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I have come across an 1841 (handwritten of course) Census location somewhere near Burwains in Briercliffe, which looks like something between "Stoney Peaks" and "Stony Raikes". Does anyone recognise it as somewhere identifiable? An O/S map reference would be helpful if possible. Any suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.

Stoney Raikes Farm, according to Roger's book, was in existence in at least 1604. It means stony land near a narrow hill path.
Sorry I don't have map reference, but if you google 'map' & BB10 3RW you should be sble to see roughly where it is.

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Maureen
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At last my family have come in useful!!!!!

Stoney Raikes is an area still with existing properties, through Briercliffe, down the hill and on to the first 'old road ' to left, Stoney Rakes Farm was where my history hunt started many , many questions ago, the road leads through to Catlow Bottoms. My lot where there in 1850.
Found most of the info. on the society census page.

Listed as Stone Rakes, farm and cottages, if you are searching for family, they seem to have registered births and marriages at Colne Church but then were buried at Haggate.

the name is Stoney Raikes my aunt and uncle farmed there in the 30s for years not sure how long .
I know it well .

Many thanks "marg" - DAN

Portia and Hannah - I did post a reply yesterday, thanking you and referring to "Portia" as well as the Blackburns of Stoney Raikes, but now I can't see it - did I submit it properly? DAN

Not sure what could have happened there Dan. Unless you clicked preview instead of submit?

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Mel

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I shall try again to thank 'Portia' and 'Hannah' and 'Marg'. Hannah, I wonder if "your lot" was the Blackburn family, who were at Stoney Raikes in 1841? If so, that is the first of two coincidences, for John Blackburn went to work at Southfield (Great Marsden) which thanks to you three kind ladies I now know to be close by. At about age 23, he and my great-grandmother, the same age, in 1857 had a baby girl - my grandmother, but he doesn't seem to have been acknowledged as the father until my grandmother married in 1884. (Meanwhile John Blackburn and my great-grandmother had gone on to marry quite different people, the latter after having two more daughters, whose father(s) I haven't traced yet ....).
My happily married grandmother also had three daughters, of whom one was my mother. The second coincidence in your replies is that one of my earliest photographs of my mother (aged 12) is in full costume playing 'Portia' in the St John's School (Worsthorne) production of 'The Merchant of Venice', on 13 May 1905 - a real education!
Now let us see if I can learn to post a message properly for a change. Thank you all once again. DAN
P.S. Hannah you mention "Colne Church" - would that be St Bartholomew's, or Christ Church, where residents of Stoney Raikes tended to go to be baptised, married, and buried? Did they later switch to St James' Briercliffe, or St John's Great Marsden, both of which would be closer, when they opened?

My lot were the Whitakers, I have traced them back to 1705 in Colne, the early members were baptised and married at St Bart's ( the records are easy to read, I mean not as faded as some are), they seemed to be in Briercliffe area from about 1787 and moved slowly uphill to Briercliffe then Haggate ( and down hill financially) from about 1850 after my gt.x3 grandfather died and left a widow with a large young family. She seems to have kept them all employed in any job she could get.
Errand boy and girl for the two youngest! and out of the workhouse! and brought up my gt. grandfather as her youngest son. Never have found out who his father was, but he eventually ended up married and living down on Townley St off Briercliffe RD, the woman who was by then on the census as his correct mother lived with them plus an aunt and the first of his 8 children. He died a very prosperous man.
There must be a lot of third cousins out there.

p.s. You have made me pay attention to my records Dan,only just realised that on the 1881 census my gt. grandfather was living at 70 Townley St and one of his Uncles, William, was at no 80 with 8 children. I can't trace what happened to the youngest brother John, b.1850 but no doubt he had a big family somewhere not too far away from them.
So my grandfather grew up on a street with a tribe of relatives and his future wife lived a few doors away , why did no one discuss this when I was a child?
Sorry I have wandered off into my family.