A birth registration was found for George E. Barraclough: Mother's Maiden Surname: Davis; Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1921; Registration district: Scarborough; Registration county: Yorkshire; Volume Number: 9d; Page Number: 697. Parents: William Barraclough and Ada M. Davis, married September, 1918, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

William Barraclough and Ada M. Davis had at least 2 children: George E. Barraclough; and Dorothy D. Barraclough (born 1918). Dorothy went to Australia in 1932 and the siblings never saw each other again.

In 1930, George E. Barraclough, 9, arrived in Australia in a group of 53 Barnardo children from Stepney Causeway, London, and accompanied by Miss Rebecca Squires, from the Child Emigration Society, London.
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