Barnes Family information

[Bob Dobson]

The advice was intended for the original poster - miker5280.

[barnesje2014]

Ref Miker5280 and Barnes of Whitebirk Bleachers related contributors.
In conjunction with commencement of tracing ancestry beyond more recent generations, I came across, and registered with, this web site. I note that the most recent post is June 2011, so the trail may be a little cold, but if anyone related wishes to re-activate some dialogue and share in back research, then please post.
I am James.E.Barnes, son of Late James (Jimmy) Barnes, nephew of Late Richard (Dick) Grimshaw Barnes, and half cousin to Kenneth Barnes (son of Fred Barnes .... my late father's cousin. The Whitebirk Bleachworks was sold by the family in 1970/1971 period to Staflex International ( clothing interlining specialist), which subsequently went into administration approx 1978. Ken was involved in a buy-out, Pendle Dyeing Co, but my contact with the family, so far as any direct knowledge of the business, ceased when the works was sold in 1970/71. Of course, a number of names of employees from the1960s era are known to me .... many staff spent many years of their working life there, and it would be interesting to receive any response to this information in order to establish family links. The direct decendants of the Barnes family still live in the Blackburn and Preston area