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« on: Tuesday 19 August 08 22:59 BST (UK) »
I`m new to this site, which I discovered by accident this evening, looking for my Clague ancestors. I am descended on my mother`s side from the Robert Clague mentioned in the IOM 1871 and 1851 Censuses, and the elder brother of Lewis. Like Lewis, he ended up in west Cumberland, at Cleator Moor, not far from Hensingham. He too worked as a miner. Our side of the Clague family seems to have disappeared nowadays in England, but I have cousins ( and,probably, their children,) who carry on the name in Australia. I`m currently trying to establish contact with them, but have had no success so far. I`ve so far got the family back to John Clague ( c. 1780) in Lonan.