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Hall
Barker
Information from Jeff Gosnell, Gosnell and Butterfield Family Genealogy Pages, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 36
Kent County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2000, Generation Press, Agincourt, ON:
Barker Hall, 27, resides Orford, born Nelson, s/o John & Maria, married 15 Feb 1869 Jerusha Gosnell, 23, resides Orford, born Orford, d/o John & Sarah.
1881 personal census, Orford Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Barker Huul, M, Married, 39, born Ont, origin: English, E Meth, Farmer;
Jerusha, F, Married, 33, born Ont, origin: Irish, E Meth;
Arthur W., M, 11, born Ont;
Ellan M., F, 6, born Ont;
Annie O., F, 4, born Ont.
1901 personal census, Aldborough Twp, Elgin Co., ON, A3-2:
Barker Hall, M, Married, 3 Sept 1841, 58, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Jerushah, F, wife, Married, 15 July 1847, 53, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth;
Annie O., F, daughter, Single, 8 Oct 1877, 23, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Robert E., M, son, Single, 18 July 1885, 15, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth.
Jeff Gosnell writes:
Hall Barker, the fourth child of John and Mariah Barker, was born in a log house in Nelson Township Halton County Ontario in 1841, one year after his parents came to Canada. He was raised in his parents' faith of Episcopalian Methodist. In 1853, Hall, his parents and brothers and sisters came to Orford township and lived on 26 acres of his Uncle William's farm Lot 1 Conc 2. The 1861 census listed his occupation as a shoemaker, his age as 21 years. The Barker family lived two concessions south of the original Gosnell pioneer farm on Lot 17/18 North Middle Road Orford. Hall and his brother Robert, both courted the eligible Gosnell girls and Hall married Jerusha Gosnell on 15 February 1869 and Robert married Charlotte Gosnell on 15 April 1857. Their older brother, The Reverend Dawson Barker officiated at both weddings. Both Hall and Jerusha and Robert and Charlotte moved to adjacent crown land on the 12th concession (Hogg Street) in Alborough Township and farmed there for thirty plus years. Hall and Jerusha raised a family of four on this property and he died on the 26 March 1906 and is buried in the Duart Cemetery. For a short time around the year 1900 Hall worked in Detroit at a railway crossing, operating the crossing gates. This is probably were his then unmarried daughter, Ellen May, met her husband. After this time both Barker families left Aldborough township; Hall and Jerusha's descendants going to the Brigden Ont area and Robert and Charlottes's family going back to Orford township on the Gore road. Hall and Jerusha had four children:- Arthur W Barker, Ellen May Barker, Annie Oletta Barker, and Robert Edward Barker. Both Hall and Jerusha are buried in the Duart Ontario Cemetery. After Halls's death, Jerusha moved to Brigden Ont to live with her son (Edward Barker and family). until her death in 1919 -13 years after her husband.
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