When Elizabeth Ann Barker was born in 1866, in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Barker, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Lambert Dishley, was 35. She lived in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England in 1871. She died in March 1874, in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 8.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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