Alexander B. Barr

Brief Life History of Alexander B.

When Alexander B. Barr was born on 17 June 1818, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Barr, was 20 and his mother, Grissel Gardner, was 17. He married Elisabeth Stewart on 25 March 1836, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Gorbals, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Orford, Kent, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 20 August 1898, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Duart, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Alexander B. Barr
1818–1898
Mary Ann Ford
1841–
Marriage: 1870
Agnes Barr
1871–
Christiana Maud M Barr
1874–
Sarah Jane Barr
1878–
Jean May Barr
1878–1956
Alexandria Barr
1880–
Collin Barr
1881–
Marian Maggnia Barr
1881–

Sources (23)

  • Alexander Barr in household of Obadiah Denie, "Scotland Census, 1841"
  • Alexander Barr, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Alexander Barr, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"

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World Events (8)

1820 · "The ""Radical War""."

The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

Name Meaning

Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.

English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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