Draft Pedigree of Barker of Norton & Ardron of Laughton en le Morthen, made 2013

Comments:
This is my first attempt to show the possible relationships of Thomas Barker (1758/59--1802) of Laughten en le Morthen and of Rotherham, Yorkshire.  I made it 21 February 2013.

Sources:
1.  The Parish registers of S. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812.  Transcribed by Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson with the permission of the Rev. W. G. Hall, M.A., (Vicar of Norton). Derby: Privately Printed, 1908.
2.  Parish Registers of St. James' Church, Norton, 1559-1948.  Church of England.  Manuscript/Manuscript on Fiche.
Publication: Sheffield: Sheffield Record Office, 1993.  PR 2/81-87, 89-96.
Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998.  FHL film #2113526 item 12.  FHL film #2113527 items 1-4.  [There are a number of FHL microfiche running from 6343575 to 6343584.]
3.  See GENUKI for a transcription of Laughton en le Morthen: Baptisms--1568-1949; Marriages 1562-1949; Burials 1561-1952.  http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Laughtonenlemorthen/
4.  Parish Registers for Laughton-en-le-Morthen, 1561-1938.  Church of England.   Manuscript/Manuscript on Fiche.
Publication: Sheffield: Sheffield Record Office, 1993.  PR 114/1-6, 8-10, 16-17.
Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998.  FHL film #2113528 items 15-17.  FHL film #2113529 item 1.  [There are a number of FHL microfiche running from 6344146 to 6344152.]

The William Ardron & Sarah Eyre family of Slade Hooton, Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire

Parents:

William Ardron (joiner & farmer of Slade Hooton, Laughten en le Morthen, Yorkshire)

born 1673 Slade Hooton

died 1719 Slade Hooton

married 21 Dec 1705 in Laughton en le Morthen

Sarah Eyre

chr. 29 May 1683 Laughton en le Morthen

died after 1719

Children:

1.  Joseph Ardron (chr. 13 Nov 1706 Laughton; bur 2 Dec 1706 Laughton)

2.  Samuel Ardron (chr. 22 Jun 1708 Laughton; bur 10 May 1793 Laughton), yeoman

3.  Ann Ardron (chr. 12 Feb 1709 Laughton; bur ????) married 26 Mar 1739 in Laughton to William Linley (born ca 1696; died 1780 Laughton), husbandman.  (Both the wills of Thomas Ardron (1771) and Samuel Ardron (1793) mention the Linleys, so this is an overlapping piece that appears to establish them as brothers.)  Their three known children are: 

• William Linley (bn. ca. 1741);
• Benjamin Linley (bn. ca. 1745), hosier;
• Elizabeth Linley (bn. ca. 1748) (of St. James Westminster) who married on 25 Jul 1770 at St. Leonards, Shoreditch, London Richard Crampton (of Middle Moorfields, London).  They had a son Charles Crampton (chr. 6 Feb 1772 in Laughton en le Morthen).

4.  Thomas Ardron (chr. 8 Jun 1712 Laughton; bur 11 Mar 1712/1713 Laughton)

5.  Joseph Ardron (chr. 8 Jun 1712; bur ????) married Sarah Battie.  They have three known children:

• William Ardron (chr 19 Jan 1744 East Peniston, Yorkshire)
• Mary Ardron (chr. 11 Apr 1747 East Peniston) married 5 Feb 1764 Penistone to John Culpin
• Samuel Ardron (chr. 20 Jan 1750 East Peniston) married 26 Aug 1776 Penistone Elizabeth Garthwait.  They have a son Joseph Ardron (chr. 26 Jun 1777 Penistone)

6.  Barbabus or Barnham Ardron (chr 8 Jul 1714 Laughton; aft 1786) (blacksmith) married 25 Dec 1738 Laughton to Sarah Roberts (bn. 1717/1718 Yorkshire; bur 14 Feb 1786 Laughton).  They have four known children:

• Thomas Ardron (bn. 1739 Laughton; bur 20 Nov 1797 Laughton) (blacksmith) married Anne Bramhall (bn. 1740 Yorkshire).  They had ten children.  See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ardron/thomasardroni.htm  [One of their sons, Thomas Ardron (1770-1832), had a son Barnabus Ardron (bn 19 May 1793 St. George Bloomsbury, Middlesex; died 1857 Sheffield) (cutler of Sheffield), who may be the man shown on ancestry.com who received a campaign medal for his service with "Robert Gardiners Troop Royal Horse Artillery" at the Battle of Waterloo.   I don't know if the man receiving the award is the same Barnabus.  Also, in the 1841 census for Sheffield goal is Barnabs Ardron, age 45, cutler, born London.]  
• Mary Ardron (chr 25 Dec 1743 Laughton)
• William Ardron (chr 29 Oct 1757 Laughton) (I see the big gap here.)
• Joseph Ardron (bn. ca. 1760; bur 23 Feb 1762 Laughton)

7.  Thomas Ardron (chr 10 May 1717 Laughton; died 1771 Laughton) Messenger in Ordinary to the King.  He left a will that I will post next on this blog.  He played a significant role under orders from Lord Halifax in what led to the important legal case, Entick v Carrington (1765) which concerned excessive executive power to search and seize property at will.

8.  Hannah Ardron (chr. 16 Feb 1719 Laughton; bur 27 Dec 1797 Laughton) married 21 Oct 1745 in Peak Forest, Derbyshire (kind of a Gretna Green type parish with relaxed marriage rules) to Aaron Barker (chr 5 Oct 1717 Norton, Derbyshire; bur 26 Aug 1801 Laughton) (scythesmith from Greenhill, Norton & later laborer from Laughton).  They had six children that I know of.  Only two--Mary Ludlam and Thomas Barker--are mentioned in the 1793 will of Samuel Ardron.

• Hannah Barker (chr 24 Jul 1748 Norton)  (She must have died young, but where?)
• Anne Barker (chr 26 Aug 1750 Norton)  (She must have died young, but where?)
• Mary Barker (chr 16 Mar 1755 Laughton; died 22 May 1816 Slade Hooton, Laughton) married 27 Dec 1774 Laughton to Edward Ludlam (bn. ca. 1745/50; died 26 Feb 1825 Rotherham).  They had eight children all christened in Laughton.
• Thomas Barker (chr 5 Jan 1759 Laughton; bur 15 May 1802 Rotherham) (plumber & glazier) (My 4x great-grandfather) married 16 Apr 1788 Rotherham to Elizabeth Wheelhouse (bn. 1759; bur 16 Jun 1814 Rotherham).  They had six children, all christened in Rotherham, including my 3x great-grandfather Samuel Barker (1791-1832) who I believe was probably named after his great-uncle Samuel Ardron (1708-1793).  
• Hannah Barker (chr 27 Dec 1759 Laughton)
• Ann Barker (chr. 27 Dec 1759 Laughton)

40 Years of Research! Samuel Barker's ancestral origins in Rotheram, Laughton en le Morthen and in Greenhill village (Norton, Derbyshire)

Samuel Barker Ancestry

Jane Daniell & Samuel Barker, 1821

I will try to review the basic evidence which I think justifies my Barker lineage from Samuel Barker (1791-1832) back to a group of sythesmith Barkers of Norton parish in Derbyshire (just outside Sheffield and across the Yorkshire border).  They lived in the Greenhill (Grennell) hamlet within Norton parish.  I will try to focus on the essential evidence and not at this time offer every twist and turn in the story of discovery or documents used.  It took forty years to find my deeper Barker roots, so I am very pleased to offer the basic research narrative.  Family resources take us back to Samuel Barker (1791-1832) and his wife Jane Daniell (1800-1833), but I did not know their birth, marriage and death years and places for several years.

The pertinent evidence begins with the entry in Francis Daniell’s diary for 3 January 1820 which indicates that Samuel Barker’s (1791-1832) sister Jane Barker died at Newton Abbot. 

      

A chain of fortuitous events led to the discovery of Jane’s tombstone at Wolborough (Newton Abbot).  This was one of the great finds, since it was really a needle in a haystack locating that tombstone in a crowded and overgrown churchyard.  The big breakthrough is that the tombstone indicates that she was from Rotherham, Yorkshire.  It gives her age as 26.  It reads: “Here lieth interr’d the Body of Miss JANE BARKER of Rotherham, Yorkshire who died 3 January 1820 Aged 26 Years.”  A Yorkshire origin for Samuel Barker matches my great-grandmother’s story that the Barkers were from Yorkshire.

 I was looking for a Jane Barker born/baptized in Rotherham about 1793, which fits for her age of 26 in January 1820.  Such a Jane was found in the christening records of All Saints, Rotherham.  She was born 10 Dec 1793 and christened 23 Feb 1794.

 From Francis Daniell’s diary we know that Samuel Barker (1791-1832) died on 9 September 1832 at Thames Bank, Pimlico, Middlesex, and was first buried on 17 September 1832 at St. Mark’s Kennington.  He was later exhumed and reburied at Clapham Chapel (now St. Paul’s Clapham) in South Lambeth, Surrey, where his wife Jane had been laid to rest.  Sam’s burial record at St. Mark’s indicates he was age 42 when he died.  I have not found evidence of reburial in Clapham other than the diary entry.  That puts his birth at 1790 or 1791.

  

Logic suggests that we look in Rotherham church records for a Jane Barker born/chr. about 1793, and her brother Samuel Barker born/chr. about 1790/1791.  Both these were found.  No other candidates that meet these criteria have been found in Rotherham.  Samuel Barker was born 6 Jan 1791 and christened 16 March 1791 at All Saints, also known as Rotherham Minster.

