When a Barnsley is not a Barnsley
My great grandfather, Samuel Barnsley, a chain maker, was born in 1874 and lived to the age of 87. My grandmother’s maiden name was Barnsley and I never heard mention of any other name.
The first inkling however that Barnsley was not exactly Barnsley arose when it proved difficult to find Samuel and his family on census returns. The immediate family resided on Maughan Street directly behind Christ Church in Quarry Bank and was found by examining census returns for the street rather than searching by name.
Samuel’s family was recorded with different surnames:
1841 – Noke
1851 – Barnsley
1861 – Nock
1871 – Barnsley
1881 – Nock
1891 – Barnsley
Further research revealed that Samuel had actually been born as Samuel Barnsley Nock, married as Samuel Barnsley and passed the Barnsley part of his double-barrelled surname to his children.
It also transpired over time that Barnsley Nock was a name peculiar to certain areas of the Black Country during the 19th and 20th centuries that could be traced back to one marriage in 1801.
Alternative transcriptions, documents and newspaper reports also recorded the name as B. Nock and Barnesley Nock.
Moving into the 20th century, different parts of the family began to favour either Barnsley or Nock as their surname and the double-barrelled form of the name was largely dropped over time.
Christ Church on right
Quarry Bank is one of the former rural areas of the Black Country where cottage industry such as nail making settled. By the end of the 19th century, 90% of all the chain workshops in England and Wales were in the five Black Country towns of Cradley, Cradley Heath, Old Hill, Netherton and Quarry Bank.
Thomas Nock & Sarah Barnsley
my 6x great grandparents
married at Rowley Regis on 23 May 1727
Children:
Sarah
Mary
Thomas
baptised at Rowley Regis on 10 May 1720
Thomas Nock & Sarah Richards
my 5x great grandparents
married at Rowley Regis on 13 April 1749
Children:
William
Hannah
Mark
Benjamin
Jane
Zachariah
Thomas
Thomas’ and Sarah’s youngest child, Thomas, my 4x great grandfather, was born in the parish of Rowley Regis around 1771/1772. He took or was given his grandmother’s maiden name of Barnsley. This was as a middle name rather than as part of a double-barrelled surname. Even if his siblings were given this name, all other descendants of male children from the marriage of Thomas Nock and Sarah Richards adopted Nock as their surname.
Thomas Barnsley Nock & Mary Addleton
My 4x great grandparents married at St Mary’s Church in Kingswinford on 17 October 1801.
Thomas was a nail maker. The couple lived at Birch Coppice and had 8 children carrying the Barnsley Nock name baptised at the Park Lane Presbyterian Chapel in Cradley.
By 1841, Thomas was a widow and living in the centre of the town of Dudley on George Street. At some point before 1850, he was admitted to the parish workhouse on Tower Street.
Tower Street was in the centre of town in a closely built-up residential area. The workhouse was small at around 600 square metres and held a maximum of 98 inmates. It was hit by a typhus fever epidemic in 1847 and cholera in 1849. On 6 August 1851, a superintending government inspector of health, William Lee, opened a Public Enquiry in Dudley and went on to interview the town’s officials and inhabitants as well as extensively inspect the town. His report on “sewerage, drainage and supply of water, and the sanitary conditions of the inhabitants of the parish of Dudley” based on his enquiry was published in the following year in 1852. He concluded the workhouse was inadequate and that “a more commodious and more healthy workhouse is much needed”. Indeed, petitions had been made for the building of a new workhouse.
By 1854, The Board of Guardians had begun to consider sites for a new Union Workhouse submitted to them by the Workhouse Building Committee, one of them situated on the road between Dudley and Wolverhampton in the parish of Sedgley on land belonging to the Earl of Dudley. The land was purchased and a new larger workhouse for around 800 inmates was built from 1855 to 1856 according to plans “in the Italian style” drawn up by G.B. Nicholls of West Bromwich.
Thomas Barnsley Nock died at this new workhouse on 24 December 1859. He was 88 years old and the causes of his death were “old age” and “debility”. He was buried at St Peter’s Church in Upper Gornal three days later.
Children
- Josiah Barnsley Nock
- Ruth Barnsley Nock
- Thomas Barnsley Nock (my 3x great grandfather)
- Hannah Barnsley Nock
- Sarah Barnsley Nock
- Joseph Barnsley Nock
- Mary Barnsley Nock
- William Barnsley Nock
Who was a Barnsley Nock?
