Biography.
Biographical details of
William Barnard have been summarised by Heather Etteridge in a blog articles on -
Great Ellingham One Place Study.
William Barnard was born at
Great Ellingham in 1835, the youngest son of James and Sarah Barnard. William had taken over running the 236 acre Bury Hall farm from his father by 1871 according to census data. His parents had been at Bury Hall in
Great Ellingham since about 1830 based on the birthplace of his siblings. In 1879 William Barnard (44 years) married 29 year old Harriet Clarke. The couple had four children but only one survived beyond childhood.
In the 1881 census undertaken on 3 April 1881, William Barnard, was living at Bury Hall with his wife Harriet and two young sons, one year old James and three month old George William. William employed seven men and one boy on the 256 acre farm. The family also had a servant - local girl, thirteen year old Sarah Jane Reynolds. William was in the process of sorting out his financial difficulties at the time of the census.
At a General Meeting of William's Creditors in the Norwich County Court on the 25th January, 1881, it was resolved that:
- The affairs of William Barnard should be liquidated by arrangement not in bankruptcy.
- H J Ireland should carry on the farm (Bury Hall)
- The 12 year lease of the Bury Hall and farm which had been granted to William Barnard by Lord Walsingham (the property owner) in 1873 would be surrendered and varied to allow H J Ireland to carry on the farm.
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It appears William and family moved from Burry Hall,
Great Ellingham, to Attleborough in 1881 or 1882. The Norfolk Pubs website lists William Barnard as the licensee of The Swan Public House in Exchange Street, Attleborough between 1883 and 1885. William died in Attleborough on the 18th March, 1885. The registration of William Barnard's death gives his occupation as a Licensed Victualler. He was aged 49 and had been suffering from jaundice and congestion of the kidneys. Less than a year later, William Barnard's young widow, 31 year old Harriet Barnard died of consumption at The Hospital, Norwich on the 1st January 1886.
Source: William Barnard in Financial Difficulties at Bury Hall, Great Ellingham One Place Study, Posted on June 1, 2020 by Heather Etteridge.
Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project
1835 - 1885 (50 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.
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