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Thanks for your contribution, Brian. Your Nixon family seems to have moved to Cheshire much later than my group, so it doesn't look like a connection. Unless your Oswald's parents moved to Barnsley from Cheshire of course.
     With it being a borders name, the Nixons seem to have moved about all over the place.
                      Best wishes and good hunting
                                               Jane

Thanks for your thoughts, mishcat. There seems to have been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing of populations between Ireland and Scotland, so it's difficult to sort out what came first!
   I am no further on with my Nixon family than I was when I began this thread, so if anyone else has any comments I would be glad to hear them.

Redkop, Manchester Central Library hold some records for the New Bailey Prison.
     You can read a bit about them here :--
http://www.manchester-family-history-research.co.uk/new_page_4.htm

   Hope this helps

                           Jane

I wish I knew, northern rose.
Perhaps we could try Dr Who?

There was a series called The Ship on BBC Prime last year, which was a documentary of the voyage of a replica of Cook's ship.
   The story of the present day crew's efforts to sail an 18th century vessel was intercut with scenes from Cook's voyage
    I didn't realise that Captain Bligh of Mutiny of the Bounty fame was there when Cook was killed by islanders.
   Another Bounty connection-
 Cook's botanist on board the Endeavor was Joseph Banks, who, as Sir Joseph Banks of Kew  commissioned the Bounty voyage to take breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies