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Henry Barraclough is a black sheep who I am trying to pin down. These people may all
be one and the same, or there may be two Henrys.
Henry No. 1
Born 1827 at Wibsey. Son of James Barraclough and Hannah nee Carter, elder brother
of Luke, my great-grandfather.
Henry No. 2
Arrived at Melbourne on the Tasman in 1849. Aged 22 years (so born c.1827), native
of Wibsey. Accompanied by Mary (whose maiden name may have been Dove). Selina
born on voyage. (Did she get pregnant so they had to run away?) Went to work for
George Smith of Melbourne. There are other Henry Barracloughs arriving in the 1850s
in the assisted shipping
Henry No. 3
Married Mary Ann Fletcher. I have the original certificate from the Reg Gen (signed)
and it gives 24 Jan 1853 as the date. I have the birth registration for Lawford Stroud
Barraclough, born to them 1 March 1857 at Rose St, Collingwood. At that stage they
have Price Fletcher, 17 months and one daughter dead. Henry is a brickmaker. (so was
Luke in 1853).
Victorian Birth indexes give:
1854 Henrietta
1855 Price Fletcher at B'darra
1857 Lawford Stroud at Collingwood
1859 Hannah at Brunswick
1861 Henry James at Castlemaine
Victorian Death indexes:
1855 Henrietta
1860 Ann at Castlemaine (Hannah)
This family (Henry, Mary and children) appear in New Zealand "around 1860" where
Henry is a doctor. Until Carolyn Johnston started this research, he was believed to
have died at an unknown time in New Zealand prior to 1880.
She also has record of:
Henry Barraclough, herbalist, in Cyclopeadia of New Zealand (c.1900), born Victoria,
came to NZ 1868, founded business in Wellington in 1881. (I suspect this is Henry
James, son of Henry)
When Lawford Stroud Bararclough marries, he gives his father as Henry James
Barraclough, doctor.
Lawford Stroud is believed to have one brother (Harry) and a sister, Hebe, born New
Zealand.
Photographs of this branch of the Barracloughs are uncannily like Luke's (my) branch
of the Barracloughs.
Henry No. 4
Witness at the marriage of Luke Barraclough and Susannah Hignett at Ballarat in
December 1855. Luke was under age at time of marriage, but no notation of who gave
permission for marriage. They already had first child, born Richmond in 1854.
Henry No. 5
Tried for manslaughter of Elizabeth Lillycrap at Castlemaine in April 1862. I have
inquest papers. Basically was acting as "medical botanist", quack herbalist etc. It was
her 12th pregnancy. He was acquitted at trial. There are references to his being in
Castlemaine as early as October 1860. During the trial he states he was a brickmaker
and learnt herbalism as an apprentice in Melbourne.
Henry No 6.
Died at Boggabri on the Darling River in 1890. Appears there in a directory for 1881.
This is in the back paddock for my family on the Darling River. He leaves everything
to his housekeeper.
I have the certificate. It reads:
Date: 17 October 1890
Place: Merton St, Boggabri
Name & Occ: Henry Barraclough, Medical Practitioner
Sex & age: male, 62 years
Cause of death etc: Phthisis, seven days, Dr Haynes
Name of Father: Henry Barraclough (If he is mine, it should be James)
Name and Maiden Name of Mother: Not known
Informant: Bridget McNeil, Boggabri, Married Woman (I THINK she is the
hosuekeeper who gets all his money in his will - if there was any)
Born: Bradford, England
How long in Aust. Colonies: 23 years (I think he lied!)
Place of marriage, age, to whom: England, twenty-one years, Mary Dove
Children of marriage: three girls, names unknown.
Then there is Theodore Jones Bararclough, born at Boggabri in 1909. He is not mine,
and I have to chase him up. What are the chances of two unrelated Barraclough
families in Boggabri. Very remote! And they all keep using surnames as middle names
(mine didn't)
Then there is the Lewis Smith Barraclough running around outback NSW in the 1880s,
son of James Barraclough of New Zealand.
I think this lot will send me bald. Would anyone like to claim any of the above???
Linda
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