Acknowledgements

The contributors to the book are also contributors to this website and so deserved our special thanks (maiden names are given in brackets where appropriate).

  • Noel and Leonora Bailey
  • Sheila Bailey
  • Harry and Pamela Barker
  • Herbert and Audrey Blenkiron
  • Michael and Olga Brown
  • Robin Cansfield
  • John (Jacky) and Betty Cockfield
  • Sheila Cornforth (Cockfield)
  • Bob and Ruth Dixon
  • Joe and Freda Dixon
  • Muriel Errington (Read)
  • Richard and Freda Foster (Read)
  • Stuart and Helen Hattan
  • Steve Jackson and the Australian descendents
  • Janet Johnson, daughter of Annie Darby (Storey)
  • Eric and Marjorie Loadman
  • Ann Lockey
  • Marjorie Manning (Pearson)
  • Roma Nichols (Tighe)
  • Jim and Hazel Pool
  • Chris and Bertha Pounder
  • Henry and Margery Pounder
  • John Pounder
  • Ken and Mary Read
  • Maurice Read
  • Elizabeth (Pounder) and Stan Robinson
  • Nancy Sayer
  • Neil and Sharon Walton
  • Pat Swainston (Nelson)
  • Betsy Terry (Cooper)
  • Rita Terry (Janney)
  • Nellie Thwaites (Loadman)
  • Geoffrey Tighe
  • Christine Wheatley (Sayer)
  • Ron and Maureen Williamson
  • Anne Wilson (Mileham)
  • Muriel Wilson (Terry)

We have also drawn from the following sources of information and professional photographers:

  • Churchyards of Hauxwell, Spennithorne and Finghall: Monumental Inscriptions
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • Mr Richard Dalton: Hauxwell Hall Estate records
  • The Darlington and Stockton Times, the Northern Echo, and Whitby Gazette
  • Mrs Denny Gibson, Hunter’s Hill, Crakehall
  • Rev Richard Harris: access to local Methodist Records
  • Alan Jackson of Leyburn: help with Loadman ancestry
  • The National Archives, Kew: Tithe maps and Apportionments, Military records
  • North Yorkshire County Record Office in Northallerton: Parish registers and other documents
  • Northallerton Local Studies Library: Census Returns 1841–1901, Trade Directories
  • Richmondshire Architecture by Jane Hatcher, Maxprint, 1990
  • The York Archaeological Trust
  • The Wensleydale Methodist Monthly
  • Roadways and Trackways of the Yorkshire Dales by Geoffrey N Wright, Moorland Publishing
  • Skyviews Aerial Archives at www.skyviewsarchives.com
  • Emma Amsden of Carperby: photographs of the Dixons
  • Maureen and Peter Halliday, personal communication
  • “The life-story of Dorothy Grand (née Read) 1896–1976” with permission of Mrs Sheila Hopps

Peter and June Underwood, the authors of The Barden Biography, are so grateful to their son Martin Underwood who must take credit for the technical design aspects of this website.