John Barnett Abt. 1762 - 1846 John may have been born in Nantwich, Cheshire or Boothstown, Manchester. (See correspondence.) He is buried in Eccles Parish Churchyard, along with his baby daughter Mary, although the gravestones have been removed. His death was registered by his son James, the cause being given as fever Thomas
Barnett
In the 1841 census Thomas was living at 49, Whackers Lane, Worsley, a cotton weaver aged 50, with wife, Martha (50) and children Elizabeth (25), David (25) both dressers in cotton factory, Ann (20), Charles (15) and Martha (15) all cotton loom weavers and James (14). Father, John (80) was living with
them, a retired cotton weaver. Charles
Barnett Charles was born in Worsley and baptised in Astley Chapel (near Boothstown, but no longer standing) on 21 May, 1796. Original entry can be seen in Leigh Parish Church. Record held in Leigh Town Hall archives.
The engraving reads: Ellen
Ley Ellen's marriage certificate records her surname as Ellen Ley, but she only marked, so spelling could be dubious. Her age on her death certificate (she died at the early age of 45) accords with the birth of Ellen Lea to George Lea and Mary in Hulton-Ellenbrook (christened 13 November 1796 in Eccles, Manchester). Other siblings of Ellen were: John
Lea Chr: 13 July 1794 Hulton-Ellenbrook This is conjecture only based on the IGI because Lea is a common name, but it seems very likely since she was christened in Eccles and apparently buried in Eccles Parish Churchyard too according to her great-nephew, Thomas Barnet, but the gravestones have been removed and no record seems to be preserved recording her burial. Also, the names of her siblings accord with the names she gave her own children. David
Barnett In the 1851 census David is listed as a
cotton mill draper living at 121 Tinsley Mount No. 37, Worsley aged 35 with wife Jane (30) and children William (7), Betsy (5) and Joseph (2). William
Barnett William is listed in the 1881 census, married to Alice (37) with three daughters, Mary Jane (9), Beatrice A. (4), Gertrude (1) and a son, Joseph A. (6).
His occupation is given as a salesman (Grey Cotton Cloth).
John
Barnett John and Agnes John Barnett married
Agnes Alston in West Calder Scotland in 1855 but spent all his married
life in Shifnal, Shropshire. He is listed in the 1881 census living at Decker Hill,
Shifnal, aged 56, a gardener. Also wife Agnes
(nee Alston) (50) and children James (21), clerk G.W. Railway, John (18) pupil teacher, Sarah (14), Charles (13), William (9) and Archibald (5).
His other daughters, Ellen, Agnes, Mary and Grace were living together in Leek & Lowe. The following are extracts from the reminiscences of two of John Barnett's grandchildren:
"... I remember Decker Hill vaguely and had been near it a few times years ago, but after receiving your
letter...we took a trip to look around. We knew that the place had turned into a golf club. It had been very much renovated and the lodge was quite unrecognisable, even the chimneys modernized and the outside walls 'white-washed', so we proceeded across the course to the house, splendidly brought up to date and of no interest; so we proceeded towards the farm, which was marked 'private' and went alongside a high wall at the back of the house, which was fairly substantial (the house, I mean) of a much older date as far as we could see with old Victorian chimneys etc. There were several farm outbuildings around and no one about (Sunday afternoon), but I feel sure this was the house, chiefly because I remember that wall - although we were on the wrong side of it. We then proceeded to Allbrighton Churchyard as I seemed to remember vaguely where grandfather and also grandmother were buried, but we could not find it [the grave]. Unfortunately, there were a number of stones half buried and some were broken and had been used to repair the churchyard
wall... I do not think that we visited the old people as much as you did, no doubt there were too many of us and father would make journeys on his own to see his parents and return the same day. Albrighton is only six miles from Wolverhampton..."
Letter written by Queenie Rew to her cousin John Barnett dated 11 May 1984
John
and Agnes with seven of their ten children
John
and Agnes Barnett on the occasion of their Golden Wedding in 1895. Ellen
Barnett
Ellen was very religious, becoming a missionary and
traveling as far as China. She never married. She was instrumental in blocking the marriage of her brother Charles to Betty Jenks, who was a nurse, but by all accounts not at all religious. Ellen put about the story that Betty was a consumptive thus putting the family against her. Consumption was
abhorred at that time.