The following represents a record of people who adopted the name of Barnsley Nock, at least for part of their lives. I hope this is complete. The research gets very confusing at times with an overlap of forenames and different uses and transcriptions of the surname. If you wish to question, correct or add details or pictures, please comment using the contact form at the end of this blog.
The Barnsley Nocks were largely nailers, iron labourers, puddlers and chain makers working in the metal bashing industries typical of the Black Country.
1. JOSIAH BARNSLEY NOCK
Josiah was born in approximately 1802 and baptised on 26 February 1805.
Josiah, a nailer and horse nail maker at Saltwells, married a girl from another Saltwells nailing family, Fanny Billingham.
They had eight children who took the Barnsley Nock name but who mostly gradually shortened the family name to Nock.
1.1 Mary Ann Barnsley Nock
Mary Ann was baptised in Brierley Hill on 8 April 1827.
She firstly married Noah Tipper, a puddler of iron, and lived at Saltwells close to her parents’ home.
Noah worked at the Congreaves Ironworks belonging to the British Iron Company. A boiler explosion on Good Friday in 1858 killed two people at the ironworks and it was reported that:
Noah Tipper, a puddler residing at Quarry Bank who was also near the boiler, on hearing the report attempted to run out of the works, but being knocked down by one of the waggons has one of his legs broken.
Noah died just over four years later in 1862 leaving Mary Ann a widow with five children aged between 14 and 1.
Mary Ann remarried James Mallen, a blacksmith, on 7 March 1869. James was the widower of Mary Ann’s cousin, Sebra Billingham, who had died at the approximate age of 36. James had four children from his first marriage and Mary Ann and James had two further children. Shortly after the marriage, the couple moved to Great Bridge and then to Smethwick where Mary Ann died in 1905.
1.2. Ruth Barnsley Nock
Ruth was born in around 1827. A nailer, she married James Street, a miner, on 9 April 1849 and had 13 or 14 children. The witnesses at the marriage were her sister, Mary Ann (1.1 Barnsley Nock), and brother-in-law, Noah Tipper.
Ruth and James lived at Saltwells in 1851 and 1861 and Birch Coppice in 1871 and 1881. By 1891, the family had moved to Z Street in Quarry Bank when James was a coal mine deputy manager. By 1901, he was a coal mine manager. Ruth died at the age of 73 on 24 February 1899 and James in 1901, leaving an estate valued at almost £900.
1.3 Thomas Barnsley Nock
Thomas was born on 10 July 1832 and baptised at Round Oak Primitive Methodist Church in Brierley Hill on 14 September 1836.
He was most likely the Thomas Barnsley Nock “living at the Coppice” who was fined 5s and costs for assaulting a woman named McManus, servant to Mr Griffiths at the Saltwells in September 1854. A puddler, he married Emma Perks, the daughter of a horse nail maker, on 25 December 1855, had three children and died in 1884.
1.3.1 Josiah Barnsley Nock
was born in 1858 in Quarry Bank and married Fanny Siviter in 1884. The couple had 5 daughters and 2 sons who went on to adopt Nock as their surname. Josiah was an iron puddler who died in 1926.
1.3.2 Esther Barnsley Nock
was born in 1860. She married an iron puddler, George Hall, who died in 1920. Esther did not have any children.
1.3.3 Thomas Barnsley Nock
born in 1863, married Hagar Danks in 1883. He lived in Cradley and worked as an iron puddler and chain striker. He died in 1915. His children all adopted the full Barnsley Nock name:
1.3.3.1 William Barnsley Nock
was a chain maker who worked at Hingley & Sons in Netherton. Born in 1880 at Mushroom Green, he lived at Lyde Green during his married life and died at Corbett Hospital in 1959.
1.3.3.2 Florence Barnsley Nock
was born at Lyde Green in 1885. She married Harry Raybould in 1903 and they both worked as chain makers for firms in Cradley. Florence died in 1931.
1.3.3.3 Josiah Barnsley Nock
born in 1888, Josiah was a chainmaker who married Maria Westwood in 1907. The couple lived in Wollescote where Josiah died in 1918. He had four children:
Josiah Immanuel Barnsley Nock (1909-1995) m. Winifred Cox
Ada Barnsley Nock (1912-?)
