The sildeshow above contains rare photographs which include the Walkers of Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, including Hornshaws from Thorpe Arch, Louisa Makepeace from Huntingdon, London and Thorpe Arch, North Yorkshire, Doris Craven Richardson from the Nolan family of Bradford and the Nolan clan, of County Wicklow, Ireland and Bradford.
We see John Walker, a Hussar and his wife in Goldsborough,mid 19th century, Robert Walker of High House Farm Goldsborough, his daughter Sarah Ellen Gomersall, nee Walker, Frederick Walker, his son, both of Goldsborough and Bradford, Elizabeth Walker, nee Hornshaw - the Hornshaws were farmers at Whynns Farm (various spellings) Thorpe Arch, the Walkers as a couple in their 40s of Manningham Bradford, Louisa Makepeace Hornshaw as an 84 year old, with baby Geoffrey Hornshaw of Manningham Bradford, Doris Craven Richardson of Heaton and Manningham, Bradford, the Nolans, Bridget, Johannah, Doris Walker and Sheila Walker (later Barraclough) as a child, photo taken either in West Bowling or Great Horton, Bradford around 1924.
The photos range from the mid 19th century up to around 1924. Both the Walkers and the Hornshaws were farming families and they also had a farm at Tickhill near Knaresborough, in fact the families had been farmers for many years.
Some family members did not wish to farm and instead took other jobs or learned other trades, coming to Bradford in West Yorkshire and living in Manningham and Heaton districts. They were all close relatives of Peter Barrraclough, after whom this blog is named and their history is an interesting tapestry of intermingled events,many with connections to Bradford.
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