( The following are extracts of memories of Ellen by two of her nephews and a niece:
'...I saw Ellen on several occasions when she was home from her missionary work; she left China at the time of the Boxer rising and I recall her showing us a pair of horn -rimmed spectacles which were unknown here at the time and also a tiny boot which fitted adult women in the days when they bound up their feet from birth. She was a very devout member of the Plymouth Brethren and tried to convert my parents. They were also religious and at the time I think I would describe them as bible students and their discussions with Ellen usually ended with the latter in tears. Incidentally the family covers a fairly broad spectrum of beliefs with C of E, Congregational, Plymouth Brethren, Christadelphian (Sarah I think, and perhaps Grace) and
agnostics. On one of the Ellen visits when we were living in Southall near the Northholt aerodrome she looked up at a plane in the sky and said sadly "If God had meant us to fly he would have given us
wings". Unfortunately I was too young to think of the obvious rejoinder that had he intended us to cross the sea to China he would have given us fins or ducks' feet. The last time I saw her was when she came to stay with us in about 1928 when she was suffering from the shock of the marriage of her lifelong spinster missionary companion (Miss Lott?) to their spiritual leader...' John Barnett 1903-1992,
nephew. '...It would have taken a lot more time for us to get to know Ellen than the periods of her visits to us and at our ages then, we were not interested in her. She did show us the small shoe etc., she brought back [from China]. Also I have a Coolie jacket she gave to mother....'
Grace
(Queenie) Rew (née Barnett), niece Agnes
Barnett Sadly Agnes died at the early age of 25 of heart disease. She was living with her sisters Ellen and Mary in Leek and Lowe in the 1881 census occupied as a dressmaker. Mary
Barnett
Mary was a teacher and living with Ellen and Agnes in Staffordshire in
the 1881 census. She lived in Elgin Scotland after marrying Alexander
Young.
Alexander Young '...I think I saw Mary once but I cannot recall anything about her; her son Alan called on us when on leave from the 1914-18 war and what he told us was probably our first knowledge of the horrors of it....' John Barnett b. 1903 James
Barnett
James is listed in the 1901 census as a railway goods agent aged 41 living at 6 Cranmore Road, Wolverhampton. He could afford to employ a housekeeper, Eleanor Randall a widow aged 24. He seems to have been regarded as something of a financial expert by his siblings though, since both his brother John, and his brother in -law Alexander Young wrote to him for financial help and/or advice. These are some reminiscences of James by his nephews and niece: '...I saw James and his family only infrequently when visiting Albrighton, but I remember him pulling me up for using the word
"umpteen"; however he did this pleasantly and
humourously, and I have the impression of all my uncles having a sense of
humour... I recall my mother [Elizabeth Mackie Barnett née Wright] telling me that when she had just come to England for the first time after her marriage and was
unaware of [the town of] Barnet; your father [James Barnett] told her that there was also East Barnet, High Barnet and New Barnett, and then added, with a twinkle in his eye, 'you are new Barnett!'
...' John Barnett 1903-1992
James
Barnett's children, from the left: Irene
Flora Barnett
Photo of Flora taken in 1992 "...I can explain some of the oddities about our Christian names. I was christened Irene Flora but as Irene was normally corrupted to Rene, Flora came to be preferred. Mildred, likewise, was Mildred Alston. Alston ... was the surname of grandmother Barnett, but why she was known as a child by a surname I do not know..." Letter written by Flora Barnett to her cousin John Barnett dated 16 December 1977 Roland
Barnett Roland moved to Guernsey with his wife Wilma. He supplied much information on the early Barnetts from letters written by his father to other family members. "...I agree that a marked sense of humour was common to most of the family and I particularly recollect that of William and dear old Grace, and our respective fathers were not without wit, I believe..." Letter written by Roland Barnett to his cousin John Barnett dated 12 July 1984 John
Barnett |
John with wife Charlotte |
John and Charlotte with nephew John Barnett and his future wife, Freda Tilbury |
John was a teacher by profession, but did much public work, temperance work, trustee of a college etc after retiring. He spent most of his adult life in Colchester. The following are reminiscences of John by his nephews and niece: '...John we liked with reservation, I thought he was smug in some ways. No doubt he was fortunate in getting a better education than most of his brothers and sisters but that was all, as I think your father at least would have been his equal or even superior if he had received equal opportunities...' Grace (Queenie) Barnett born 1902. John Alston Barnett quite liked John too. He related the story to me of how they were all made to dress up in their best Sunday clothes because Uncle John was coming to visit. The visit passed off well enough, but after John had left to walk round to see his brother James, who lived nearby, the children all rushed to change their clothes. However, it turned out that James wasn't at home, so John returned to William's house unexpectedly. Much to their surprise, he took their disheveled state in his stride and proceeded to get down on the floor and play games with them! '...I saw quite a lot of John and Lottie (née Charlotte Mace) as we used to spend a short holiday with them over a number of years. He had been a teacher and was an insurance agent; during World War I he