There are other children in this Barker family.  The next step was to fill in the details on the Barker children’s parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Barker.  Thomas Barker and Elizabeth Wheelhouse married on 16 April 1788 in Rotherham.  Recently I discovered their newspaper marriage announcement in the Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday, 22 April 1788.  The announcement indicates that Elizabeth Wheelhouse was from Rawcliffe, but after numerous hours of recent research on Wheelhouses from different Rawcliffe locations, I have not yet found her origins.

Fortunately, both the father Thomas Barker and his wife Elizabeth (née Wheelhouse) left wills, and the plumbing and glazing business seems to connect the family members from 1788 to 1815.  Thomas leaves a will dated 10 December 1801; he is buried 15 May 1802 in Rotherham; the will is proved October 1802.  The key clue in Thomas Barker’s will is his mention of his “undivided half part and share of in and to All that my Estate situate and being at Cowdale in the County of Derby . . . and which is now in the occupation of Thomas Wainwright his undertenants and assigns” which Thomas gives to his wife Elizabeth.

Elizabeth (née Wheelhouse) Barker’s will mentions the plumbing and glazing business and all their six children.  She mentions £500 of bequeaths, so it sounds like the business had prospered.  Her will is written 4 January 1810; she is buried 16 June 1814 in Rotherham; it is proved 7 January 1815.  She died at age 55 which gives us a birth about 1758/1759.  The following are a few sample segments from her will.

I did not find Thomas Barker’s birth/christening in Rotherham or nearby.  By the late 1980s my focus was on Cowdale, which is a small hamlet in the chapelry of Chelmorton, part of the parish of Bakewell.  Cowdale is a little east of Buxton, Derbyshire.  As luck would turn out, there was a Barker family at Cowdale from the mid-1500s to the early 1800s.  Indeed, I took a very close look at Thomas Barker (born 1731; died 1800 at Cowdale Hall) and at his family.   See my miscellaneous submission to Rootsweb’s WorldConnect Project: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ramstedtgj&id=I404.   I spent five years tracing this Barker family, corresponded with the current owner of Cowdale Hall, and put together a pretty extensive pedigree.  Thomas Barker (1731-1800) had a cousin William Barker (died 1800) living over at Staden (near Cowdale), and his son was a Samuel Barker (chr. 1764 Chelmorton parish).  There were Thomases and Samuels all over this pedigree, BUT I could never quite pin down ‘our’ Thomas Barker of Rotherham in this pedigree.  I felt pretty certain that Thomas Barker of Rotherham had to somehow fit into these Cowdale Barkers, but subsequent research indicates that he is not related to the Barkers of Cowdale and Staden.

I noticed in the Land Tax Assessments (LTA) of Cowdale that Thomas Wainwright’s occupancy was listed alternatively under Samuel Ardron and James Ardern as land owners, but by the mid-1790s the owner was listed as “late Ardern.”  The farm at Cowdale under Thomas Barker (1731-1800) was clearly a different piece of land from the one occupied by Thomas Wainwright.  There were obviously two Thomas Barkers.  The will of Thomas Barker (1731-1800) does not mention a son Thomas Barker (born circa 1750s) of Rotherham, nor any children for that matter.  Why wasn’t ‘my’ Thomas Barker listed as the owner of the land occupied by Thomas Wainwright, but rather the owner was “late Ardern”?  The following are some cropped portions from these Land Tax Assessments.

1780 Cowdale LTA: Samuel Ardron, proprietor, with Robert Longdon, occupier.  The Thomas Barker, occupier under John Goodwin, is the Thomas Barker (1731-1800) of Cowdale discussed above.  This is not Thomas Barker of Rotherham.

            Proprietor                                           Occupier

1785 Cowdale LTA: Robert Longdon occupies the land that Thomas Wainwright later occupies.  The Thomas Barker, owner and occupier, in this entry is Thomas Barker (1731-1800) of Cowdale.

                         Proprietor                                                   Occupier

1786 Cowdale LTA: Assuming that Samuel Ardron and James Ardern are closely related to each other, it looks like the Arderns/Ardrons now have Thomas Wainwright as their undertenant.  The Thomas Barker, owner and occupier, in this entry is Thomas Barker (1731-1800) of Cowdale, who appears unrelated to Thomas Barker of Rotherham.

                  Occupier                              Owner

1795 Cowdale LTA: Here it looks like James Ardern is now “late Arderns.”  We also see the other Thomas Barker acting as both owner and occupier.  (There is good reason to think that Samuel Ardron and James Ardern are connected as Samuel’s 1793 will implies, as discussed below.  Also, the assessment of 4 shillings and 1 ½ pence is consistent from 1780 to 1786, suggesting the same property.)  At present, I do not know just how Samuel and James connect.  I think Ardron and Ardern are interchangeable.)

                Occupiers                                         Owners

1800 Cowdale LTA: This should be the last year that Thomas Barker (1731-1800) is shown as both owner and occupier, but in fact he appear once more the next year, probably because his wife Eleanor lived to 1803. 

1801 LTA of Buxton area: It does not specifically indicate that this is Cowdale.  This assessment lists everyone in alphabetical order apparently for the entire Buxton area, so it is hard to be sure that we are specifically within Cowdale.  The Thomas Ardern, both owner and occupier, is interesting, but I don’t know who he is.  Perhaps the Arderns had landed interests beyond just Cowdale.  We see Thomas Barker, both proprietor and occupier with an exonerated assessment of 11 shillings, the same as in 1800, so I assume this still refers to his widow Eleanor (who died 1803).

1802 LTA for Buxton area (still alphabetical): We know that Thomas Barker of Rotherham dies in 1802, and that his undertenant is Thomas Wainwright, who is shown here.  Notice that it never specifically lists Thomas Barker (of Rotherham) but rather subsumes his estate under the estate of “late Arderns.”

1805 Cowdale LTA: After 1802, Thomas Barker of Rotherham’s heir is his wife Elizabeth.  By 1805, Eleanor Barker is dead, and the estate of her late husband Thomas Barker (1731-1800) of Cowdale is shown as exonerated at 11 shillings.  This Thomas and Eleanor’s heir must be the William Barker shown.  Notice that Thomas Wainwright is also the occupier under Thomas Pickford whose family were major landed proprietors in the area.  The 1806 LTA is the same as this one.

1807 Cowdale LTA: There are big changes between 1806 and 1807.  We can recognize the old holding of Thomas and Elizabeth Barker of Rotherham by its unexonerated assessment of 10 shillings, 4 pence.  Here in 1807 the owner is Thomas Pickford and the occupier is our familiar Thomas Wainwright.  Did Elizabeth Barker of Rotherham sell her interest in the Cowdale estate?  Did the Ardern estate finally settle, and was it sold off to Mr. Pickford?  The “Trustees of late T. Barker” refers to Thomas and Eleanor Barker of Cowdale, but now both of them are deceased and it is held under a trust.  We know this from the 11 shillings exonerated.  After 1807 the Pickfords dominate land ownership in the area, but Thomas Wainwright is the occupier at least until 1815 when I stopped looking.

I did some initial investigations looking for a Samuel Ardron and James Ardern in Buxton and the surrounding area.  It began to look like a tough slog was needed to trace all possible Arderns to see if any of them had a relative Thomas Barker of Rotherham.  That would be a lot of wills to look at.  There were many Arderns in Cheshire, and some of them had connections with the Buxton area of Derbyshire.  Fortunately, I was saved from going down yet another false trail in my efforts to find MY Barkers.

Recently, ancestry.com put up a database called Duties Paid for Apprentices’ Indentures.  There I found this entry dated 20 Oct 1774: “John Walton of Rotherham in Co. York, plumber & glazier, and Thomas Barker.”  Since the stamp duty could be paid any time from the initial transaction of the indenture to within one year after the apprentice completed his training, it looked like my Thomas Barker was born sometime from about 1752 to about 1760.  Age 14 was a common age for apprenticeships to be contracted.

 Master’s name; place of abodes                                     Trade or profession                 Apprentice’s Name

Just when it looked like I was going to have to follow the hardest course possible with the Arderns of Cheshire, some big breakthroughs started to happen.  One of the biggest rules of genealogy research is to do a ‘reasonably exhaustive search.’  That means that I should cast a wide net around Rotherham.  Since the Cowdale Barkers seemed to have been a false trail (one of many false trails I’ve followed in the Barker research), I figured that I should back-track to Rotherham.  I mapped out all parishes within a 10-mile radius around Rotherham and began searching for a Thomas Barker born from the 1740s to a little after 1760.  Soon I discovered a Thomas Barker who was christened in Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire, on 5 January 1759, the son of Aaron Barker.  (I have seen the original handwritten entry on microfilm, but have not scanned it yet.  This is from familysearch.org.)

 

Aaron is not such a common name, so maybe I could find more about Aaron Barker.  A few minutes later I got really excited when I found on the computer the marriage of Aaron Barker to Hannah Ardern on 21 October 1745 at Peak Forest chapel in Derbyshire.  This parish of Peak Forest was a peculiar parish where some marriage laws of the Established Church could be ignored, and therefore it attracted a lot of marriages from a wide region.  (I have seen the original writing but have not scanned it yet.  This is from Familysearch.org.)

