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I've just posted this info/query in reply to a very old message down the board, but as it seems that there might be a close connection between my Wiltshire Barnards and the US Barnards who are the subject of much of the discussion here, I thought I'd offer the hypothesis here and see whether anyone knows any more at this point.
My post above is about Richard Barnard of Mere, Wiltshire, born c1792. I think his parents were probably Benjamin and Mary, who also had a son Thomas and daughter Ann, that I know of.
(There is also a stray Comfort Barnard I know of, whose descendant can find no info about her, who appears to have been born in Bristol around 1804 and could be connected with these as well.)
These names -- Benjamin, Thomas, Richard ... and of course Mary and Ann -- are all too common in English Barnard clans. (As compared to my Hills, e.g., where everyone is James or William.) Barnard itself is hugely more common a name in England than in Canada or the US.
MERE and CHILMARK are very close in Wiltshire -- Mere is w/in 10 miles SW of Warminster, Chilmark is w/in 10 miles SE -- they form pretty much an equilateral triangle, as you can see if you find Mere and then Chilmark at Google maps, and compare.
In the English records post 1837 -- BMDs in the GRO, and 1841+ censuses -- there just aren't any Barnards in that area, except for my Richard Sr, who was in the workhouse in Mere in 1851 and 1861 (presumably admitted to the workhouse in his home parish, after having been somewhere else, like Bristol).
I understand that NATHANIEL BARNARD and MARY BARNARD, early US settlers and cousins who married, were possibly from Chilmark.
http://www.haworthassociation.org/Bios/Huber/Generation9.htm
"450. Nathaniel BARNARD, born November 15, 1642 in England; died May 03, 1718 in Nantucket, MA. He was the son of Thomas BARNARD and Eleanor HELENA. He married 451. Mary BARNARD Abt. 1665 in (they are 1st cousins)
451. Mary BARNARD, born Abt. 1651 in Andover, Essex, MA; died January 17, 1717/18 in Nantucket, MA. She was the daughter of Robert BARNARD and Joanna HARVEY."
I see someone's website saying that Robert Barnard was born in "Branstone, Essex, UK". Branstone is on the Isle of Wight ... the only place "Branstone, Essex" appears on the internet is in relation to this Robert Barnard. Beware.
Another:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marbledb&id=I07399
has this contradictory information:
"Robert BARNARD was christened on 19 Oct 1617 at Church of England Parish Church, Lowestoft, *Suffolk*, England. He married Joanne (HARVEY?)circa 1641. He died in 1682 at Nantucket, MA.
Born ca 1614 in (*Yorkshire*?) England. Robert died in Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA, in 1682; he was 68. Occupation: Yeoman. Robert married Joanna HARVEY, daughter of William HARVEY & Joane HUCKER. Joanna died on 31 Mar 1705/1706 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. Joanna was baptized in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, on 19 Oct 1617."
Hmm.
Anyway, one of their sons married a daughter of:
"496. Thomas MACY, born 1608 in from CHILMARK, Wiltshire, England in 1635; died April 19, 1682 in Nantucket, MA from 1659 (see notes). He was the son of Thomas MACY and ? (Macy). He married 497. Sarah HOPCOTT June 09, 1643 in Chilmark Parish, Wiltshire, England.
497. Sarah HOPCOTT, born 1610 in CHILMARK, Wiltshire, England; died 1706 in Nantucket, MA."
according to info in various places on the net. There are numerous Macys in Chilmark in the English censuses, although no Hopcotts. Or Barnards.
The names Benjamin and Thomas -- father and son in the Wiltshire removal order in my apparent line -- appear among Barnard descendants in the US.
My Barnards came to Canada, much later -- my grandparents, in the 1920s. I have met a couple of others in my line in England -- i.e. also descended from children of
RICHARD BARNARD born c1821 in Bristol, who appears to be the son of
RICHARD BARNARD born c1792 in Mere, who I think is probably the son of
BENJAMIN BARNARD ordered removed from Poole St James, Dorset, to Mere, in January 1792 (see previous post).
-- but no one from any farther back.
So Benjamin Barnard, presumably born sometime around 1765 in Mere, Wiltshire, would be my grx4 grandfather. A Barnard born around 1600 would certainly add a few more greats to that -- but the generations may have kept the Benjamin and Thomas names that also show up in your lines intact.
Maybe I need to have my nephew spit on a stick for a DNA project somewhere so we can find out for sure. ;)
If anyone knows any more of these Barnards of Chilmark whose descendants emigrated to the US, I'd love to hear!
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