was Food Controller of Colchester. They were comfortably off, certainly more than we were at the time. Their elder daughter Joan was a few months older than I and there was a younger one, Marjorie who died of peritonitis at the age of seven (?). This was rather ironic as they were so fastidious about food -apples had to be cored and peeled before being eaten, and you had grape nuts to ensure that you chewed your porridge! They were zealous non-smokers and teetotalers; John was Secretary of the North Essex Band of Hope Union; when Joan's fiancé stayed with them he was not allowed to smoke in the house. Nevertheless I think they were very worthy people in the best possible sense of the term, but to my taste rather inclined to overdo the Uplift; I suppose Lottie could be described as somewhat toffee-nosed. I liked them and spent an occasional weekend with them when they had built a house in about an acre of ground just outside Colchester with a croquet lawn and tennis court. Berrell understandably hated Lottie like poison since when we were there as young children if any mishap happened in which she and Joan were concerned Berrell always got the blame for leading her young cousin astray. When Freda and I were engaged they invited us to stay there for a weekend. At that time Joan was also there; she was a Physical Training teacher and really looked the part being very good looking and with a fine figure. John who had a croquet lawn in his gardens for many decades had a real male chauvinist pig's view of women playing the game and had an invariable joke about how infuriated they became when he knocked their ball away from an advantageous position for going through a hoop. He took Freda out to show her how to play the game; she had never had a mallet in her hand before but she was very good at most ball games and she beat him while he was teaching her, - I don't think that he ever quite got over the shock. Freda's forte was tennis and she followed the croquet game up by trouncing Joan by something like 6:1 6:2. At athletics and swimming Joan could probably have got her own back. ....' John Barnett 1903-1992 Obituary in the UKAPIAN Journal of the UK Provident Institution October 1939 'Mr. John Barnett of Colchester Obit September 12th, 1939 'We regret to record the death of one of the Institution's most valued Agents, Mr. John Barnett, of Colchester. He was seventy six years of age. 'Mr. Barnett was well known in the Colchester district as a prominent temperance worker. Trained at Saltby College, Mr. Barnett was, for some years, a member of the teaching profession, but he resigned his post as a schoolmaster in order to become a lecturer for the Band of Hope Union, which position he held for about thirteen years. Later, he became a lecturer on hygiene under the Essex County Council. He had been secretary of the North Essex Band of Hope Union since 1913. 'During the Great War he was Food Control Officer for Colchester. In 1927 he became Pensions Officer, and in the Coal Strike of 1925 was Food and Fuel Officer. In this way Mr. Barnett rendered much valuable public service. 'Mr. N. S. G. Allen, our Resident Inspector at Ipswich, writes, "Mr. Barnett, who for some forty years had represented the Institution in the Eastern Counties, has, I should think, been one of the best Agents the Institution has known. 'Apart from sending us a steady volume of new business throughout these many years, Mr. Barnett was at pains only to introduce the type of business that was in keeping with the Institution's high ideals, and during the all too short time that I had been acquainted with him, I never received an introduction except to business of this type. 'In conclusion, I can say with all sincerity that the Institution has lost a good friend and a connection which it will be impossible ever to replace. 'To Mrs. Barnett, her daughter, Mrs. R. Saxby, and Mr. Barnett's many friends, we send our sincere condolences.' In the Country Telegraph his funeral is reported and the minister, the rev. L. J. Tizard paid tribute to John Barnett saying "he had passed his day in useful service, being animated by a sincere desire to make the world cleaner and more sincere. He was a fine type of Christian gentleman in his bearing and character." '...In 1950 a relative of
my grandmother's from USA, Mrs. Grace Wolfe, was over here as a delegate to a temperance conference and stayed with my mother in Ealing; I took
them to Wallington to see Lottie who was living with her daughter Joan
there. Part of her memory had gone and she couldn't recall me at all. She was alone and invited us in to her room which was not "arty crafty" like the rest of the house, and had a divan on which she slept and a gas stove curtained off in one corner which shocked my mother greatly. We had gone there at Mrs.Wolfe's request as she had corresponded with
Lottie. ..' Letter written to Grace
Rew by her cousin John Barnett 1903-1992 Joan
Marion Barnett
Joan Marion Barnett According to Grace Wolfe, her father spent a great deal of money on
an expensive education for Joan. She was a very competent sportswoman
- see above under John Barnett. She taught in a private school for girls in London before
she married Ronald Saxby. '...They lived in a big house in Wallington. They later moved to a lovely house in
Shalfleet, Isle of Wight, in five acres overlooking the Solent. Joan and her husband both died in 1973....' John Barnett 1903-1992
Joan and Freda Tilbury Sarah
Barnett
Sarah and Albert Pugh
Wedding
of Sarah Barnett and Albert Pugh Sarah lived in Birmingham after her
marriage fairly late in life. Albert was a phrenologist. Charles
Barnett Charles was engaged to Betty Jenks, before marrying Annie
Passmore, see below. He is listed in the 1901 census boarding, aged 33, at
High Street Wombourn, Stafford. His occupation was gardener, domestic.
