2. MILLICENT MAXY MAGGIE BARKER
CALLED MAXY. ADOPTED EDWARD, HER SISTERS CHILD. HER HUSBAND A BRICKLAYER.
I HAVE GIVEN THIS PERSON TWO NO'S SEE ALSO NO 262 AS THE COMPUTOR CANT SHOW HIM OTHERWISE - SEE NOTES 262
HE WAS LEGALLY ADOPTED MY HIS MOTHER, DORIS BARKERS, SISTER MAXY ELLIOTT
3. AMY EVERLYN GERTRUDE BARKER
KNOWN AS EVERLYN
BAP. CHURCH OF THE PROVINCE - DUNDEE. HER SPONSORS WERE EVERLYN LOUISA BIRD AND AMY ELIZABETH WHITE. SHE MUST HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER THEM. HER UNCLE JAMES HENRY PAYNE ALSO ATTENDED THIS BAP. HER FATHER HAB IS DESCRIBED AS A PAINTER. SHE WAS CREMATED 30-11-76 IN BRAAMFONTEIN. SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN LIVING APART FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. IT SEEMS SHE LEFT HIM WHILE THE CHILDREN WERE STILL YOUNG - HE BROUGHT THE CHILDREN UP AND THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CONTACT WITH HER OVER THE YEARS. SHE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC AND LATERLY LIVED WITH HER SISTER MAXY IN A SMALL
ROOM IN THE BACKYARD. SHE MADE BEAUTIFUL DOLLS CLOTHS AND MADE CURTAINING ETC FOR OTHERS. LATER SHE WAS PUT INTO A HOME WHERE SHE DIED. BOTH HER DAUGHTER IN LAWS (THE OPIE SISTER) DID NOT GET ON WITH HER THUS THE GRANCHILDREN DID NOT REALLY VISIT HER.
ACCORDING TO DEATH CER DATE OF BIRTH WAS 28-10-1896
KNOWN AS MURIEL. BAPTISED NATALIE MURIEL MAY - BUT SHE BELIEVED THE MAY WAS INCORRECT AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN MARY - HER BIRTH CER.
INDICATES THE NAME MARY AS CORRECT. AT HER BAP. - A JOHN R.S. PAYNE WAS HER SPONSER - WAS THIS A MEMBER OF THE PAYNE FAMILY? IT WOULD SEEM THAT HER FATHER DID NOT ATTEND THIS SERVICE.
ACCORDING TO HER GRANDSON HER MARRIAGE DATE WAS 8 JULY 1921 ACCORDING TO DEATH CER SHE WAS BORN 26 MARCH 1901?
SHE DIED 3 DAYS BEFORE DEATH OF HER MOTHER - BOTH DIED OF PNEUMONIA. SHE IS BURIED IN BRIXTON CEM.
SEE ALSO R262, R255, R263, R257
THEY WERE NEVER MARRIED
HER FATHER AND MOTHER WERE NEVER MARRIED
HE WAS A JOINER BY TRADE.
7. ALBERT HORACE (SONNY) BARKER
NORMALLY CALLED HORACE OR SONNY. HE WAS A SALESMAN.
JOHN NEVER MARRIED AND LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER UNTIL HER DEATH
8. GEORGE ARCHIBALD POMEROY BARKER
KNOWN AS ARCHIE. NAMED AFTER GENERAL SIR GEORGE ARCHIEBALD POMEROY COLLEY - UNDER WHOM HENRY ALBERT SERVED.
HE WAS A PRINTER BY TRADE. WAS AWARDED MEDAL FOR 35 YEARS SERVICE AS PRINTER. SERVED IN THE 2ND WORLD WAS AS AN AIRCRAFT HAND AND ALSO AS A COOK IN THE 24TH SQUADREN. MEDALS AWARDED (A) 1939-45 STAR, ITALY STAR, THE WAR MEDAL (1939-45) AFRICA SERVICE MEDAL.
TWO OF HIS BEST FRIENDS WERE PERCY CEEF (SEEF) - THE JEWISH ACTOR AND SAM PETZER - LEADER OF A 'BOERE ORKES'
MARIA MAGDALENA (MONA) COETZEE
MARIA WAS THE 6TH COUSIN OF HER DAUGHTER IN LAW HESTER HER NICKNAME WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER WAS TICKEY AND LATER IN LIFE SHE WAS CALLED MONA - DONT KNOW WHERE THE NAME MONA COMES FROM BUT WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG SHE ALWAYS ASKED FOR A TICKEY AND WAS THUS SO CALLED.
AT ONE STADGE SHE WAS MANGERES AT STATIONERS ENGRAVING 15 NURSERY ROAD FORDSBURG
BURIED WESPARK CEMETARY, JOHANNESBURG
AS A RESULT OF HER FATHERS DEATH AND POVERTY SHE HAD TO LEAVE HOME AT A VERY EARLY AGE - 11 YEARS OLD AND HAD TO START WORKING. SHE MET HER HUSBAND AT AGE OF 12. THEY LOVED EACH OTHER VERY MUCH AND WHEN SHE DIED HE BECAME A HERMIT LIVING IN A HOTEL IN JOHANNESBURG UNTIL HE DIED.
WAS HER SURNAME NOT BEAGLE?