When Caroline Louisa Barker was born in 1845, in Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Barker, was 31 and her mother, Louisa Montague, was 30. She lived in Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 13 March 1918, in West Ham, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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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