He was not yet married.
He became a nursery gardener. Betty Jenks
'...I remember Charles and his family well as we used to see quite a lot of them when we stayed at Albrighton. In 1913 I had developed an interest in gardening and found the nursery a fascinating place. Later Charles sent me a parcel of herbaceous plants for our small garden in Southall which I had taken over, and I still have a clump of phlox in my garden descended from these plants. This visit was at about the time when Mr.
Passmore, Annie's father was drowned in the lake, and I recall that there was considerable discussion as to how it had happened; there had been some evidence of prior eccentric behaviour but I think the verdict was accidental death. I wonder if any other of my generation ever met Betty Jenks. She was a nurse at "The Hydro" Leicester run by a "Professor"
Timson. She was very friendly with my parents, and judging by her 'photo was a beautiful young woman who was an old flame of Charles who was given the "thumbs down" by the family because she was not a professing
Christian. ( I understand that Sarah's proposed husband was also met with disapproval by the family, but she was strong enough to retort "hard luck".) I remember my parents being very grieved by Charles' early death; they felt that he had worked much too hard, with the nursery being open at all hours he would often interrupt his meals to attend to
customers...'
'...Charlie died of pernicious anaemia. He certainly worked hard but I do not think that had anything to do with his death. Father had the same complaint in about 1920 and most certainly would have gone the same way if it had not been for mother insisting that he had it. This anaemia is hereditary carried through the female line to males, as you probably know. Father had monthly injections for the rest of his life, over 30 years. I heard of Betty Jenks - mother's version of the affair was that Ellen broke up the romance by saying the Jenks family were affected with consumption, which proved totally untrue. I should not think that Charlie would have been so easily persuaded to give up his girlfriend on religious grounds only, but consumption would be a different matter and quite a sound reason for changing his mind in those days when consumption was rife and a deadly disease....'
Annie
Passmore
Mildred
Barnett
"...I am sorry to tell you of Mildred's very sudden death nearly three years ago. It was a great shock for me for I had been having tea with her a few days previously. The post-mortem diagnosed lumber pneumonia. She had been gardening and came indoors to rest. Shortly afterwards she was discovered lying on the sofa quite dead. There are seven grandchildren, six of them boys. Muriel
Barnett
Muriel Barnett as a young child Sylvia
Barnett
'...On one of my motor bike trips I stayed a few days at Albrighton and taught the three girls [Muriel, Mildred and Sylvia] to ride the machine. In the early sixties I had to go to somewhere near Wolverhampton in connection with my job. On returning through the city I found I had got some unexpected spare time and regretted that I had no addresses with me. However I recalled that Sylvia was connected with a newspaper and had no difficulty in locating her office and luckily she was there and she took me to see Mildred. I am glad that I met them again after so many years, before they died.' John Barnett 1903-1992 William
Barnett
William and Estella William had an implement store in
Wolverhampton, according to Grace Wolfe. He quit his job as a clerk for Great Western, around 1911, and went into business in Shrewsbury with a man who later committed suicide. His wife asked William to sell the
machinery, and he made such a good profit that he decided to go into the machinery business. His son John helped until he had to work in the Power Station in 1943 for eighteen months as a
fitter during the war. Queenie also helped out in the business. '...It would be difficult to imagine a more complete antithesis of John's home than William's. I remember an occasion when the large dining table clean cloth had an almost complete edging of the twins' finger marks; William and Estella were tickled pink, whereas Lottie would have had a fit. My parents were obviously amused but I think my mother, being very house-proud, would perhaps not have been so amused had it happened at our place. A family with one child is a vastly different proposition from one with six, with the latter a sense of humour is a prime essential. My overall impression was of a very happy hospitable place. I still have tools which William gave me on a visit there. Later when the family became mobile with a car Geoffrey and Queenie visited on occasions at Ealing and later when I had a motor bike and then a car we had some pleasant reunions including camping at Cressage....' John Barnett (1903-1992)
William with his cousin Alice Atkinson (née Barnett) Grace
(Queenie) Barnett
Queenie, brother Geoffrey and her daughter
When times were hard in the 1920s and '30s, Queenie contributed most to the family income by working for
