When Benjamin Franklin Barker was born on 27 February 1847, in Mispillion Hundred, Kent, Delaware, United States, his father, Joseph Watson Barker, was 25 and his mother, Ann Matilda Rathel, was 20. He married Sarah Rebecca Nichols on 31 December 1874, in New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States in 1880 and Little Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware, United States in 1900. He died on 12 November 1912, in Delmar, Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kent, Delaware, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1859: Sussex, Delaware, United States
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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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