More discoveries came in rapid succession.  Aaron Barker, sythesmith of Greenhill, Norton parish, Derbyshire, had a daughter Hannah Barker chr. 24 July 1748.  Later, Anne Barker was christened on 26 Aug 1750 to Aaron and Hannah of Greenhill in Norton parish.  I noticed that a Mary Barker was christened on 17 Mar 1755 in Laughton en le Morthen, and then twins Hannah and Ann Barker christened on 27 Dec 1759 in Laughton en le Morthen.  I assume that the first two daughters died young in a parish other than Norton and Laughton.

I learned that Aaron Barker was buried in Laughton en le Morten, Yorkshire on 26 Aug 1801, age 88.  Hannah, wife of Aaron, laborer, was buried 27 Dec 1797 in Laughton en le Morthen, age 77.  That puts her birth around 1720 and Aaron’s around 1713.  These dates work for a 1745 marriage.

Then I looked in the Laughton en le Morthen probate records.  It is a peculiar court that keeps its own wills on a parish level.  I noticed in the index several Ardrons, but no Arderns.  There was a Samuel Ardron, yeoman, of Slade Hooton, Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkhsire who left a will dated 12 April 1793.  He was christened in Laughton in 1708 and was buried there on 10 May 1793.  When I started looking at that will I began to see things that I have been seeking for 40 years.  Samuel Ardron’s will stated in part:

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Samuel Ardron of Slade Hooton in the Parish of Laughton en le Morthen in the County of York Yeoman.  . . .  Also I give and devise all that my Estate situate and being at Cowdale in the County of Derby with all Rights Members and appurtenances thereto belonging now in the Possession of Thomas Wainwright unto my nephew Thomas Barker and my said Niece Mary Ludlam their Heirs and assigns for ever To hold as Tenants in in Common and not as Joint Tenants Subject nevertheless to and charged and chargeable with the annuity or Yearly Rent of Six Pounds one Shilling and Sixpence hereinafter mentioned And I do hereby give grant and devise unto my Sister Hannah Barker for and during the Term of her Natural Life one annuity or clear Yearly Rent or Sum of Six Pounds one Shilling and sixpence of Lawfull money of Great Britain free from all Taxes and other Deductions parliamentary or otherwise to be Issuing and payable out of my said Estate situate at Cowdale aforesaid and to be paid to her Weekly after the Rate of Two Shillings and Fourpence a week with all legal Power of Distress in Case of non payment thereof and her Receipt shall from Time to Time be a sufficient Discharge for the same which shall not be subject to the Control or intermeddling of her Husband, Also I give and bequeath To my Nephew Thomas Barker my Silver Cup, To my Niece Mary Ludlam my Silver Tankard Two Silver Table Spoons and also my Bed Bedding and Linens . . . [and others] five pounds.

Here was a perfect overlap at Cowdale between Samuel Ardron, the Cowdale Land Tax Assessments, the undertenant Thomas Wainwright, Thomas Barker of Rotherham, Hannah (née Ardron) Barker, and the sister Mary (née Barker) Ludlam.  That day, 26 October 2012 at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I sat stunned at the microfilm reader for quite a while.  Forty years of looking and hoping, and here was the evidence!

Within a very short time I then assembled a pedigree for Hannah Ardron at Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire, and Aaron Barker at Greenhill in Norton, Derbyshire.  Hannah’s age of 77 in 1797 fits perfectly for her christening on 16 Feb 1719/1720 in Laughton.  She and several siblings were the children of William Ardron (1673-1719) (joiner & farmer, of Slade Hooton, Laughton en le Morthen) and Sarah Eyre (1683-     ).  Right now I have the Ardrons back to the 1640s, and have benefitted from the efforts of others who submitted their trees online.

I’m not sure that I’m done with Cowdale, since the connection there is now moved back earlier in time.  What in the world was the Ardron business in Cowdale, which is so far from Laughton?  (Clue: I’m thinking the Rowland Eyre family may have something to do with it for reasons that I won’t go into right now.  There may be an earlier trust or subdivision of property that brought it into the hands of the Ardrons.)

Recently I discovered clues in the will of Hannah’s brother, Thomas Ardron, Gentleman (of Slade Hooton and London) that led me to his extremely interesting, though infamous role in English legal history.  One of the central rights of Englishmen, as well as the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, comes partially as a reaction to Thomas Ardron’s service as ‘Messenger in Ordinary’ to the king.  I don’t have time to write about it now, but read about the history of search and seizure, and in particular the details of the 1765 case of Entick v Carrington.  This is a seminal trial in English law that put limits on the scope of executive authority.  It appears that Thomas was a ‘thug’ under orders from Lord Halifax, and ultimately from the king, to search and seize evidence from John Entick.  It is a good story.

It appears to me that the Ardrons in the 1600s and 1700s were fairly prosperous, but by the 1800s may not have held onto this status.  The blacksmith trade survived among the Ardrons from the 1600s to the 1800s, along with land ownership in earlier times.

Aaron Barker’s age is given as 88 in 1801, which suggests a birth about 1713.  We find Aaron Barker christened in Norton on 5 Oct 1717, the son of John and Anna Barker, of Greenhill.  We are just a couple years off, which seems typical of age estimates in this time period.  I don’t see any other Aaron Barkers who could be in a candidate pool, and I know that ‘my’ Aaron Barker was a sythesmith and had baptized his first two children in Norton parish.  There are at least nine children in Aaron’s family, and through his brother Moses Barker (1719-1760) there may be a line of Barker descentants that might take us to the present.

It looks like for at least 300 years these Barkers were scythesmiths which is a common occupation in Norton and surrounding areas.  The cutlery and metal working arts were prevalent around Sheffield.  I cannot tell whether they owned, rented, or leased any land, but indications suggest to me that scythesmiths were skilled workers though on the lower end of the social scale.  One of my likely early Barkers was a husbandman which suggests that he may have had a copyhold to some land on the manor.  The Barker line looks well-documented to a John Barker born about 1620, and tentatively back to Andrew Barker who was born about the 1540s.  Some of the wives’ collateral lines look ‘provable’ back to about 1530.  There are cutlers (one from Sheffield), lead workers, husbandmen, horse-shoers, and a miner on these collateral lines.  They likely wore more than one hat in order to provide for their families.  Here it is on Rootsweb’s WorldConnect project: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gregramstedt&id=I55

It is interesting to see how families rise and fall in the social strata of their times.  Eldest sons often inherited property while younger ones had to fend for themselves in the army, church, law or trade.  The occupational lines of descent from daughters were largely determined by the kinds of people they married.  Some families could be upwardly mobile from generation to generation, and others the opposite.  In our early lineage I think I discern a repeated pattern of men marrying women of social status a little higher than their own.

It looks to me that when Aaron Barker married in Peak Forest to Hannah Ardron, he perhaps was marrying above his own family’s background.  The Ardrons were yeoman landowners and blacksmiths.  It was common for landed people to supplement their income with earnings from a trade.  That may be why they married in Peak Forest, and why Samuel Ardron seemed determined in his will to protect Hannah’s income from the Cowdale trusteeship from her husband Aaron who was listed as a laborer in 1797 and 1801.  At that time, the property of married women automatically became the property of their husband, and Samuel Ardron clearly wanted the rent from his Cowdale property to be for his sister’s benefit.  Concerning Peak Forest chapel, from Wikipedia we learn: “Until an Act of Parliament was passed in 1804 its minister was able to perform marriages without the need for reading the banns, and the village was known as the Gretna Green of Derbyshire.”  Also, “Gretna Green was a village in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings.”  I could be wrong about possible misgivings between the Ardrons and Aaron Barker, since Aaron did move with his family into the Ardron parish of Laughton en le Morthen rather than his own home parish of Norton.  There may have been more opportunity for Aaron in Laughton en le Morthen.

Later generations of Barkers from Norton stayed in the metal trades.  Mary (née Barker) Ludlam’s descendants appear to have largely stayed in trade.  Hannah’s brother Barabus aka Barnham Ardron (born 1714) (who didn’t seem to get any land from his childless brothers Samuel and Thomas) was a blacksmith as were most of his descendants.  Within a couple generations of him are tailors and cutlers in addition to blacksmiths.  One of the descendants, Barnabus Ardron (1793-1857), cutler of Sheffield, looks like he may have received a medal for service at the Battle of Waterloo, but I’m not absolutely positive of the identity yet.

It looks like it was a good thing for Aaron and Hannah Barker to apprentice their son Thomas Barker (1759-1802) in the plumber and glazier trade in Rotherham in 1774.  Thomas and his family seem to have prospered, and after both he and Elizabeth were gone by 1815, their surviving children had some funds in which to try to establish themselves in life.  I don’t know about the family background of Elizabeth Wheelhouse as this still eludes me, but some of the Wheelhouses that have Rawcliffe connections look rather prosperous, or at least seem to marry well.  Under the will of Elizabeth Barker, our Samuel Barker (1791-1832) set out in the world with £140, as did his sister Jane Barker with £160.  According to the currency converter at The National Archives, £140 in 1820 would have the same spending power as £5,868.80 in 2005.

Samuel Barker (1791-1832) and his sister Jane Barker (1793-1820) find their way into Devon, and Francis Daniell first mentions Samuel when he hires him to install a kitchen at the Daniell home known as Knowle in Bovey Tracey, Devon.  Working with kitchen fixtures sounds to me like a man with a background in trade, especially one involving some plumbing skills.  I suspect that Samuel was very enterprising and carried himself well.  In 1819 Samuel Barker and his partner Mr. Heelis sold their stock in Devon, and Samuel moved to London where he formed a new partnership and established himself as an iron merchant.  When Francis Daniell’s daughter Jane and Samuel Barker began to court each other, Francis’s diary reveals no sense of concern with Samuel’s background.  Francis Daniell is a member of the local gentry with somewhat flamboyant habits, and he is the Lord of the Manor of Wreyland.  This is his oldest daughter and the first marriage of any of his children.  It appears to be a fortuitous marriage for Samuel Barker, and I think he was talented, ambitious, and confident (judging by his strong signature on his marriage record in 1821).  Six months after they marry, Francis Daniell raises money ­from South Harton farm in Lustleigh and gives £929 to his son-in-law Samuel to establish himself as a partner in the iron and steel business in Pimlico, Middlesex.   I wonder if Francis was also looking at it as an investment which perhaps could help him with his own debts, which were considerable by this time.

