) Daniel, was born in 1725, and he emigrated to the USA and married Catherine Curle. Daniel Barraud became a successful merchant, partnering in a Company, Balfour & Barraud. James Balfour was a Scottish emigrant who was a factor for the prominent Hanbury firm of London. He was a merchant in Hampton and Norfolk and was a partner in the firm of Balfour and Barraud with Daniel Barraud. The store sold sundries, tobacco, linens and pots, and even offered rewards for the capture of runaway slaves. (see below) The merchants did business with George Washington and also shipped goods to England. It has been mentioned that Balfour & Barraud shipped 1,000 barrels of flour on behalf of George Washington as they had used his ship for the transport, and agreed to pay him £1,400 but had not paid him for 10 years. As far back as 1766, the firm imported ice skates from England and advertisements in the Virginia Gazette from October and November of 1766 offered these with or without leather. Daniel Barraud and his wife Catherine Curle had nine children, but only four made it to adulthood. His eldest daughter, Sarah (nicknamed Sally) married Robert Taylor, the mayor of Norfolk (Virginia), and their son became General Robert Barraud-Taylor who commanded all American forces in the Norfolk area during the war between England and the Colonies, and defeated the British Fleet at Craney Island on the 22nd June, 1813. In the battle, not a single American casualty was reported. For success in this battle, Robert Taylor was known as the “Saviour of Norfolk”. Philip Barraud, a son, of Daniel Barraud, became a well-known surgeon during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. He kept his practice in Williamsburg but moved to Norfolk to run the Navy's hospital. Colonial Williamsburg maintains Philip Barraud's old house, and the College of William and Mary keep the family papers. He purchased a wide swath of land along the Lafayette River, where he built his "country" house, calling it "Glenair." Philip and his wife had a number of children, including Daniel Cary Barraud and Mira (or Myra) Barraud. Daniel Cary Barraud also became a physician and he graduated from Virginia Military Institute and became a respected lawyer in Norfolk. He had a number of children, including a son, Philip St. George, and daughters Mira Rosa (or Myra) and Mary Augusta, and they lived at least for a time in that house along the river before the family moved to Richmond. They retained ownership of Glenair, and when Daniel Cary died in 1908, the children ended up in a court battle over ownership. Philip St. George, it seemed, ran off with another woman while facing indictment for forgery and embezzlement and the children then sued Philip's wife, Sally, for ownership, but a judge ruled in favour of Sally. After Sally died, the property returned to Mira and the surviving children. In the 1920s, they sold the land to the city of Norfolk and it became known as Barraud Park, the first recreational area for blacks. Because of segregation, blacks were not allowed at the larger and more developed Lafayette Park further up the street. The Barraud family hasn't lived in Norfolk for about a century and today, no Barrauds are in the phone book, and none can be found living there. The Barraud family has this park, an avenue and a neighbourhood named after them, yet Norfolk has few records explaining exactly who the Barrauds were. The 23-acre Barraud Park at one time had a small zoo. It now has a small amphitheater, basketball, football, tennis and baseball areas, and a pier, and is home to the city's boxing arena. (see Page 30)