W.E. Jones, Timber Importer. Lillian
Barnett
Grace and Lillian Barnett as young children
Lillian, on the right, with Queenie and Geoffrey William
Tempest (Geoffrey) Barnett
Geoffrey top, 2nd from right,
Frank bottom, left Frank
Percival Barnett
Joan
Mary Barnett
Joan Barnett as a young girl Joan was the twin sister of John Alston
Barnett, below. John Alston
Barnett |
John and twin sister Joan |
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John Alston Barnett in later life |
John was a great character. He was an engineer who worked in engineering all his life. He never married and was a bit of a recluse in later years making the proud boast that he never spent a single night in a hotel. He was cremated at Shrewsbury Crematorium on 24th February, 2003. Grace
Barnett Reminiscences of Grace by her niece and nephew: '...Grace was a frequent visitor to us - uninvited and not liked by anyone. I do not think she did so badly when compared with many women of her generation. When grandfather died what money he left was given to Grace by the united consent of the rest of the family, in recognition of the years she had given to looking after the old people. This was practically £1000, quite an appreciable sum in those days. I know this as a fact since I typed some records for her. Archibald
Barnett |
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Archibald as a boy |
Archibald as a young man |
Archibald is listed in the 1881 census age 5 living with his parents and siblings in Shifnal, Shropshire. "...We got on with your father alright and I am sure that you got on with yours. Although we were a large family and must have been very tiresome at times, we could always put our point of view to father and very often got it accepted. We all took your father on the same terms..." Letter written by Queenie Rew to her cousin John Barnett, dated 11 May 1984 "...Archie was also in the employ of the railroad..." Indeed, he was listed in the 1901 census as a railway clerk aged 25 living with wife Elizabeth M. (29) at 24 Hughes Street in Wolverhampton. |
Archibald Barnett |
Archibald with wife Elizabeth and |
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Margaret
Birrell Barnett "...Birrell told me at times about the mischievous (sic) you used to get up to
together; who was the ringleader? She fascinated me, she was always so straight and direct and how she hated Catholics! I remember once in France we went into a church and she began discoursing none too kindly about them. She went into the Confessional and came out wearing the priest's gon (or whatever it is called). She marched up and down the church and left nothing unsaid about what she thought of them. I was terrified someone would come in. Then on another occasion, again when on holiday, she fell down and hurt her knee rather badly. No trouble! Into a chemists she went and came out with a bottle of iodine. Stuff of which I knew nothing at the time. She did nothing with it until night when we were going to bed, when she poured some of the iodine neat directly on to her knee and promptly fainted. I had to raise the household as I had no idea how to fetch her round, not having seen anyone in a faint before..." Grace (Queenie) Rew
(née Barnett in letter to her cousin John Barnett dated 11 May 1984. |
Berrell as a child |
Berrell and brother John |
Berrell and brother John |
Berrell and husband Glyn Gavies |
John Barnett
1903 - 1992
John as a child |
John and his sister Berrell |
John graduated from Queen Mary College London with first class honours in Chemistry in 1923 and went briefly to work in Leeds before returning to London to work for the rest of his life for Thorn Electrical Industries. Most of this time he was a factory works manager. He worked on his Ph. D. later, receiving it in 1947. |
John as a young man |
John and future wife, Freda Tilbury |
During the second world war, which he was too old to fight in, he was very active as an ARP officer and also gas identification officer. After the war he received a letter of thanks for his war contribution from the mayor of Walthamstow, Ross Wylde. He was a great lover of music. He took his children from an early age to concerts at the S.W. Essex Concert Hall and to Salder's Wells opera. He had a vast collection of almost every opera ever recorded on tapes. I think it must have been a great disappointment to him that although Freda, his wife, showed a great interest in music too, before their marriage, she never really got the pleasure from it that he did. My father enjoyed recounting the story of how my mother was playing for her mother and himself, and he detected a wrong note. He mentioned this, but my grandmother would have nothing of it. So, my father had my mother go through the piece again and stopped at the point where he considered the note was in error. Sure enough it was, but my mother could not tell! Despite this, they were a very compatible couple enjoying going together to watch Tottenham Hotspur play football until they were well into their eighties. They also enjoyed playing bridge, my mother particularly.