For a while Samuel Barker seems to be doing very well with the Thames Bank Iron Works, but the Barker v Birch case in Chancery reveals a highly disputed end to his business with either near bankruptcy or his estate swindled by one of his partners, Charles Birch (1799-1871).  It all depends on which side of the case you believe.  Sam and Jane’s children were left orphans to be raised by aunts and their grandfather Francis, who himself was in financial straits by the late 1830s and 1840s.  The lawsuit was undertaken on behalf of the Barker children to try to secure a greater income to provide for them, but the case seems to have been abandoned after nearly twenty years of litigation.  The surviving Barker children all found careers in India, and I suspect Francis’s cousin James Daniell (1773-1839), one of the directors of the East India Company until 1825, may have used his influence to help with their placement.  Certainly, Francis had previously used his family connections to get his own sons positions in the East India Company civil service, military and navy.

The family did what they could to help the rising generation advance in the world, and the marriage between William Henry Barker (1828-1913), son of Samuel and Jane, and his cousin Mary Harris (1831-1879) brought a highly beneficial marriage settlement.  Real wealth seems to derive from land at this time, and the Harrises had Hawkmore from which Mary Harris had claim under her father’s will.  Again we see men marrying woman of greater means and sometimes higher social standing than themselves.  Of course, Lieut. William Henry Barker (EIC navy) would then on his own account hold positions of responsibility as manager of the Woodside Ferry across the Mersey, manager of the White Star Line, and Secretary of the Liverpool Underwriters’ Association.  In each generation, beginning the 1700s, we see enterprising and talented men forming beneficial marriages, which was very common for members of the gentry and aspiring upper middle class.  These cousin marriages were not chance romances, but a strategy of wealth preservation by the older folks to assist their younger kin to get on in the world, and this pattern is very common among the Harrises, Barkers, Daniells and their kin.

William Henry Barker & Mary Harris, 1857

I’ve wondered what the natural connection is between plumbers and glaziers, since they seem to go together.  Plumbers worked with lead, and window glass was held in place with lead beading.  The lead-working occupation may also help explain why Thomas Barker (1758/59-1802) only lived to age 43, and why Samuel Barker (1791-1832) only lived to age 41.  I’m sure there are other reasons too.

I plan to follow up on the Barker story in England this summer.  One of my prime endeavors will be to study the Chancery Court documents in the Barker v Birch and Wills v Birch cases.  There are also three or four other Chancery Court cases, particularly concerning the Mantells and Daniells, that I hope to look at in The National Archives (TNA).

I will try again to find Sam and Jane’s graves at Clapham Chapel (now St. Paul’s) in South Lambeth.  I want to stand where the Thames Bank Iron Works was located at Pimlico, and maybe find some more history of the place in the Westminster Archives.  Since Sam’s sister Jane (died 3 Jan 1820) was the key to so much of this story, I feel like I should try to find her gravestone again in Wolborough, and stand there and think of the family gathered around her final resting place back in January 1820.  I always felt bad that she died at age 26.  I guess I should pay homage to her.

London Steel Works (aka, Thames Bank Iron Works)
Greenwood's 1830 Map

The Daniells (of St. Paul’s Canterbury and of Hastingleigh) and Mantells (of Horton Priory, Kent) will be my focus in Canterbury.  Because of the family’s strong connection with the Royal Navy, I’ve planned for a full day at Portsmouth.  I have the old metal sea chest of Commander Henry Harris (1851-1893) of Bovey Tracey and some of his original naval papers.  Also, I have been fascinated with the naval career of my ancestor Captain William Mantell, RN (1713-1765) of H.M.S. Centurion who played a significant role on the stage of world history in the 1750s.   During the trip we will be in New Windsor, Berkshire, where Francis Daniell Sr. (1749-1793) was a young attorney in the 1770s after serving his legal apprenticeship which began in 1765 in Windsor.  He practiced in offices on the street immediately adjacent the castle.

Barker wills near Rotherham, Yorkshire

[Sorry, the formatting as seen in my Blogger editor did not carry over properly from Word 2010.  I'm not sure how to fix it, but I didn't want to wait any longer before putting this out.  Call it a draft.--Greg]

Barker wills within about 10 miles of Rotherham, Yorkshire

Prerogative & Exchequer Court of York

Index from Origins.net index, 1688-1858

August to October 2012

By Greg Ramstedt

[I am doing an area search around Rotherham to see if there is any trace of the family from which Thomas Barker (ca. 1760—1802), plumber and glazier of Rotherham may have come.  I am also hoping to find the family that Isaac Barker (      --1809), butcher, of Rotherham originated.  I don’t know if Thomas and Isaac could be brothers, but they were joint assessors with the Land Tax Assessments about 1800.  Generally, I am trying to find the wills of all those Barkers who lived within ten miles of Rotherham.  There are a few additional locations a bit further afield that will also be looked at.—Greg Ramstedt, 15 Aug 2012]

[On Friday, 26 October 2012 I finally found my Barker origins after 40 years of searching.  I’ll write about it later. –GJR]

BARKER, AARON of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1825, FEB Exchequer Will vol.171, f. (FHL film 99791)

[Can’t find.  I searched all names in January and February and part of March.  The film 99791 goes from January to June 1825.  I checked the original index on GS film 99450 and found him.  The reference given is “A. 200” so I assume this is actually an administration, if that is what the A. stands for.]  [The original index says that it is an A. 200 in Feb. 1825.]

BARKER, ALEXANDER of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1849, JAN Prerogative Will vol.220, f.155 (FHL film 99842/3)

                *Alexander Barker of Bent’s Green, township of Ecclesall Bierlow, in parish of Sheffield, yeoman.

                *3 freehold closes at Dore in Dronfield, Derby.

                *my daughter Frances, the wife of John Makinson the yuounger of Bents Green

                *grandson Alexander, the son of his daughter Frances; this grandson Alexander has sisters

                *my daughter Sarah, the wife of Ebenezer Fyz(sp?—The first letter is an F, but it is in a  dark area of the film)

                *my daughter Elizabeth

                *written 19 March 1847; proved 17 Jan. 1749

BARKER, ALEXANDER of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1797, JUL Exchequer Admon vol.141, f.  (FHL film 99758)

                This is an administration and I don’t see any administrations or Alexander Barker on this film.

BARKER, ANN of AUGHTON, YORKSHIRE 1749, MAR Exchequer Will vol.92, f.132 (FHL film 99713)

                [Aston cum Aughton, Yorks. is near Rotherham.]

                *Ann Barker is a widow.

                *her son Thomas Barker

                *her daughter Mary Long

                *her son-in-law John Long

                *written 14 Apr 1748; proved 25 March 1749

BARKER, ANNE of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1821, AUG Exchequer Will vol.166, f.442 (FHL film 99785)

                *proved 10 Aug. 1821; written 7 March 1819

                *Anne Barker is a widow of Sheffield

                *my niece Mrs. Middleton of Sheffield

                *My friend Mrs. Brownell of Newfield House near Sheffield

                *my niece Mrs. Stanley of Tuisley, York

                *my niece Mrs. Sterndale of Sheffield

                *my friend Mrs. Wilkinson of Sheffield

                *my son Thomas Barker

                *executor is Peter Brownell of Newfield House, Esquire

                *Codicil dated 11 July 1821 of Ann Barker of Norfolk Street, Sheffield

                                *mentions the ladies above and also now Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Brittain, Miss Hellen Britain

                                *my servant Ann Stephenson

                                *Miss Sterndale, Mrs. Wilson of Worksop, Miss Greaves, Miss Ann Greaves

BARKER, ANTHONY of BAWTRY, YORKSHIRE 1804, JUL Prerogative Will vol.148, f.285 (FHL film 99765)

                [Bawtry in Tinsley is next to Rotherham.]

                *Anthony Barker is listed as ‘Esquire.’  This is a good sized will.

                *will written 24 Dec 1803

*refers to an indenture of lease related to a marriage settlement between his eldest son Samuel Barker and Elizabeth Toller. 

                *Edward Brown of Stamford, Lincoln Esquire

                *Joseph Marris of Bawtry Streethouses in parish of Harworth, Notts. Gent.

                *my son John Barker

                *property in settlement is Bell Inn, in Barnby Moor, in parish of Blyth,, Notts.

*my dear wife Mary Barker

*my son-in-law Mr. Robert Duckle

*my daughter Ann, wife of Mr. Robinson

*property at Welham in Clarbrough in Notts.

*my grandson Charles Turner

*my nephew William Baker

*to John Allen, my wife’s brother

*Mrs. Joseph Blythman of Bawtry

*mentions Mrs. Katherine Cheslyn and her will dated 24 April 1778 concerning property at Lambley, Notts., and Claxton otherwise Long Clawson, Leicester.

*John Barker and Thomas Barker are made joint executors

BARKER, CATHERINE of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1824, JAN Exchequer Will vol.169, f.28 (FHL film 99789)

                *will proved 24 Jan. 1824 and written 27 April 1819

                *Catherine is a widow.

