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From: "Becky Horne" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Re: Barnes
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 12:45:34 +0200
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Hi Marion and Sharon

Here are some BARNES inscriptions that might enable you to check your data?

North End Cemetery, Port Elizabeth
BRP - Block, Row & Plot

McNAMARA née BARNES, Gwladys Janet + 17 Nov 1975 aged 64 BRP Y2 38. (Is
Gwladys spelt correctly?)
BARNES, Janet + 22 Dec 1956 aged 83 BRP Y2 38
BARNES, Samuel John + 16 June 1959 aged 86 BRP Y2 38
BARNES, Stanley Hugh * 6 July 1905 + 22 Oct 1953 BRP J12 210

Best wishes
Becky
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Researching: HENWICK; HILL; HORN(E); MEREDITH; DEYZEL; LARSEN; WILLSON;
LYNAR; HENNING; STERLEY; THECK; BEST; BRAUN, GREENER; GLANVILLE.
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From: Marion Moore <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: [ZA] Re: Barnes


> Hi Sharon
> I am putting this reply on the list as it may interest others too.
>
> I actually had some of the Barnes facts wrong. A relative who is also
doing
> family research gave me the correct info, which he got from a book called
> Through the Chequered Path by Pamela Barnes. Apparently it is well
> researched and very interesting. I am going to try to get hold of it.
Here
> follow some extracts, which will help to clarify a complicated set-up:
>
> Page 11: ...Henry Harper, 30 a cooper, with his brother James, 14, and
his
> daughter Elizabeth, 6. Accompanying him were Mary Barnes, 37, and her
sons
> James, 12 and George, 8, while her daughter Elizabeth, 13, scheduled to
> travel with them, appears to have been left behind for some reason.
>
> Page 35: Lists of births: On the 15th April (I think in 1822) Maria,
child
> of Henry Harper and Mary Barnes.
>
> When she came to the Cape in 1820 with her two sons James and George, Mary
> (a widow) had for some reason been obliged to leave behind her
> thirteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth. As a widow with no male over
> seventeen in her family, she had no chance of being included in any
> emigration scheme in her own right, so she had allied herself to the
widowed
> Henry Harper, who was bringing his own daughter and his brother with him
to
> the Cape. To permit Mary's inclusion in Howard's Party, Harper had
declared
> that she was his wife and they maintained this deception for eight years
> before marrying in Grahamstown in 1827.
>
> William also sent me a list of Barnes descendents from 1820. [Thanks
> William. It is a bit cryptic but I'm trying to sort it out.] From that I
> can give the following information:
>
> Mary Barnes (nee Dixon) born Jan. 1782 in England and died 6 June 1863 in
> Grahamstown.
> George Sutton Barnes born 4 May 1811, London, died 6 Feb 1903 in
> Grahamstown.
> Anna Maria Dugmore born 13 April 1812 at St. Phillip's, Birmingham, died 2
> Jan 1889 in Grahamstown.
>
> Mary's first husband was definitely dead before she came to SA. I
wondered
> what happened to her poor 13 year old daughter?
>
> If you need more information perhaps William or I could help you.
>
> Best wishes,
> Marion
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