Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Barker was born in 1849, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, his father, Alfred Barker, was 37 and his mother, Priscilla Chambers, was 33. He died in 1857, in his hometown, at the age of 8.
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- Alfred Barker, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
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Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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