                *my friends Ephraim Billam of Eckington, Derby, nail manufacturer & Thomas Harrison of Sheffield, cutler.

                *my two children, Mary, wife of Thomas Harrison, and Joseph Barker

BARKER, EDWARD of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1833, MAR Prerogative Will vol.187, f.137 (FHL film 99807)

                *will proved 13 March 1833

                *my wife Hannah Barker

                *my brother James Barker

                *dated 21 July 1832 in presence of Thomas Rawson Barker

                *Affidavit dated 7 March 1833

                                *James Barker of Sheffield, white lead manufacturer

                                *Thomas Rawson Barker of the same, merchants clerk.  Thomas’s father is John Barker.

BARKER, ELIZ of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1752, SEP Prerogative Admon vol.95, f.196 (FHL film 99714)

                (This is an administration according to the index, but it actually is a will.)

                *written 17 Aug 1749; proved Sept 1752

                *my niece Mary Hardwick

                *my nephew William Hardwick

                *to the poor of Drax

                *my brother Philip Barker

                *my niece Ann __________ (4 letters, but I can’t read them)

                *my brother and sister William Hardwick and his wife Mary Hardwick

BARKER, ELIZABETH of ROTHERHAM, YORKSHIRE 1815, JAN Exchequer Will vol.159, f.91 (FHL film 99777)

[This is my ancestor, the mother of Samuel Barker (1791-1832) of Rotherham, Yorkshire, and South Lambeth, Surrey, Iron Merchant.  Her husband is Thomas Barker who died in 1802 and left a will.  See below.]

*written 4 Jan 1810; proved 7 Jan 1815

*executors for her children: James Pears of Rotherham, currier; Thomas Law of the same, draper.

*She desire that her son John Barker, who is not yet 21 in 1810, “carry on the trade or Business of a Plumber and Glazier which I now carry on.”

*She gives to her “son Samuel Barker my Silver Pint, one Silver Table Spoon and three Silver Tea spoons.”

*To her “Daughter Jane Barker, one of my best Beds Bedstocks, Bedding and furniture thereto belonging, a Pair of mahogany Drawers, Seven Mahogany Chairs, and Carpet in the Dining Room, my best sett of China, one silver Table Spoon and six Silver Tea Spoons.”

*To “my son William Barker, one Silver table spoon and three Silver Tea Spoons.”

*Her trustees are to “receive the Interest of the sum of five Hundred pounds which I have owing me upon Security of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal” and use the money to educate all of her children until they are age 21.

*When Samuel shall reach age 21, he is to be given £140 of the £500.

*The interest of the residue of the said £500 is to pay for the maintenance and education of her children Jane and William Barker until they are 21.  

*When Jane is 21, she is to receive £160 of the residue of the £500. 

*Then when William is 21, he is to get whatever remains of the residue of the £500.

BARKER, ELIZABETH MARTIN of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1837, JUN Prerogative Admon vol.195, f. (FHL film 99815)

                (This is an administration, and these are not on this microfilm.)

BARKER, ELIZTH of WHITWELL, YORKSHIRE 1800, NOV Prerogative Will vol.144, f.382 (FHL film 99761)

                (This print of this will is very faded and hard to read.)

                *Elizabeth Barker of Whitwell, near Malton, Yorks., widow

                *proved Nov. 1800; written 22 June 1800.

                *property in Tollerton, Yorks., to Benjamin Lumley of Stockton, Durham, Esq.

                *to Benjamin Taylor of Whitwell, Gent.

                *to John Taylor of Stockton, Gent.

                *to James Taylor of London, grocer

                *to Sarah Fearby, wife of John Fearby of Poppleton Lodge, York. Farmer

                *to John Barker of Frayton in parish of Ho?ringham, farmer

                *to my daughter Ann Taylor of Whitwel

                *Benjamin Lumley has a son Benjamin Lumley

                *Codicil dated 16 Aug. 1800

                                *revokes portion to John Barker of Frayton in parish of Hovingham, farmer.

BARKER, ELLEN of DONCASTER, YORKSHIRE 1741, JUL Exchequer Admon, Will vol.87, f.432 (FHL film 99708)

                *written 14 Dec 1734; proved 18 July 1741

                *widow of Doncaster, Yorks.

                *property in French Gate, Doncaster

                *my son William Wainman, ececutor

                *my grandchildren Elizabeth Herring, Elizabeth Barker, Sarah Barker, Mary Wainman

                *my son John Wainman

BARKER, ESTHER of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1784, JUN Exchequer Will vol.128, f.206 (FHL film 99745)

                [Esther is the widow of Samuel Barker, cutler, of Sheffield whose will is proved in 1781.]

                *written 8 Jun 1784

                *Dwelling houses at Hexley in parish of Sheffield

                *closes of land in occupation of John Bingham, Mrs. Allott and Thomas Hallam

                *executors are Anthony Hufton and Josephus Parkin

                *kinfolk: John Ellison, Hannah Epworth, Mary Dakin, Sarah Haley, Samuel Ellison and Mary Creswick

BARKER, FRANCES of BAKEWELL, YORKSHIRE 1813, SEP Prerogative Will vol.157, f.440 (FHL film 99774)

                *written 11 Apr 1812; proved 13 Sept 1813

                *wife of George Barker, heretofore of Bakewell, Derbyshire, but now of Darley Hall, Derbyshire, Esquire

*By Bridget Kirkby’s will dated 4 Jan 1790 who provided for her niece Frances the wife of George Barker of Bakewell, Derby, Esq. …

*to her [Bridget’s] nephew Rev. John Kirby, Rector of Gotham, Notts. & Rev. George Bossley, Vicar of Chesterfield, Derby.

*Bridget died soon thereafter and Sarah Kirby is also dead.

                *her (Frances’s) son William Barker, not yet 21

                *her daughter Harriet Barker

BARKER, FRANCES of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1846, SEP Prerogative Will vol.214, f.494 (FHL film 99834)

                *proved 16 Sept. 1846; written 29 July 1845

                *Frances Barker, spinster, late of Great Longstone, Derby, but now of Spital Hill, Sheffield

                *my sister Sarah Marks

                *my brother Alexander Barker

                *my freehold called Knotlow in Moneyash, Derbyshire.

                *my sister Harriot Green; mentions Joseph Green

                *my sister Eleanor Hutchinson

                *my niece Sarah Maria Green

                *my cousin John Barker of Burre House near Bakewell, Derby, Esq.

BARKER, FRANCES of DARLEY HALL, DERBYSHIRE 1813, SEP Prerogative Will vol.157, f.    (FHL film 99774)

                [This is the same person listed above as Barker, Frances of Bakewell, 1813, Sept.]            

BARKER, GEORGE of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1834, APR Exchequer Will vol.189, f.225 (FHL film 99809)

(The reference takes you to the will of William Barker of Stokesley, Yorkshire, flax dresser.  There is no will of a George Barker in the pages around this.  The will was written 29 Nov. 1834.  William’s wife is Lydia.  William has a relative John Barker of Easley Firs.  William’s brother is John Barker of Norton, Durham.)

BARKER, GEORGE of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1820, APR Prerogative Will vol.164, f.410 (FHL film 99783)

                *proved 3 April 1820; written 10 April 1814

                *of Hensall in parish of Snaith

                *my youngest son Robert Barker gets land in Hensall

                *my eldest son George Barker

                *second son Nicholas Barker

                *my eldest daughter Christiana Barker

                *my youngest daughter Grace Barker

BARKER, GEORGE of HANDSWORTH, YORKSHIRE 1825, AUG Prerogative Will vol.172, f.48 (FHL film 99792)

                *proved 6 Aug 1825; written 28 Nov 1812

                *of Gleadless in township of Handsworth, Yorks.

                *wife is Mary

                *John Barker Jr. of Richmond in parish of Handsworth, butcher & Joseph Gooddine of Sheffield Park, butcher

                *Codicil dated 28 Jan 1814

                                *smithy tools given to George

                                *my daughter Mary

                                *appoints Benjamin Barker of Birby

BARKER, GEORGE of WORKSOP, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1746, OCT Exchequer Admon vol.91, f. (FHL film 99712)

                (This is an administration.  I looked at the microfilm and I don’t see admons included.)

BARKER, GRACE of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1816, MAR Exchequer Will vol.160, f.126 (FHL film 99779)

                *proved 25 March 1816; written 17 May 1800

                *Grace is of Park Head in parish of Sheffield

                *widow

                *my eldest son John Barker

                *my son Alexander Barker

                *my daughter Sarah, wife of Samuel Dungworth

                *my son Joseph Barker, who is the executor

BARKER, HANNAH of NORTON, YORKSHIRE 1849, JAN Prerogative Will vol.220, f.175 (FHL film 99843)

                *proved 29 Jan 1849; written 4 Nov 1844

                *Hannah is a widow of Whitwall House in the parish of Norton, Yorkshire

                *Charles Robinson of City of York, druggist & John Exley of New Malton, York, Doctor of Medicine, executors

                *my granddaughters Mary Ann Farrer and Elizabeth Scott

                *my grandson John Scott

                *Codicil dated 8 May 1846

BARKER, HARRIET of DARFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1856, APR Exchequer Will vol.240A, f.33r (FHL film 99871)

                *proved 16 Apr 1856; written 26 Mar 1849

                *Harriet, widow, late of Etherthorpe but now of Darfield Bridge, both in Darfield, Yorks.

