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I'm seeking information on the BARKER family who were living at 57 Brinkman Street, Barnsley in 1911. I have traced the family backwards through time but wonder what happened to the 7 surviving children?

The names and year of birth registrations are:

Thomas b 1872
William b 1883
John b 1885
Joe b 1890 (the GRO index has him as Joah)
Sarah Ann b 1876
Lucy b 1879
Elizabeth b 1885 (she married a Thomas Gill and there were children)


the other four children died in infancy

Any information as to descendants would be gratefully received.

Anthony Bowron married Mary MacDonald in Romaldkirk 23 August 1817. Anthony was a blacksmith.

I have found them on the 1841 to 1861 census returns (Anthony died in 1868), I then have Mary living with a niece (actually niece by marriage) on the 1871 census. Mary died in 1879.

Anthony and Mary had at least 4 children, William, Ann, Jane and Anthony. If Mary is the Mary I think she is there was also a child born before the marriage, George MacDonald born 1810.

George is my direct ancestor but we don't know who his father is. There are no bastardy records that mention Mary or George or Anthony although the bastardy records do appear to be good. All I can conclude is that no complaint was made about the father of the child or that the child's father acknowledged his son and paid maintenance.

My own father has had a DNA test done which has come back with a very unusual male line  haplotype - well that is what the testing company say.

I'd really like to find a male line descendant of Anthony Bowron who either knows his male haplotype or would be willing to have it sequenced. That way we would have more idea about George's paternity!

I also wonder just how rare Dad's male line haplotype actually is .......

Thanks. I will spend some time trying to track the family down and see if anyone knows what happened to Uncle Alexander

Thanks Hallmark. The file won't load for me as the server I am using at the moment can't cope with a file that large..... when I get home i will see if I can look then.

I've found a possible death for Arthur and one for his wife Jane [edit - you have found them as well! I will order certificates when I get home, in Ireland at the moment on holiday and to do a bit of research in churchyards but drawn a blank so far] but nothing that fits for Alexander which means I can't rule out this Alexander as "ours".

Family stories say two or more of the brothers went to Canada so I was hoping someone would recognise the names and be able to help.

Arthur HARVEY was a tenant of James C Lowry and held land, plot 9 at Coolkeeghan according to Griffith's valuation of 1859.

From the parish records of Derryloran (CI) it appears that Arthur's wife was Jane and they had the following children, year of birth/baptism in brackets):

James (1837)
Ellen (1839)
William (1845)
Hamilton (1848/9)
Alexander (1852/3)
John (1855)

Does anyone have any further information about this family? I think it is the same Hamilton Harvey on the 1901 and 1911 census. He was a carpenter and lived at Loy.

I am especially interested in Alexander though.

Arthur died in 1878 age 66 according to the parish record.