When Elizabeth Barker was born on 18 May 1740, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jacob Barker II, was 27 and her mother, Mary Spofford, was 26. She married Isaac Platts Stickney about 1755, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in September 1831, in Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sheffield United Church Cemetery, Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.
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English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
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