                *my son Samuel Barker, executor

                *daughter Elizabeth Barker

                *daughter Mary Ann Ma???in (could be Madsen)

                *her copyhold estate near Temple Hirst, near Selby, Yorkshire.

BARKER, HENRY of CARLETON, YORKSHIRE 10 Dec 1698 Exchequer (Rydall) Will 62/137 (FHL film 99647)

                *written 29 Aug 1698

                *husbandman

                *John Barker of Carleton my nephew

                *to James Barker my brother gets my land in Cestegain called Kilnegarth which is occupied by Nicholas Clay.

                *to Oswould Barker my nephew

                *to Alice Barker my niece

                *to Anne Barker my niece

                *to Ellin Gulby

                *to Jane Sulby

                *to James Barker’s children: John, James, Elizabeth, Em Barker

                *to John Barker of Carleton, my nephew

                *James Barker of Afterside (not sure of first letter), my brother.

BARKER, JAMES of YORKSHIRE 1750, APR Exchequer Will vol.94, f.  (FHL film 99714)

[The index refers to James Barker the son of John Barker the elder of Nawton in Kirkdale parish.  Indeed, this James is referred to in his father’s will which is on folio 24.  The index GS number is 99447.]

BARKER, JANE of BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE 1849, APR Prerogative Will vol.220, f.758 (FHL film 99843)

                *written 13 Feb 1844; proved 2 Apr 1849

                *spinster

                *nephews: Thomas Alfred Barker MD, Francis Barker of Bakewell Esq.

                *my sister Sarah Barker

                *nephews John Henry Barker, Charles Barker and Thomas Rawson Barker

                *my cousin Miss Henrietta Elizabeth Barker

                *my goddaughter Miss Ann Toplis Swettenham

                *my great niece Helen Barker

                *my great nephew John Edward Barker

                *to Mrs. Edward Barker, widow of my late nephew Mr. Edward Barker, deceased

*three nieces Elizabeth, Ann, and Emma Jane Barker, the three unmarried daughters of my late brother John Barker

*to Richard Rose of Ailsbury, Bucks., Gent.

*to my niece Frances Rose, wife of Richard Rose

*witness: J. Barker, Sol. of Burre House Bakewell

*codicil dated 13 June 1845

BARKER, JESSE of CONISBROUGH, YORKSHIRE 1837, SEP Exchequer Will vol.196, f.231 (FHL film 99816)

                *written 14 Oct 1828; proved 7 Sept 1837

                *property in Mexborough, Yorks.

                *daughters Hannah & Elizabeth Barker

                *two sons David and Samuel Barker

                *my brother Peter Barker

                *my son Samuel Barker has married one of the daughters of my brother Peter Barker

*my friends John Bakewell of Sheffield, printer and stationer & George Sanderson of Doncaster, yeoman, executors

*Codicil dated 11 May 1833

                *my son David died 19 March 1831

                *my daughter Hannah, wife of David Cowan

                *new executors James Dixon of Sheffield, merchant & Rev. Thomas Allen of same place

*my four grandchildren Jesse Davidson Barker, Jane Barker, Henry Martin Barker and David Cowan Barker, children of David Barker

*my wife Ann Barker

BARKER, JOHN of EDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE 1856, FEB Exchequer Will vol.239A or B, f.127r (FHL film 99870)

                *written 7 Feb 1855; proved 26 Feb 1856

                *farmer of Cockill, Edlington, Yorks.

                *wife is Mary Barker

                *sons John Barker and Henry Barker and David Wilson Barker

                *Sarah wife of Thomas Bingham

                *my daughter Mary wife of Henry Chester

BARKER, JOHN of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1856, JUL Prerogative Will vol.241, f.5v (FHL film 99872)

                *written 28 Apr 1856; proved 12 July 1856

                *wine and spirit merchant

                *my dear wife Louisa Elizabeth Barker

BARKER, JOHN of BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE 1842, APR Exchequer Will vol.205, f.206 (FHL film 99825)

                *written 4 Nov 1840; proved 9 Apr 1842

                *lead merchant

                *my sons James Barker and Thomas Rawson Barker

                *my dear wife Sarah Barker

                *my four daughters Elizabeth, Ann, Frances Rose, and Emma Jane Barker

                *requests Duke of Rutland to admit my son James Barker to Rutland’s Smelting Works in Alport.

BARKER, JOHN of HANDSWORTH, YORKSHIRE 1837, SEP Prerogative Will vol.196, f.168 (FHL film 99816)

                *written 4 Apr 1814; proved 4 Sept 1837

                *butcher of Richmond in parish of Handsworthy

                *my brother-in-law Henry Genn of Tinsley, Yorks., butcher

                *my sons John Barker and James Barker

                *my dear wife Elizabeth

                *my children Joseph, Henry, Thomas Samuel, and Elizabeth

                *additional children are John, James, Mary wife of John Vickers

*Affidavit dated 13 Aug 1837 by David Toyne of Crooke Moor in Sheffield butcher & David Deakin of Attercliffe in Sheffield, butcher, and Charles Marsden who swore additional testimony.

BARKER, JOHN of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1809, DEC Exchequer Curation vol.153, f. (FHL film 99770)

[The index at the beginning lists a John Barker of Fullwood in Sheffield.  There are two images of this index page, the first much lighter than the second.  Unfortunately, the page or folio number is not readable on either one of them.  A couple December 1809 areas are scattered throughout the microfilm.  I looked in each other them and did not find John of Fullwood.  In those December sections I went name by name.  I looked up curation.  Probate courts issued tuition and curation bonds that were filed with wills and administrations.  A guardian of a minor child posted these bonds.  Younger children would require the tuition bonds, and older children the curation bonds.  From www.mlfhs.org.uk/Infobase/Begin-Wills.php I see that testators might require a bond guarantee from the person they are appointing to education their children.  Curations were for children above age 14.  Tutors took out tuition bonds and curators took out curation bonds.  Together these are called Guardianship Bonds.  See also https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Guardianship_Bonds_in_England_and_Wales]

BARKER, JOHN of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1802, DEC Prerogative Will vol.146, f.371 (FHL film 99763)

                *written 24 Sep 1802; proved Dec 1802

                *of Rawcliffe in York, Gent.

                *my dear wife Hannah Barker

                *dwelling house in Bell Lane in Rawcliffe

*my brothers William Barker, Richard Barker and sister Elizabeth wife of William Collison of Kingston Upon Hull, master mariner

*my late sister Mary wife of Richard Hirst of Kingston Upon Hull, iron monger.  Mary has two sons.

BARKER, JOHN of KIRKBY OVER CARR, YORKSHIRE 1813, DEC Exchequer Admon vol.157, f. (FHL film 99774)

                [Carr in Ecclesfield  & Carr in Laughton en le Marthen]

                [This is an administration, and therefore not found on this microfilm of wills.]

BARKER, JOHN of THORPE SALVIN, YORKSHIRE 1732, FEB Prerogative Will vol.82, f.233 (FHL film 99702)

                *written 10 Sept 1731; proved 17 Feb 1732

                *Gent.

*to friends Thomas Smith of Kiveton & John Machon of Morthing als Morthren & William Lesson of Thorp Salvin, executors

*rents of Bolsover

*loving wife Mary

*my sons Robert, John, Peter and Thomas, and my daughter Mary; they are not yet 21

BARKER, JOHN of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1854, DEC Prerogative Will vol.234, f.308 (FHL film 99865)

                *written 16 May 1854; proved 9 Dec 1854

                *of Grimesthorpe in parish of Sheffield, farmer

                *wife Elizabeth

                *sons Thomas Pearson Barker and William Barker, executors

*my daughters Martha wife of Mr. Henry Mabson of Ecclesfield, Yorks., butcher and farmer, & Catherine wife of Mr. Thomas Colver of Sheffield, grocer, & Emily wife of Mr. Joseph Laxley, storekeeper near Springfield, Hamilton County, Ohio, & Elizabeth wife of Mr. Edward Colver of Grimestorpe, farmer

*my late daughter Ellen deceased wife of Mr. Richard Ward of Handsworth, butcher

*my grandchildren Mary Ellen Ward and Robert Ward

*another son John Robert Barker

BARKER, JOHN of YORKSHIRE 1750, APR Exchequer Will vol.94, f.20    (FHL film 99714)

[The index (GS film 99447) refers to John Barker the elder of Nawton in Kirkdale parish, and it included his son James Barker who is listed above.]

*written 23 Jan 1747; proved 25 Apr 1750

*John Barker the elder of Nawton in Kirkdale, York, yeoman

*property at Beadlam in parish of Hemsley Blakeymoor, York in occupation of Benjamin Dineley

*property called She?eborn Holm in occupation of Thomas Barker

*my son James Barker

*my son Nicholas Barker and Robert Barker

*my son John Barker

BARKER, JOHN of YORKSHIRE 1788, OCT Exchequer Tuition vol.132, f.   (FHL film 99749)

                [I searched all of October 1788 but there were no tuition records nor any Barkers.]

BARKER, JOHN of WORKSOP, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1797, SEP Exchequer Will vol.141, f.622 (FHL film 99758)

                *written 13 Sept 1789; proved 27 Sept 1797

                *surgeon

                *my sister Mary Marsh, now wife of George Marsh the elder of Worksop, malster

                *to children of George Marsh the younger

                *to Mary Robinson, widow, eldest daughter of my sister Mary Marsh

*to Elizabeth Marsh, second daughter of my sister Mary Marsh, and she [Elizabeth] is now the wife of Robert Marsh of Wools Leigh near Rotherham

*to Richard Marsh, youngest son of Sister Mary Marsh

*George Marsh the younger late of Harthill in Yorks., eldest son of my sister Mary Marsh

*my nephews and nieces: John Marsh, Richard Marsh, Mary Robinson and Elizabeth Marsh.