He was also a meticulous record keeper, particularly of financial matters. Below is the record he kept of his expenditure on one of his annual holidays:
Minehead 1937 |
John and Freda in their eighties
Phyllis
Barnett
1935 - 1986
In memoriam to my sister
Dorothy
Barnett
1945 - 1948
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James Barnett James Barnett bought eight cottages - 1-15 Erith Street, Liverpool. He borrowed £800 from his brother William to finance the purchase. These houses were left to his widow who converted one into a store to support the family.
James Alice was born in No. 1. The sisters operated the property after the death of their mother.
James died of pneumonia in Liverpool. Clara
Barnett "... I know nothing of the Manchester branch of the family, but recall paying a visit with my father to three sisters (spinsters I believe) one of whom was blind, who lived somewhere in the Birkenhead/Liverpool
area..." John Barnett in letter written on 12th March 1984 to his cousin Roland Barnett. Hannah
Maria Barnett Hannah was also known as 'Sis'. She died of pneumonia in Wales in 1941. She never married and lived with her two sisters most of her life. Her occupation in the 1901 census was given as just 'worker'. Sarah
Ellen Barnett Sarah married her employer late in life for whom she had worked as secretary for more than 50 years. She was also known as 'Sallie'. She lived for a long time with her two elder sisters, all of whom, being unmarried at the time, were left legacies in their aunt Elizabeth's will in 1925. See also under Thomas Barnett below. Alice
Barnett Alice married Ralph Atkinson and emigrated to America. Information on her descendants, most of whom are now living on the West Coast of America, was collected by her son-in-law John Pierce, husband of Alice Atkinson. Ralph Atkinson was a doctor of medicine, but clearly also very religious judging from the poem that he wrote on the ship emigrating to America: "All is well" William
Barnett This is almost certainly the William described in the 1881 census as living at 11 Radnor Place, Paddington, London and working as a butler. Aged 50, is listed with wife, Sarah (57) and sons James C. (20) an engineering apprentice and William (19) optician. There was also a general servant, Helen Green (19). William must have been fairly well off because he loaned his brother James £800 to purchase eight cottages, 1-15 Erith Street, Liverpool. See under James Barnett above. James
C. Barnett George
Barnett George was living at 151 Moorside Lane, Worsley in the 1881 census.
His occupation was that of carpenter as in 1851 census. Now aged 46 he
was living with wife Jane (46) and children William Henry (17), coal miner, Ellen (15) cotton weaver, Agnes (13), cotton weaver, Sarah (10), Thomas (7) and George Charles (5). Thomas
Barnett Thomas lived in Manchester - several of his letters to his cousin James Barnett are included under the other family members to whom they refer.
He was executor of his aunt's (see under Elizabeth Barnett) estate in 1925. MW Thomas
Barnett Thomas is listed in the
1851 census as a scholar aged 14 living at home with his widowed father
, brother george, 17, and sister, Elizabeth, 9. In the 1881 census
he is living at 302 Boro Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire aged 44, a joiner with wife Catherine (39) and children Grace (15), Emma (13), Ellen (6), David (3) and possibly twins Elizabeth and Catherine both 2. Elizabeth
Barnett Elizabeth
appears first in the 1851 census, aged 9, living at home, 25
Cooke Lane, Worsley with her widowed father and two elder
brothers, George, 17 and Thomas 14. In the 1881 census she
is still living with her father, now retired, but at 502 Abbot's
Fold, Worsley.
Aged 39, her occupation was given as cotton weaver. By
1891, she is living alone, still a cotton weaver, living in
Chaddock Road, Boothstown. She was buried in Tyldesley Churchyard, Lancs. but
no gravestone can be found. Elizabeth never married. The
following are letters written by her nephew, Thomas, to his cousin,
James during her
terminal illness and subsequent death: Elizabeth made some attempt to trace the origins of the Barnetts from Nantwich, Cheshire to Boothstown, Lancs. by writing to the parish priest in Nantwich, but appears to have made little progress. See origins of the Barnett family.
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