The Barrowcliffe/Dutton Genealogy Page

Part of the Jackson Family History

Updated 18 May 2008

Ernest Barrowcliffe = Winifred Dutton

My husband, Barry Jackson's Maternal Grandparents

We possess a very flimsy birth certificate printed on flimsy brown paper for Ernest Barrowcliffe, born Ilkeston, 1884 -

There appears to be no pre-printed information whatsoever on this paper - only the details repeated above - it looks to have worn off over time as very faint lines can just be seen.  David Gretton, a member of the Rootsweb Derbygen mailing list informed me that  Grass Lane, Ilkeston, shown on the above certificate was later renamed Norman Street.  See pictures, further down this page.

The above birth certificate revealed another generation -

Francis Barrowcliffe = Mary Moon

Barry's Great Grandparents

Winifred's birth certificate wasn't with Barry's parent's papers but I have found her details in the 1837 On Line and ordered it from the GRO.  This has arrived and here are the details:

Note the name of Winifred's mother - Christiana Wilkinson.

Pictures of Gladstone Street, Ilkeston can be seen further down the page.

We also possess Ernest and Winifred's Marriage Certificate:-

* Note - that the registrar has mixed up their details - Ernest's address and father are shown alongside Winifred's name and vice-versa.  Pictures of the two localities - Albion Place and Bright Street and of St Mary's Church can be seen further down the page.

The wedding certificate of Ernest and Winifred supplied me with the name of  Barry's other Great Grandfather and close relatives informed me of the full name of his Great Grandmother -

Thomas Dutton = Christiana Wilkinson Hornsey

Barry's Great Grandparents

The Hornsey/Wilkinson family can be found by following this link  covering Census details from the Caistor area of Lincolnshire and Christiana's birth certificate information.

Ernest and Winifred Barrowcliffe had three children -

* Barry's Mother

Hilda's birth certificate was another flimsy sheet of paper -

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We also possessed the death certificates for Barry's grandparents - Ernest Barrowcliffe died first in 1959:

and Winifred Barrowcliffe died in 1969:

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On 26 October 2004, Barry, his cousin, Paul Barrowcliffe and I visited Ilkeston to try to find where Ernest and Winifred used to live.  We first of all called at the local studies section of Ilkeston Library and bought two old maps detailing the streets as they were in the early 1900s.  Shown below are some of the photographs we took on the way to 2 Gordon Street, Ilkeston where Hilda Barrowcliffe, Barry's mother was born.  Please click on each thumbnail to see an enlarged version of each picture, a description of which appears below.  Use the "Back" button to return to this page.

Pictures one and two - St Mary's Church.  The church where Winifred Dutton and Ernest Barrowcliffe were married.

Picture three  - Bath Street, Ilkeston, just below St Mary's Church.  The relatives talked at length about Bath Street, it must have been an important thoroughfare in those days.

Picture four - Top of Gordon Street, Ilkeston where the family lived when Hilda Barrowcliffe was born.

Picture five - Number 2, Gordon Street, Ilkeston as it is today.  Modernised with double glazed door and windows, and presumably pebble-dashed by the later owners of the property.

Picture six - Lower down Gordon Street, Ilkeston as it is today.  Still with modernised with double glazed door but more like how No 2 would have looked in the early 1900s.

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Sending for Francis Barrowcliffe's birth certificate revealed another unknown family name 'Hallam': 

Our Barrowcliffe family tree can be accessed at the following website:

http://www.barrowcliffe.net/ 'our' Barrowcliffes can be found on Tree No. 21 named 'Francis Barrowcliffe'.  I have posted some additions which are not yet online.

This is a very useful site for the Barrowcliffe name, but not many trees show the localities and the forum has been ruined by persistent spammers with their disgusting emails.

1851 Census

When I began researching Barry's family history, this Census entry was kindly sent to me by Neil Bowers after an enquiry I made on the Rootsweb.com site specifically for the DerbyGen mailing list -

Folio 275, Schedule 132, pg 33/34 shows the Hallam family living on Nottingham Road, Ilkeston

Here's Francis and Mary's Wedding Certificate and further down the page is the birth certificate of their daughter, Martha born "Nineteenth of July 1843" only 10 days after the wedding!  The spelling of their surname on the birth certificate, though,  was shown as "Horridge".  There appears to be an error in their fathers' occupations in that they have been transposed i.e. Samuel Hallam was the Lace maker and Jonathan Orrige the Brick maker -

Here's the respective parents in the 1841 and 1851 Census reinforcing the theory that the father's occupation shown on the certificate were mixed up - Mary's father being the Brickmaker and Francis's father was the lace maker (1851):

This shows Francis Hallam on the 1841 Census living with his mother and father in Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire:

I need to find out what a "Berlin M." was.

