I hope to find information about John Barber who was born in Ireland in 1805. I know that he was Anglican and that he was a Blacksmith.
John Barber emigrated to the Ottawa area in Canada some time prior to 1839, where he married Mary (Polly) Prentice on May 4, 1839. Their marriage record refers to him as: "John Barber of Nepean, District of Bathurst, Blacksmith."
John Barber and Mary Prentice had four children: John (born about 1840); Mariah (born June 27, 1843); George (born August 9, 1844) and Adam (born Jan. 6, 1846, after his father's death).
All these dates are from the Anglican Church records in Ottawa.
John Barber died on July 25, 1845, at the age of 40 years, and he was buried in Hazeldean Cemetery in Goulbourn Township, Ontario.
I have two leads but both have turned out to be brick walls.
(1) The IGI showed a John Barber born May 16, 1805 in Templepatrick, Antrim, Ireland, his father was named Thomas.
(2) Another John Barber lived in Fitzroy Township in Ontario (adjoining Goulbourn Township). He was born in Tipperary about 1872 so he was of an age to be a father to my ancestor. He was also Anglican.
I would really appreciate any help at all. I would love to visit his birthplace in Ireland one day!
Elizabeth, from BC, Canada
Elizabeth Abbott
Monday 12th Nov 2012, 06:42PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com
If you haven't already- you might try some of the following:
British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
The Library & Archives of Canada - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp
1796: Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlement Lists; This was part of a government scheme to encourage the linen trade, free spinning wheels or looms were granted to individuals planting a certain area of land with flax. The lists of those entitled to the awards, covering almost 60,000 individuals, were published in 1796, and record only the names of the individuals and the civil parish in which they lived. The majority, were in Ulster, but some names appear from every county except Dublin and Wicklow. A microfiche index to the lists is available in the National Archives, and in PRONI.
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Kind regards,
Tuesday 15th Jan 2013, 12:52PM