*William Vessey of Gateforth in parish of Worksop, Gent., and Thomas Gillall the elder of Harthill, Yorks., Gent., executors

BARKER, JOHN of YORKSHIRE 1777, OCT Exchequer Tuition vol.121, f.    (FHL film 99738)

[There was no index at the beginning of this phone.  I didn’t look on this film since it seems to tuitions are not included.]

BARKER, JOHN of BLYTH, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1778, JUN Exchequer Will vol.122, f. 87 (FHL film 99739)

                *written 5 May 1771; proved June 1778

                *of Barnby Moor, Notts., Gent.

                *deed of indenture dated 10 June 1767

                *my cousin Anthony Barker of parish of Mattersey, Nottingham

                *then to Samuel Barker his eldest son

                *Jonathan Bingley of Bawtry, Yorks., and ________ merchant, & Robert Spence of Hodsock, Notts. Gent.

                *John Barker, second son of my cousin Anthony Barker

                *Thomas Barker, third son of my cousin Anthony Barker

                *my cousin James Barker late of Bawtry, Gent., but now in North America

                *my godson John Barker son of the said James Barker

                *to Thomas, another son of James Barker

                *daughters of my cousin James Barker

                *William Wright of Gilding, Notts.

                *Eleanor Kilnor his housekeeper and William Jubb by husbandman

BARKER, JONATHAN of WHITWELL, YORKSHIRE 1855, APR Exchequer Will vol.236, f.155 (FHL film 99867)

                *written 8 Dec 1854; proved 24 Apr 1855

                *of Whitewell in North Riding, Yorks.

                *my brother Robert Barker’s children.

                *my niece Martha Collingson, wife of William Collingson of Rillington

                *my nephew William Barker, son of my sister Hannah Barker

                *my nephew John Barker, son of my sister Hannah

                *to Hannah Hodgson, daughter of Leonard Hodgson of Whitewell

                *Elizabeth Clark and Anna Hodgson.

                *Robert Wilson and Leonard Hodson

BARKER, JOSEPH of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1824, SEP Prerogative Admon vol.170, f. (FHL film 99790)

                [This is an administration (Admon.).]

BARKER, JOSEPH of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1855, JUN Exchequer Will vol.236, f.557 (FHL film 99867)

                *written 21 July 1849; proved 6 June 1855

                *of Park Head in township of Ecclesall Bierlowe in parish of Sheffield, farmer and innkeeper

                *my son Samuel Barker

                *my daughter Sarah wife of William Allen

                *Mary wife of George Dalton

                *Lydia wife of Samuel Mountsey of Sheffield, innkeeper

                *my son Alexander Barker of Whinlowe

                *my daughter Ann wife of Thomas Brimey Loukes of High Storrs

                *my sons Joseph and William Barker

*I humbly request that Earl FitzWilliam accept my son Samuel Barker as tenant to lands under his Lordship in township of Ecclesall Bierlowe.

BARKER, JOSEPH of BRAMLEY, YORKSHIRE 1838, MAR Exchequer Will vol.197, f. (FHL film 99817)

[The reference in Origins.net may be wrong here.  I need to check the original index.  I went name by name through March 1838 and don’t see it.]  [I checked the original index (FHL film 99451) which provides him with the “A. 100” reference, so I assume the “A” must mean this is actually an administration.]

BARKER, JOSEPH of HANDSWORTH, YORKSHIRE 1857, APR Prerogative Admon vol.244, f. (FHL film 99875)

                [This is an administration (Admon.)

BARKER, MARTHA of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1804, OCT Exchequer Admon vol.148, f. (FHL film 99765)

[This is an administration (Admon.).

BARKER, MARY of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1840, JUN Exchequer Admon vol.201, f. (FHL film 99821)

                [This is an administration (Admon.)

BARKER, MARY of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1843, JUL Prerogative Will vol. 208, f.58 (FHL film 99828)

                *written 10 Jan 1842; proved 5 July 1843

                *of Rawcliffe in Snaith, widow

                *my nephew George Cooke of Gowdall Broach in township of Gowdall in Snaith, farmer

BARKER, MARY of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1828, AUG Prerogative Admon vol.178, f. (FHL film 99798)

                [This is an administration (Admon.)

BARKER, RACHEL of HANDSWORTH WOODHOUSE, YORKSHIRE 1854, OCT Prerogative Will vol.234, f.118 (FHL film 99865)

                *written 18 June 1854; proved 16 Oct 1854

                *widow

                *my daughter Mary Barker

                *my late husband William Barker

                *property in Carver Street in Sheffield

                *my son James Barker got his due in deed dated 24 Oct 1843

                                *deeds mention Edward Spence of Hull, Yorks., merchant and John Needham, agent.

BARKER, RICHARD of DONCASTER, YORKSHIRE 1799, MAR Exchequer Will vol.143, f.467 (FHL film 99760)

                *written 7 Nov 1796; proved March 1799

                *baker

                *my dear wife Mary

                *my daughter Ann marrying William Hawke of Fardoles in parish of Braithwell, farmer

*mentions lands occupied by Thomas Marshall, James Witham, Samuel Wright, John Pollard, William Farren, and W. Alderman Whitaker.

*my daughter Mary Barker the younger

*my son Richard Barker (aka Dickey Barker)

BARKER, RICHARD of YORKSHIRE 1788, OCT Exchequer Tuition vol.132, f.      (FHL film 99749)

                [I’m not checking for it since tuitions are not included among wills that I can see on these microfilms.]

BARKER, RICHARD of WOODHOUSE, YORKSHIRE 1854, OCT Prerogative Admon vol.234, f. (FHL film 99865)

                [This is an administration (Admon.)]

BARKER, RICHARD of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 29 Jan 1696/7 Exchequer (Doncaster) Administration (FHL film 99640)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, ROBERT of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1816, MAR Exchequer Will vol.160, f. (FHL film 99779)

[Not found.  I went name by name through March 1816.  It seems that the missing folio number usually indicates that I will not find it in the given month, but not always.  I need to check the original index.]  [I checked the original index (GS film 99449) and Robert is referred to as “A. 20” which I assume refers to an administration, not was will or testament.]

BARKER, ROBERT of DRAX, YORKSHIRE 1806, OCT Exchequer Admon vol.150, f. (FHL film 99767)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, ROBERT of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1792, JUL Exchequer Will vol.136, f.185 (FHL film 99753)

                *written 2 Feb 1787; proved July 1792

                *On microfilm this will is very dark and hard to read.

                *snuff manufacturer

*my good friends Thomas Handley, farmer of Brightside in the parish of Sheffield & Thomas Taylor of Sheffield, merchant, & John Stacye of Sheffield, [can’t read his occupation]

*mentions Mrs. Dickenson of Sheffield

*There is a co-partnership between ____________ Dickenson and himself.

*oldest son Jonathan is not yet 21

*my dear wife Ann Barker

*other children Mary, Thomas, and Ann Barker

BARKER, ROBERT of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1840, JUN Exchequer Admon vol.201, f. (FHL film 99821)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, SAM of BAWTRY, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1737, AUG Exchequer Will vol.85, f.139 (FHL film 99705)

                [There is a Bawtry in Tinsley, Yorks., and a Bawtry on edge of Notts. outside my area of research.]

                *written 19 Apr 1737; proved 18 Aug 1737

                *This will clearly says Samuel Barker of Bawtry, Yorkshire.

                *inn holder

*property occupied by John Roe, Elizabeth Pash, William Bayles, and it goes to Samuel Shadforth and William Brookes, both of Bawtry.

*wife is Hannah

*my five children: Sarah, Catherine, Samuel, Mary and Elizabeth

    

BARKER, SAMUEL of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1810, JUN Exchequer Will vol.154, f.188 (FHL film 99771)

                *written 1 Sept 1809; proved June 1810

                *laborer

                *friends Robert Porightmore of Sheffield, merchant, and Isaac Hatfield of Sheffield, merchant’s clerk

                *my daughter Anne

                *my son Samuel Barker

                *my daughter Mary the wife of George Jones

                *my daughter Dorothy the wife of Joseph Eyre

BARKER, SAMUEL of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1837, JUN Prerogative Admon vol.195, f. (FHL film 99815)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, SAMUEL of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1842, MAY Prerogative Will vol.205, f.333 (FHL film 99825)

                *written 19 May 1841; proved May 1842

                *of Sing Hill, Sheffield, shoemaker

                *my affectionate wife Mary

*friends Robert Simpson of Market Street, Sheffield, currier, and James Pilkington of Shepherd Street, Sheffield, shoemaker

BARKER, SAMUEL of MEXBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE 1856, OCT Prerogative Will vol.242, f.11 (FHL film 99873)

                *writeen 8 Jan 1855; proved Oct 1856

                *This is a very lengthy and extensive will.

                *He is an earthenware manufacturer, an iron founder, and a railway wheel manufacturer.

                *wife is Jane Barker

                *son Henry Barker

*Samuel the testator and his son Henry carry on the earthenware manufacturing at Don Pottery near Mexborough.

*My son-in-law John Ducker Beckitt at Don Iron Works at Mexborough.  He is a partner with the testator.

