John Barnard

Brief Life History of John

When John Barnard was christened on 23 March 1779, in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Barnard, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Brown, was 24. He married Elizabeth Pope on 19 May 1807, in Swell, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He was buried in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

John Barnard
1779–1834
Elizabeth Pope
1778–1847
Marriage: 19 May 1807
John Barnett
1809–1855
Roda Barnard
1818–1819
Charles Barnard
1813–
Eliza Barnard
1813–
Ann Barnard
1816–

Sources (20)

  • John Barnett, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
  • John Barnard, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
  • John Barnard in the Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812

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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, Dutch, and French: variant of Bernard and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname Barnard is very rare in France.

Americanized form of German Bernhard or Bernhardt , and of German, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Bernard .

History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. John Barnard was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker). Another John Barnard, born in Boston in 1681, was a Congregational clergyman who served as minister of Marblehead, MA, from 1716 to 1770.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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