Hi Everyone: It has been such a long time since I have been in touch but I do have some information I would like to share, hoping that it will be of use to someone. In a book entitled "Growing up with Barnardos"" by Alan Moore which was published in the 1990s, there is a reference to Dorothy Barraclough. Dorothy was born in Leeds in 1918. Her father, whose Christian name is not given, went to serve in WWI, and returned blind and crippled. There is no mention of her mother. Dorothy was raised by her Grandmother until the age of 9 in Scarborough, Yorkshire. Although the book does not state it, I would assume that when her Grandmother died Dorothy was sent to the Barnardo Home for Boys and Girls in Scarborough and her father was put in a poor house. In 1932 she went to Australia; the Ashield Hostel then to Singleton. In 1938 Dorothy married Aubrey Walsh. It is also mentioned in the book that Dorothy had a brother George who was taken somewhere and she never did know. If anyone is interested in a copy of the excerpt, I will happily scan it and send it on. This is a very small contribution for all the hard work done by everyone else who is working away tirelessly. I still am not able to get back to my genealogy the way I would like but hopefully in the New Year. Best wishes to everyone, Susan Eddy, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada