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I thought this might interest you, Dorcas -- a new site from the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives: the Wiltshire Wills on-line catalogue.
http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php
There are 126 Barnards in the search results (a few of them Barnard as a given name -- I just did a general search for "Barnard").
None specify Chilmark or Mere as the place, and I'm going to have to get out Google Maps to find some of the places. And they're pretty much all too early for me to be able to do anything with them (my Benjamin and Mary, married in 1781, died in the early 1800s). But you might want to have a browse!
The documents themselves have to be obtained from the Archives for a fee for copies.
I thought I'd just include this here in case anyone else comes along looking for Wiltshire Barnards.
... Oh heck, I'm wrong! Page 2 of the results has a batch of Mere Barnards, and I missed one on page 1. (Mere Barnards -- we're not mere Barnards!)
And wrong again -- there are images on line!
How cool! Nothing Chilmark -- but Mere could be your Barnard wellspring.
1594
Barnard, Thomas
Clothman
Mere
1593 Barnard, Thomas
Clothman
Mere
(same one I suspect)
1684 Barnard, Richard
Yeoman
Mere
1685 Barnard, William, senior
Yeoman
Mere
1686
Barnard, Elizabeth
Widow
Mere
1690
Barnard, Henry
Yeoman
Mere
1724
Barnard, William
Yeoman
Mere
1705
Barnard, Thomas
Yeoman
Mere
1724
Barnard, William
Yeoman
Mere
I searched by location Chilmark and there are loads of wills from there, so you'd think that if there had been Barnards in Chilmark, someone would have shown up in the list. So I'm theorizing that yours were in Chilmark only briefly ... or your ancestor mentioned Chilmark because it was more recognizable than Mere or some such.
Location drift did happen -- my grx3 grfather was born in a tiny place in Devon called Tamerton Foliot, which was what he reported in the 1851 census; by 1861 it had become East Stonehouse, a part of Devonport, and by 1871 it was Devonport -- the farther he got from home geographically and the older he got, the more generalized his birthplace became.
I'm off to look at some wills! Let me know if you see anything useful looking.
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