Samuel and Sarah still in Stanton by Dale in 1851, their address Botany Bay:

On Sarah's entry, a tick was shown in the "Blind, Deaf" column.

There is a marriage entry on the IGI for a Samuel Hallam to Sarah Hunt on 22 February 1819 at Stanton by Dale.

I have been exchanging emails with Helen Kominek who is a descendant of Samuel and Sarah's son, Robert.  Helen's research can be found by accessing this Hallam link.

I think this is Mary Hallam nee Horridge's parents in 1841 with a Jonothon Horidge, Brickmaker residing in Cotmanhay near Ilkeston, Derbyshire -

and also in the 1841 Census, I found a Mary Orridge, age 22 working as a Female Servant for Farmer, Joseph Attenborough, age 45 at Gill Brigg, in the hamlet of Kimberley, near Greasley, Notts.  Both Mary and Joseph were stated to be born "Out of County" - this might be Mary who in 1843 married Francis Hallam in Radford, Notts - marriage certificate shown above. 

If this is the correct family, the 1851 Census shows Mary's mother, Elizabeth Horridge as a widow, still living in Cotmanhay and she's shown as a Publican, born Cotmanhay:

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1861 Census

Barry's 2 x G Grandmother Martha Hallam was living with her widowed mother, Mary  in Evans Row, Ilkeston, prior to her marriage to Joseph Barrowcliffe:   

Francis Hallam's death occurred on 21st August 1859.  The cause of his untimely death at the age of 39 can be seen here -

According to http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm website "Ileus" is a bowel obstruction.

1871 Census shows Francis's widow Mary living with 3 of her children in Marehay, Ripley:

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Also in 1851, living in the Parish of Ilkeston, Gallows Inn were George and Mary Ann Dutton, Barry's 2 x Great Grandparents -

* The writing is not very clear here and the occupation as written does look like 'Boatman' but could be Banksman.   Subsequent information seems to suggest that 'Boatman' is the likely entry.  Strangely, the Deaf, Dumb and Blind column was ticked alongside all the entries with the exception of George Dutton, Snr.  These ticks though might be statistician's checking marks rather than denoting that the person marked was disabled in some way.

Receiving the following marriage certificate of George and Mary Dutton gave another new name - John Davies father of Mary Ann Williams (formerly Davies) - Barry's 3 x Great Grandfather and that Mary Ann was a widow!  George Dutton's father, Thomas Dutton -  Barry's 3 x Great Grandfather.  Witness William Hallam - this could be a relative of Martha Barrowcliffe (nee Hallam).

The marriage certificate for George Dutton and Mary Ann Williams, shown above showed another surprise - having already discovered that Mary Ann Williams was a widow - the above census shows a son "George Simpson"; begging the question - who were the parents of George? 

I tried to find the previous marriage of Mary Ann but without any success, until searching on the IGI for George Simpson's birth, I found that George was christened 31 May 1835 at Ilkeston and his parents were "Benjn Simpson and Mary Ann". 

I then searched on IGI for the marriage of Benjamin Simpson and found that Mary Ann Davies had married Benjamin Simpson on 12 December 1833 at Ilkeston.  George Dutton was Mary Ann's 3rd Husband! 

I found the baptism of George in the Ilkeston Registers on Page 187 in 1835:

Now knowing that Mary Ann's name was Simpson, I searched for her second marriage on BMD and this was in the Sept Quarter of 1838 and the only 'Williams' listed was John - Mary Ann's second husband was John Williams. Now I need their record from the 1841 Census to see if there are any other children.  I did find a death of John Williams on Ancestry.co.uk lists but trying to obtain the certificate, I was told that they could not find the entry and sent me my money back.  I have ordered the parish register film for the parish of Ilkeston - this might give me more information or a date to enable me to find the certificate.  After several months this has now arrived, but the early registers are very difficult to read . . . more information as and when I find any.

The following 1841 Census entry is the likely entry for George and Mary Ann Dutton - by 1841 they would have been married for only one year and if this is George and Mary, the entry is Ilkeston, Derbyshire; place Hungerhill - the Duttons appearing to be lodging with the Huckerby family:

George is probably Benjamin and Mary Ann Simpson's son George, age 6; Willm's age was in the female column!  I had to search through the Ilkeston records on Ancestry.co.uk for this entry as the enumerator has written what looks like 'Dotton' for their surname.