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Way back in 2001 when I posted this message:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/barnard/messages/1233.html
I knew nothing. ;) I understood that my Barnard grandfather was from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ... but it turns out that's just where his parents lived as adults.
Through the miracle of modern technology, and online census and BMD databases, I have learned more -- and met a couple of descendants in England of my Barnard great-grandfather's siblings.
My great-grandfather William Frederick Barnard was born in 1868 in Blean, Canterbury, Kent, England. He had (mostly older) siblings
Ada
Agnes
Alice
Amelia
George
James
Rosa
His father was Richard Barnard. His mother was Mary Ann Cowdell. (Amelia, George and James were children of Amelia Harnett, Richard's first wife.)
He married Annie Boulden Horne, and had children
Douglas Frederick (my grandfather, 1892)
Dorothy Marian (c1894)
Maud (c1895)
Ida Margaret (c1897).
Richard Barnard (father of William Frederick), my gr-gr-grandfather, was born in Bristol in 1821, per the UK censuses. He was a cabinetmaker.
His father was Richard Barnard, "goldbeater", per the Richard Barnard - Mary Ann Cowdell marriage certificate in 1861. In the 1841 UK census in Kent there are two Richard Barnards in Kent born out of the county who could be my Richard Sr., but the info is too sparce to tell.
There are Barnards in the Bristol area in the UK censuses and BMDs, but I have no way of knowing whether or how they might be connected to my Barnards. Unless I go hiring researchers to track down my Richard's c1921 birth. ;)
So -- any Barnards with circa-1800 roots in Gloucestershire, England, here??
Anyone know of a Richard Barnard born around the 1790s in the Bristol area, who might be my gr-gr-gr-grandfather?
My Barnard grandfather and grandmother immigrated to Canada in the early 1920s as adults with one child already, so the family tree here in Canada is a very short one.
Two of his sisters emigrated from England to the US as adults, apparently to Michigan. I am going to post separately about them, as we have lost all contact with them and I would love to meet their descendants.
Any info welcome!
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