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24-06-23, 10:02
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Would it be of any interest to know that 'your' Margaret Barker is my 2nd cousin twice removed!!
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24-06-23, 10:15
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Not at all!! (and how dare you tell me a blood relative had an affair!! lolol My gran, also a relative of Margaret's, will be turning in her grave!)
I saw the name Barker when I was reading the thread, but that didn't jangle any bells, however, when I opened the 1921 census link and saw Whittlesford, I thought "oh I have Barker's from there"! I opened my tree and saw my Margaret was a retired milliner!! I don't have anything on her after 1901 but it would be probably at least 15 years since I researched her bit of the tree. I surprised I remembered as Barker is her dad's name (obviously!) and I'm related via her mother, Adah Smith, so I only have a smattering of people named Barker.
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24-06-23, 10:45
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 As Jack and Madge his wife had no children, I thought I was safe in posting this! And poor Margaret had no grandchildren. Ada Joan died in 1920, aged 16. Anthony Brian moved to Kingston upon Thames, and Margaret went with him. They are together in 1939 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...=successSource He died in 1944 aged 41, leaving his mother to prove his will: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...=successSource
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24-06-23, 10:50
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Haha, small world eh? (But I wouldn't want to dust it.)
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24-06-23, 10:50
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Margaret didn't die until 1955, and made Madge, her daughter in law, her executor:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...2&pId=19269154
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24-06-23, 10:55
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Margaret’s parents Ada and George were living apart in 1881 and I had a note that I’d been told he had been convicted of assaulting her. I just checked the papers and that was correct (1878). I think he died soon after the census. I doubt that was a single occurrence so family life may have been difficult for Margaret and her siblings. Plus all those knives on the premises.
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07-07-23, 10:07
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I've bought my first digital image. And Jack's father was John Penry-Jones, a medical student.
Birth registered by his mother. She appears to have been lodging at 16 Loampit Vale, Lewisham. I'm struggling to find a John Penry Jones who fits the bill, but I have found a John Henry Jones, born Fownhope, Herefordshire. In 1891, he is a scholar in a boarding school in Landport, Portsmouth aged 16 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...=successSource In 1901, he is a surgeon, on board a ship in Dartmouth, aged 26 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...=successSource In 1921, he is a physician in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, but on holiday in Colwyn Bay https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco.../27924/0501/01 Do you think this single medical man, wandering around the country, could have been Jack's father, and Margaret misheard, or misremembered? It's something I will never know for sure.
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07-07-23, 10:41
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Here is John in 1911, boarding in Hampstead:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...647%2F0151%2F3 He qualified in 1899, gained extra qualifications in 1911, and by 1912 was in Norwich
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