Brief Life History of Thomas Bullivant
When Thomas Bullivant Barley was born in 1790, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Barley, was 26 and his mother, Mary Cross, was 24. He married Sarah Cawkwell on 19 March 1811, in Thorne, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 2 July 1878, in Thorne, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 88.
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- Thomas Barley (is raising daughter Nancy's illegitimate son John), "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Thomas Barley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- PR Marriage: Thomas Barley & Sarah Cawkwell 1812
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World Events (7)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Barley. Those in Lancashire and Yorkshire are named with Old English bār ‘wild boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. A place of the same name in Hertfordshire has as its first element an unattested Old English byname Be(o)ra (from bera ‘bear’).
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of barley, from Middle English barli, barlich ‘barley’ (Old English bærlic, originally an adjective derivative of bær ‘barley’, a byform of bere).
Americanized form of South German Behrle or of its Swiss German cognates Beerli, Berli, or Berly, and probably also of some other similar (like-sounding) surname. Compare Berley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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