Lily Barnsley Nock (1915-1982) m. ? Edge
William Barnsley Nock (1918-1959).
1.3.3.4 Thomas Barnsley Nock
was born in Cradley in 1891 and worked as an iron worker before the First World War. He enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment but was discharged in 1916. It is unclear what happened to him next.
1.3.3.5 Esther Barnsley Nock
was born in 1895 and worked as a chain maker until her marriage to Ernest Mole in 1919. The couple had four children and Esther died in 1951.
1.3.3.6 Hagar Barnsley Nock (1901-1901)
1.4 Edward Barnsley Nock
Edward was born on 6 April 1835 and baptised on the same day as his brother Thomas at Round Oak Primitive Methodist Church.
Edward was charged alongside his cousins, James, William, Aaron and Edward Billingham and his brother-in-law Noah Tipper, with assaulting Benjamin Homer in August 1853. He was fined 2s 6d and costs.
A puddler, he firstly married married Lucy Cartwright, a daughter of a coal miner living at Swinford Wood, in December 1861. Lucy must have died shortly afterwards. There is no evidence of any children from this first marriage and Edward Nock remarried Emma Price in Birmingham on 25 February 1866. After this marriage, he moved to Oldbury and favoured the Nock surname which was adopted by his three sons, Josiah, Joseph and Alexander. Edward died in Oldbury in 1899.
1.5 Sarah Barnsley Nock
Sarah was born in around 1838.
She lived with her parents at Saltwells in both 1851 and 1861 when she was working as a nailer at the ages of 13 and 23. No further record of her has been found.
1.6 Charlotte Barnsley Nock
Charlotte was born in around 1841.
She lived with her parents at Saltwells in 1851 when she was working as a nailer at the age of 10. No further record has been found for Charlotte.
1.7 Alexander Barnsley Nock
Alexander was born in 1843. He also lived at Saltwells in his parents’ home and was working as a puddler of iron by the age of 17.
On 11 December 1876, Alexander had a fight with his nephew, Josiah Tipper (25), also a puddler and son of his sister Mary Ann (Barnsley Nock 1.1), outside the Three Horse Shoes public house (High Street in Quarry Bank, now demolished) after they had been drinking and quarrelling.
Both fell in the fifth round of the fight and Josiah was discovered to be dead when he was picked up.
At an inquest at the Blue Ball in Quarry Bank on 15 December, it was established that Josiah Tipper’s heart had ruptured and three ribs were broken pressing against his organs. The jury returned a verdict of “manslaughter against Nock”.
The case went to trial at Stafford Assizes on 2 March 1877 when Alexander was found not guilty of manslaughter as it was concluded that Josiah’s death was probably a consequence of the fall rather than unfair fighting.
Four years later, Alexander was unmarried and living as a lodger in Wednesbury. No further record of him has been found so that it is not known if he later married or had children.
1.8 Josiah Barnsley Nock
Josiah was born on 17 October 1845 and died in 1899.
He also lived at Saltwells in his parents’ home and was working as a puddler by the age of 16. He married Phoebe Homer in 1864 and later worked as a chain maker. The couple had ten children who all favoured the Nock surname. Josiah’s four sons, Joseph, Thomas, Alfred Henry and Richmond, were all chain makers whose children also went by the Nock surname.
2. RUTH BARNSLEY NOCK
born on 30 January 1803 and baptised on 26 February 1805.
It is not known whether Ruth married or lived to adulthood as no further record has been found.
3. THOMAS BARNSLEY NOCK
My 3x great grandfather was born on 10 September 1806 and baptised on 23 March 1809.
He married Ann Jones at St Mary’s in Kingswinford on 27 October 1833. Thomas’ occupation was recorded at various times as a nailer, labourer, forge labourer, fitter and a labourer in ironworks.
Thomas and Ann had five sons who were all chain makers whose descendants ultimately adopted the Barnsley surname.
3.1 Isaiah Barnsley Nock
Isaiah was baptised at Oldswinford on 16 November 1834
and married Isabella Homer at Quarry Bank on 15 November 1863.
He lived most of his life on Maughan Street and the end of his life with his daughter Sarah Ann Guest and her family on adjoining Z Street, next door to Isaiah’s cousin, Ruth Street (Barnsley Nock 1.2), and her family.
