in the state of Victoria in Australia, for anyone with an Aussie map we are down south. A few years ago with the help of another Barraclough researcher who was also doing his own One Name Study, I decided that I would also have a go at doing a Study of the surname Barraclough and it's variants. Since then myself and other friends in our Barraclough group have been transcribing any Barraclough entries from various source material, e.g.. Parish Registers, Census Returns, Directories etc.. from Yorkshire and the rest of the world. I have been putting all this information into a Database and have around 5000 entries so far. The purpose was to help and try and make it a bit easier for other Barraclough researchers to find their ancestors. My own Barraclough's came from Wibsey in Bradford, West Yorkshire and lived in such places at Wibsey, Great and Little Horton, Burley in Leeds, Leeds it self and finally in Otley. Then my branch emigrated to Geelong, in Victoria, Australia. I also have a copy of all the Barraclough entries from the IGI (international genealogical index) I will be contacting all the newbies who have introduced themselves over the last 4 weeks and will check though all my source material and pass on any information I have pertaining to your Barraclough's. Welcome to our Barraclough group, and may we all be able to help each other find more of our Barraclough/Barrowclough ancestors. Best Wishes 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