*my son Samuel Barker the younger is not yet 23

*my son Peter Jesse Barker is not yet 21

*my son Edward Barker is not yet 21

*my daughter Jane Barker is not yet 21

*other daughters are Lucy Anna, Sarah and Maria

*my daughter Elizabeth Anne Beckitt

BARKER, SAMUEL of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1781, MAY Exchequer Will vol.125, f.197 (FHL film 99742)

                *Samuel was a cutler

                *will written 14 Jan. 1774

                *wife is Esther [She Esther Barker’s 1784 probate will above.]

                *dwelling house at Healey in parish of Sheffield  [Could it be Hexley?]

                *closes of land in possession of John Wilson, Thomas Stores, and Mrs. Allott.

BARKER, SAMUEL RICHARD of ROTHERHAM, YORKSHIRE 1831, JUN Exchequer Admon vol.183, f.  (FHL film 99803)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, SAMUEL SCATCHERD of DARFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1832, JUN Exchequer Admon vol.185, f. (FHL film 99805)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, THOMAS of WORKSOP, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1764, JUN Exchequer Will vol.108, f.269 (FHL film 99726)

                *written 8 June 1758; proved 12 June 1764

                *Thomas is a fellmonger

                *my good friends Henson Kirkly and Richard Jackson, both of Workshop, Gents.

                *Thomas Barton of Elkesley

                *John Belk of Worksop

                *Origlinal Belk of Elkersley

                *Elizabeth Boardsall of Worksop, widow, and her son Thomas Boardsall

                *Thomas Clayton of Lanterton, Lincoln

                *Deborah Fitzakerley of Worksop

                *Mary Barton the daughter of the said Thomas Barton

                *William Marshall

BARKER, THOMAS of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1857, JAN Prerogative Will vol.243, f.20 (FHL film 99874)

                *written 2 June 1856; proved 7 Jan 1857

                *of Balne in parish of Snaith, farmer

                *my wife Rebecca Barker

BARKER, THOMAS of DONCASTER, YORKSHIRE 1834, JUN Prerogative Will vol.189, f.378 (FHL film 99809)

                *written 15 June 1833; proved 11 June 1834

                *Thomas is of Doncaster, Yorkshire, wine and spirit merchant

*good friends John Woodhead(sp?), William Hurst, architects, Richard Earnshaw, manufacturer, and Robert Maw, mercer and draper, all of Doncaster

*my daughter Mary Ann Barker (not yet 21)

*my son John Maw Barker (not 21)

*my son Richard barker (not 21)

BARKER, THOMAS of DRAX, YORKSHIRE 1832, DEC Prerogative Admon vol.186, f. (FHL film 99806)

BARKER, THOMAS of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1827, JUL Prerogative Admon, Will vol.176, f.2 (FHL film 99796)

                *written 28 Jun 1824; proved 7 July 1827

                *Thomas (the testator) is referred to as Gunner Thomas Barker of the 5^th Company 3^rd Battalion, Bengal Artillery

                *my beloved cousin Harriet Fox

                *to Bombadiers D. Thomson and Gunner D. Davis

                *under oath of Bombadier George Goulton and William Baker and Gunner George Alexander

BARKER, THOMAS of DRAX, YORKSHIRE 1798, OCT Exchequer Admon vol.142, f. 

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, THOMAS of DRAX, YORKSHIRE 1782, JUL Exchequer Will vol.126, f.285 (FHL film 99743)

                *written 11 Dec 1780; proved July 1732

                *of Longdrax in parish of Drax, York, yeoman

                *my loving wife Dorothy

                *my son Thomas Barker

                *my daughter Sarah Haxwell

                *my daughter Elizabeth Barker

                *my daughter Jane Bullock

                *my son Robert Barker

BARKER, THOS of DRAX, YORKSHIRE 1803, APR Prerogative Will vol.147, f.135 (FHL film 99764)

                *written 21 Dec 1801; proved 22 Apr 1803

                *He signs with a X

                *of Camblesforth in the parish of Drax, farmer

                *my friends Robert Leggitt of Doncaster, Yorkshire, Gent., and Thomas Tate of Snaith, miller

                *my daughter Mary and wife of William Nixon of Long Drax, farmer

                                *to John Nixon their son

                                *to Margaret and Elizabeth Nixon their daughters

*my granddaughters: Elizabeth, Hannah, Anne, Martha and Diana Barker, the children of my daughter-in-law Elizabeth and wife of George Simpson of Cambleforth, farmer

*to Thomas Ellison

BARKER, THOS of AUGHTON, YORKSHIRE 1747, JUL Exchequer Admon vol.91, f. (FHL film 99712)

                [This is an administration.]

BARKER, THOS of ROTHERHAM, YORKSHIRE 1802, OCT Exchequer Will vol.146, f.328 (FHL film 99763)

                [This is the father of my ancestor, Samuel Barker (1791-1832).]

                *written 10 Dec. 1801; proved Oct. 1802

                *He is a plumber and glazier

*He refers to his “undivided half part and share of in and to All that my Estate situate and being at Cowdale in the County of Derby . . . and which is now in the occupation of Thomas Wainwright his undertenants and assigns.”

*He gives this land in Cowdale, along with other unnamed property, to his wife Elizabeth forever.

BARKER, TIMOTHY of ROCLIFFE, YORK ST OLAVE, YORKSHIRE 29 Jul 1721 Exchequer (York) Will 75/363 (FHL film 99693/4)

                [This is Rawcliffe, St. Olave’s parish, just outside the city of York.]

                *written 20 May 1721; proved 29 July 1721

                *my sister Ann Mason and to her daughter Mary Scott, and to the eldest son of the said Mary Scott

*to my cousin Mary late the wife of George Jaques, deceased, but since remarried “to someone’s name I know not.”

*to George Godson of York and his wife

*to Eliz. Cleveland, spinster

*to John Plowman of Skelton

*to Ann Cleveland and Alice Cleveland

BARKER, WILLIAM of DALTON, YORKSHIRE 13 Feb 1705/6 Exchequer (Bulmer) Administration (FHL film 99680)

                [There are many Daltons in Yorkshire.  There is one near Rotherham.  This is an administration.]

BARKER, WILLIAM of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1840, JUN Prerogative Will vol.201, f.410 (FHL film 99821)

                *written 3 July 1839; proved June 1840

                *This is a very long will.

                *He is of Rawcliffe in the parish of Snaith, Gent.

*my friend John Ellerker of Seulcoates, Yorkshire, Esq., and my own nephew William Hirst of Boroughbridge, Gent. & my dear wife’s nephew George Cooke of Pollington in Snaith, farmer, as joint executors

                *my dear wife Mary

                *my servant Elizabeth Lawrence

                *my late brother John Barker

*my 12 nephews and nieces: Godfrey Hirst, William Collinson, Betsy Nicholson, Hannah Southgate, Richard Barker, William Barker, Ann Barker, Mary Ellerker, Harriet Barker, Emma Tarbotton, Jemima Barker and Elizabeth Barker.

*the widow of my late nephew John Collinson

*my brother Richard Barker

*Codicil dated 3 July 1839

                *my niece Mary the wife of Mr. Francis Iveson of Beverley, Yorkshire, solicitor

BARKER, WILLIAM of AUGHTON, YORKSHIRE 1768, MAR Exchequer Will vol.112, f. (FHL film 99730)

[The index (GS film 99447) refers to William Barker of East Cottingwithe in Aughton parish and it looks like it could be an administration.  It looks like “A. ud 4?”.  I did not find the will.]

BARKER, WILLIAM of BLYTH, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1818, FEB Prerogative Will vol.162, f.212 (FHL film 99781)

                *written 20 Feb 1817; proved 12 Feb 1818

                *my niece Ann the wife of William Bewlay of Thorne, Yorkshire

                *my niece Mary Raynor, widow of Hull

                *my dear wife Dorothy Barker

                *my sister Elizabeth Gregory

                *my friend Thomas Nettleship of Bawtry

BARKER, WILLIAM of SNAITH, YORKSHIRE 1802, DEC Prerogative Will vol.146, f.370 (FHL film 99763)

                *written 29 May 1791; proved Dec 1802

                *late of Rawcliffe Bridge, but now of Rawcliffe in the parish of Snaith, yeoman

                *my dear wife Elizabeth Barker

                *dwelling house at Rawcliffe

*my sons William Barker of Rawcliffe Bridge, yeoman & Richard Barker of Town of Kingston Upon Hull, leather cutter

*my son-in-law William Collinson of town of Kingston Upon Hull, ship owner

*my daughter Elizabeth the wife of William Collinson

*my son John Barker

*my late daughter Mary Hirst who has two children

BARKER, WILLIAM of SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE 1835, OCT Exchequer Will vol.192, f.266 (FHL film 99812)

                *signed 17 July 1834; proved Oct 1835

                *my wife [unnamed at first, but mentioned later by name]

                *my children [unnamed], not yet 21

                *a plot of land he bought of Robert Rogers at Carver Street.

                *houses left to “us” by William Hotham

*approves his son James Barker and his cousin Thomas Barker of Helmsley and my son William Barker and my wife Rachel Barker as executors

BARKER, WILLM of MIDDLETON HARTHILL, YORKSHIRE 1750, MAR Exchequer Will vol.93, f.242 (FHL film 99713)

                *written 8 Feb 1749 (23 Geo. II); proved 12 March 1749

                *William Barker of Middleton Harthill, yeoman

                *my sister Elizabeth the wife of Cary(sp?) Gill of Welton, Yorkshire

*property occupied by himself, Robert Jefferson, Stephen Jefferson, Henry Bowser(sp?), William Breighton, and Thomas Grainger

*residue of estate to son of my sister Elizabeth Gill