The couple had nine children and both Isaiah and Isabella died in 1916:
3.1.1 Joseph Barnsley
was born on 9 February 1864 and married Agnes Westwood in 1890. The couple lived on Thorns Road and were living in Amblecote when Agnes died in 1905.
Joseph and his son, Isaiah, went on to live with my great grandfather’s family on Derry Street in Brierley Hill. Joseph, Isaiah and my great grandfather, Samuel, worked as chain makers at Samuel Taylor & Sons on Brettell Lane.
Joseph later moved together with my great grandparents to Westwood Street on the Hawbush estate in Brierley Hill and died on 10 November 1941.
His five children were:
Lily May Barnsley (1890-1976)
Edith Barnsley (1893-1976)
Sarah Barnsley (1896-1986)
William Henry Barnsley (1898-1918)
Isaiah Barnsley (1900-1986)
3.1.2 Sarah Ann Barnsley
was born in 1867 and died in 1912 in Quarry Bank. She married Joseph Guest, a chain maker, and had six children.
3.1.3 Henry Barnsley Nock
was born in Quarry Bank in 1868 and was a chain maker. He married Ellen Phillips in 1894 and the couple relocated shortly afterwards to Glamorgan in Wales where their children’s births were registered with the Barnsley surname:
Ada Barnsley (b. 1897)
Gilbert Barnsley (1899-1916)
Mildred Barnsley (b.1902)
Emrys Barnsley (1903-1976)
Isabella Ellen Barnsley (1908-1984).
Once in Wales, Henry worked in coal mining and died in 1950.
3.1.4 Sophia Barnsley
(1871-1872)
3.1.5 Ellen Barnsley Nock
(b. 1874) also moved to Wales to Tredegar after her marriage in Quarry Bank in 1903 to Abel Wood, a coal mine worker. The couple did not have children but did adopt a daughter in 1918, Isabella May Barnsley Nock, who was probably the daughter of Ellen’s brother Ezra Barnsley Nock (3.1.6).
3.1.6 Ezra Barnsley Nock
Born in 1877, Ezra worked as a blower in a chain shop but followed his siblings to Wales and worked in coal mining. He married Jane Hughes in Wales as Ezra Barnsley Nock but later embraced the Barnsley surname as did his four children:
William Charles Barnsley (1914-1962)
Emrys Barnsley (1916-1985)
Sarah Ann Barnsley (1919-1981)
Clara Barnsley (1922-1986)
3.1.7 Agnes Barnsley Nock
Born in 1880, Agnes lived in Quarry Bank and had moved to Brierley Hill by 1939. She married John Thomas Dunn, an iron worker, had ten children and died in 1961.
3.1.8 Charles Barnsley Nock
Charles made the move from Quarry Bank to Tredegar in Wales after his marriage to Elizabeth Perks in 1902. He then worked in coal mining until his death at the age of 38 in 1920 when Elizabeth was pregnant with his sixth child, Charles William. His children were:
Martha Ellen Barnsley Nock (1906-1922)
Horace Barnsley (1909-1989)
Annie Elizabeth Barnsley (1912-1989)
George Edwin Barnsley (1914-1985)
Thomas Henry Barnsley (1918-1978)
Charles William Barnsley Nock (1921-1923).
3.2 Amos Barnsley Nock
Amos was born on 25 April 1836 and baptised on 31 October 1836 at Park Lane Presbyterian Church.
At the age of 45 in 1883, Amos was described as a chain maker of powerful physique with a face marked by small pox and a ‘somewhat sallow and pasty aspect’ in a report at Powick Lunatic Asylum. It was also noted that he was well nourished and literate.
Amos married Mercy Pearson in 1864 who died just five years later. His second marriage was to Mary Ann Rogers (maiden name Dunn) the widow of John Rogers, a miner, who lived on Maughan Street.
Amos held the licence at the Elephant and Castle public house at Rose Hill, High Street, Quarry Bank from 1866 to 1868. He was also a witness for a case in Stourbridge in 1869 when a fellow chain maker, Stephen Rock, claimed that he had been paid in “truck”, i.e. in beer, and not in coin of the realm. During the cross examination, Amos admitted that he had previously been convicted of bellows cutting and had spent two months in prison. Bellows cutting was an action taken in nail and chain making to render bellows useless so as to prevent others from working. This may have been during a strike or other union action against blackleg labour.
