The St Catherine’s House GRO Index: Barnsley January quarter of 1867

James Barker was born in Ingleton in 1815 the son of John Barker and
Esther Hodgson. He was the brother of Nancy and Ellen. He married Sarah
Windle on 15 June 1837 and they had nine children. On the 1851 Census they are living at Longberend, Ingleton and 1861 at Backcroft Ingleton so they must have moved to Hoyle Mill Barnsley after 1861. He had always worked in the mines and he and three of his sons who died in the Oaks.

• Thomas
• Andrew
• William

Thomas had been a door tender when he was 10. By 1861 he had moved to
Holye Mill and was lodging with George Borrowdale in Oak Row. He was married with one child by the time he died, aged 26, in the Oaks. His body was found with those of his brothers Andrew and William, “They were not burnt or scorched in the least, but they appeared as if asleep.”

Andrew Barker was born in Ingleton in 1820 the son of Richard Barker and
Tomasina Beck. He married Elizabeth Batty in 1842. His son Richard was born in Thornton parish in 1853 but by 1858 he was in South Yorkshire, his daughters, Mary and Margaret, were born in Hoyland in 1858 and 1860. The family was living at 65 Oak Row, Hoyle Mill on 1861 census. Richard died in the Oaks.

Andrew (14) and George (13), are George Wilson Barker’s two boys whom he was searching from when he ‘failed’ in the bad air. George Wilson Barker was the brother of Andrew and son of Richard and Tomasina.

George Borrowdale was born at Westhouse in 1817 and married James’s sister, Nancy in 1839. They lived at Bank in Ingleton on the 1941 Census and
George was a coal miner. While working at Wilson wood in February 1860 he was caught in a rockfall and received injuries to his back chest and legs. In
1861 they were living at Oak Row. Nancy died early in 1866. George was one of the first survivors brought to be brought out by the rescue parties. He was burnt so badly that he died within the week.

Richard Oakley Nichols is recorded on the Barnsley Chronicle memorial as
Richard Oakley. He was the husband of Jane Borrowdale daughter of George
Borrowdale. The Barnsley Chronicle gives 3 children and the Lancaster Guardian gives 4. Jane had Maria Peach before she married Richard in 1864 and had Mary and Esther before his death and she had Margaret in 1869. On the 1871 census these four children are recorded as Nichols.
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Robert Remington (17) also died in the Oaks, his father Richard (44) survived as he had been ill that day and not gone to work. They came from
Ingleton.

William Sugden was born in Dodsworth in 1810. He was known as Barker, “Barker is his name but he is called William Sugden {Mr. V Blackburn: William Sugden Barker is his real name.”} (inquest)

George Barker (12), who lived in Barnsley was son of Thomas Barker from Newark, not of our family.