Did you ever find out more about your Robert Barrass? My husband's family has a Robert Barrass, born in Newcastle on Tyne 1811, parents William and Elizabeth Noble. He married a Mary Jane Wade also! Mary Jane died in 1868 in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. I have 3 children: Margaret (1837), Mary Jane (1841) and Joseph (1844). Margaret married Moses Ferris and Mary Jane married Moses' brother Thomas. They all went to Scotland and emigrated to Lowell, MA in about 1879. Robert Barris is living with Margaret and Moses Ferris in the 1880 Lowell, MA census. He married a third time in Scotland and that document gives the names of his parents. Just this week I received a copy of an old photo labeled Alden & Nellie Barris. Any connection to your family?