Amos was admitted to Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum in Powick on 1 May 1883 due to acute mania and an attack of 3 weeks’ duration. After throwing a policeman into a ditch, he was restless, incoherent and ‘strange in talk’, imagining people shouting at him. Amos improved by 6 May and was aware that he had imagined voices. By May 8, he had admitted to drinking heavily and felt the drink was responsible for his behaviour. He was placed on the convalescent ward on May 11 and was in good health by May 22. On June 24, he was allowed out of the Asylum on trial and finally released on 9 July 1883.
Amos died in 1910 and did not have children.
3.3 Joseph Barnsley Nock
Joseph was born in about 1838.
Joseph died in 1852 at around the age of 14 when he was already working as a chain maker.
3.4 Alfred Barnsley Nock
Alfred was born in about 1840.
Alfred did not appear on the census after 1851 but could be the Alfred Nock who died in 1866.
3.5 Josiah Barnsley Nock
Josiah was born on 1 July 1843 and was my great great grandfather.
On 14 March 1864, Josiah married Sarah Stevens, the daughter of a coal miner who was working as a servant on Maughan Street. A chain maker, Josiah lived on Maughan Street all his life and died some time between 1891 when he appeared on the census and 1898 when his widowed wife remarried Nehemiah Wood, a chain smith from Netherton.
The 1911 census recorded that Sarah had had ten children, six of whom are known:
3.5.1 Walter Barnsley Nock
was born on 21 July 1866 and married Elizabeth Griffen in 1886. He lived on Maughan Street but relocated to Norton in the Moors to the north east of Stoke-on-Trent to work as a cable chain maker at the Samuel Taylor & Sons factory at Ford Green. He died in 1944.
Walter used Barnsley as his surname and this passed onto his four children:
Sabra Ann Barnsley (1888-1972)
Walter Barnsley (1890-1974)
Ethel Barnsley (1895-1973)
Eli Barnsley (1898-1980).
3.5.2 Amos Barnsley Nock
1868-1891
3.5.3 Phoebe Barnsley Nock
1870-1889
3.5.4. Samuel Barnsley Nock
My great grandfather married Alice Skidmore in 1898. He was a chain maker at the Brettell Lane chain and anchor factory of Samuel Taylor & Sons. His two daughters, Elsie and Gladys, my grandmother, had Barnsley as their surname. Samuel died at the age of 87 in 1962.
3.5.5 Mary Barnsley Nock
Mary was born in 1877 and married Benjamin Stevens in 1899 as Mary Barnsley. Benjamin worked at the holloware factory of Bird Stevens & Co in Quarry Bank where the couple lived and had three children.
3.5.6 Cecilia Barnsley Nock
Cecilia married Richard Shaw, a boot dealer on Brettell Lane. They had two daughters and Cecilia died at the aged of 83 in 1964.
4. HANNAH BARNSLEY NOCK
born about 1809 and baptised on 23 March 1809.
Hannah as Hannah Barnsley, married Henry Bloomer, a horse nail maker born in Cradley, on 27 November 1831.
They went on to have four children:
Reuben (1835-1919)
Ellen (1836-1915)
Joseph (1840-1885)
Priscilla (1845-1923).
Hannah died at the age of 82 in 1891 surviving her husband by six years. Shortly before her death, her last residence was recorded at Z Street in Quarry Bank where she was “living on her own means” in the household of her daughter Ellen and husband William Willetts, a chain maker.
Hannah’s son, Joseph, died at the age of 44 leaving his wife, Phoebe (Glaze), a widow with eight children. Her daughter Priscilla was also widowed after her husband, John Capeman aged 37, was buried by a fall of coal at Homer Hill Colliery on 5 November 1881. Priscilla and her three surviving children emigrated together with Phoebe and her eight children to the United States in 1886 where they both remarried.
5. SARAH BARNSLEY NOCK
baptised on 2 June 1812.
It is not known whether Sarah married or lived to adulthood as no further record has been found although she could be the Sarah Barnsley who died in Rowley Regis in 1814.
6. JOSEPH BARNSLEY NOCK
born in around 1817 and baptised on 3 May 1817.
