When James Rice Barfett was born in March 1869, in Clarington, Durham, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Rice Barfett, was 43 and his mother, Charlott Maria Knight, was 44. He married Edythe Vernie Robrecht on 7 October 1896, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States for about 5 years and Irondequoit, Monroe, New York, United States in 1940. He died in 1949, in New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Irondequoit Cemetery, Irondequoit, Monroe, New York, United States.
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Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
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