Joseph Barnsley Nock was a nailer living next to the household of his brother Josiah (Barnsley Nock 1.) in 1841 and in the household of his sister Hannah (Barnsley Nock 4.) in 1851. He appears to have first married at the age of 37 in 1854 to a widow named Sarah Cox, maiden name Williams, with four children.
Less than a year later in March 1855, Joseph was charged with assaulting his wife by striking her with an iron bar after the police had apprehended him during the assault. Joseph was given a six-month prison sentence.
Not long after leaving prison, Joseph was convicted of another violent assault on his stepdaughter, Emma Cox, on a Friday night in February 1856. Emma appeared “well dressed” at the petty sessions in Brierley Hill but with two black eyes not wishing to press the charges on her stepfather. Joseph promised not to repeat the assault but was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour “on account of the number of brutal assaults on women that had taken place.”
Unsurprisingly, Joseph did not live with his wife or any of his stepchildren after these incidents and it has proven difficult to ascertain what happened to Sarah after the assault on her. Emma married another horse nail maker, Samuel Grosvenor, in 1859 but died at the age of 33.
Joseph was living in the household of his sister, Mary (Barnsley Nock 7.), in 1861 and next door to Mary’s daughter, Maria Tipper, in 1871 working as a labourer in an ironworks. In 1891, he was boarding in the household of Charles Homer and died in 1897 when he would have been over the age of 80. Joseph did not appear to have had any children.
7. MARY BARNSLEY NOCK
born on 14 April 1817 and baptised on 3 May 1817.
Mary Barnsley Nock firstly married Thomas Tipper, an iron refiner, and had four children whose birth registrations gave Mary’s maiden name as Barnsley.
Thomas Tipper died between 1851 and 1854 when Mary was remarried as “Mary Tipper or Barnsley” to Enoch Bloomer, fourteen years her junior, on 1 May at St. Thomas’ Church in Dudley. Her brother-in-law, Henry Bloomer, was Enoch’s uncle.
The Bloomers were another family involved in nail making and horse nail making. Enoch was a horse nail maker himself who went on to run a general dealership on the High Street in Quarry Bank. The couple had five children together.
Mary died on 25 March 1892 and was buried at Christ Church in Quarry Bank, directly at the back of the church. Enoch remarried Mary Ann Johnson in 1893 and died on 7 May 1901 but was buried in the same plot as his first wife, Mary Barnsley Nock. The same grave holds their grandson, Samuel Glaze who died at the age of 11 in 1896. He was the son of their daughter, Tamar, and her husband Samuel Glaze whose burial plot lies alongside.
Mary Barnsley Nock’s daughter Mary Bloomer married Albert Hingley and emigrated to Pittsburgh, USA, in 1887.
8. WILLIAM BARNSLEY NOCK
born in around 1820 and baptised on 6 April 1820.
William Barnsley Nock, a nailer, lived in Quarry Bank with his sister Hannah and her family and his brother, Joseph (Barnsley Nock 6.), at the time of the 1851 census.
In June 1853, he and Joseph Easthope were ordered to “find sureties to keep the peace for six months” for committing a breach of the peace by fighting. He was charged with cock fighting alongside 40 other nailers, colliers and chainmakers including his brother Joseph in 1857.
It has not proved possible to find any trace of William after this date and no Barnsley Nock ancestors can be traced back to him.
More of a Nock
So, two brothers from the Thomas Barnsley Nock and Mary Addelton marriage had children passing on the Barnsley Nock name. The first was the eldest brother 1. JOSIAH whose descendants over time tended to adopt Nock as their surname and the second was 3. THOMAS whose descendants generally took the Barnsley surname.
When I first came across my great great grandfather’s name of Josiah Barnsley Nock, it struck me as wonderfully Dickensian and unique. In a way it was unique as the name can only be found in one extended family during a certain period.
However, there were five Josiah Barnsley Nocks as different stages and at least three Josiah Nocks in the same extended family. The Josiah Barnsley Nock of Quarry Bank who was fined 2s 6d and costs for being drunk in July 1880 could have been my great great grandfather or his cousin.
All in all, my grandmother was probably more of a Nock than a Barnsley or at least more of Barnsley Nock than a Barnsley and I am certain she was completely unaware of this during her lifetime.
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