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A. G. Barber [18??-19??]
Aaron Barber [1795-1875]
Agnes Marion Barber [1860-1960]
Benjamin Barber [17??-17??]
Benjamin Barber [18??-18??]
Benjamin Barber [1830-1???]
Charlton Barber [1845-1894]
Venerable Edward Barber [1831-1914]
Edward Barber [1893-1915]
Emily Jessop Barber [1850-1878]
Ephraim Barber [1826-1884]
Ethel Barber [1872-19??]
Fairless Barber [1835-1881]
Fred Barber [1871-1949]
Fred Barber [1891-1917]
Rev G. L. Barber [1???-19??]
George Barber [1821-1868]
George Barber [1842-1???]
H. Barber [18??-18??]
Henry Barber [17??-18??]
Henry Barber [1805-1872]
Henry Barber [1819-1883]
Henry Jocelyn Barber [1846-1899]
Herbert Barber [1891-1916]
Rev Hilary Barber [1966-]
James Barber [1865-1910]
John Barber [1727-1810]
John Barber [18??-1???]
John Barber [1800-1883]
John Savage Barber [1859-19??]
Joseph Barber [1805-1862]
Joseph Barber [1837-1899]
Joshua Barber [1???-17??]
Mabel Alice Barber [1863-19??]
Margaret Fairless Barber [1869-1901]
Norman Eric Barber [1881-1971]
P. T. O. Barber [18??-19??]
Samuel Barber [1831-1898]
Thomas Henry Barber [1831-1867]
W. Barber [18??-1???]
William Barber [17??-17??]
William Barber [1768-1844]
William Barber [1801-1869]
William Barber [1809-1859]
William Barber [1819-1???]
Judge William Barber [1833-1892]
William Barber [1840-1899]
William Arthur Barber [1865-1905]
William Cambridge Barber [1839-1910]
William James Barber [1864-1???]
William N. Barber [1???-19??]
William Swinden Barber [1832-1908]
William Thomas Barber [1916-1944]
Willie Ralph Barber [1886-1918]


Barber, A. G.
[18??-19??] Minister at Providence Congregational Church, Stainland. He resigned in 1922

Barber, Aaron
[1795-1875] Son of Henry Barber.

Born in Clifton.

Baptised at Hartshead [3rd May 1795?].

He was a wire drawer in Northowram [1817 ... 1837] / a shop keeper [1841] / a farmer of 30 acres [1851] / a farmer 40 acres employing 1 man [1871]

On 26th January 1817, he married Ann Tidswell [1798-18??] from Northowram at Halifax Parish Church. Ann was dead by 1871.

Children:

  1. George [bapt 1817]
  2. Henry
  3. Ann [bapt 1821]
  4. Martha [bapt 1824]
  5. Susey [bapt 1827]
  6. John [bapt 1829]
  7. Samuel
  8. Sarah [b 1834]
  9. Joseph
  10. Ellen [b 1839]

The family lived at

  • Haley Hill, Northowram [1841]
  • Lower Clay Royd, Southowram [1851, 1871]
  • Park Farm, Southowram [where he died 17th October 1875]

Barber, Agnes Marion
[1860-1960] Daughter of Fairless Barber.

Born in Rastrick.

In 1886, she married Lieutenant John George Haggard RN [1850-1908] at Fulham.


Her husband was the brother of Sir H. Rider Haggard
 

She travelled widely after her marriage.

Children:

  1. Phoebe [b 1886] who was born in the West Indies
  2. Joan [b 1889] who was born in Brest, France
  3. Andrew Rider [b 1892] who was born in Ditchingham, Norfolk
  4. Audry [b 1896] who was born in Austria

The family lived at

  • Norwich Road, Ditchingham, Norfolk [1901]
  • 44 Paultons Square, Chelsea, London [1911]

She wrote poetry, literary criticisms, and several books under the pseudonym of John Berwick Some of her verses were used in books by Sir H. Rider Haggard, including Allan Quatermain. She did some calligraphy which appears on the drawing of a potsherd in She and which baffled a British Museum expert in Greek. She also drew the map written in blood on a shirt-tail which illustrated King Solomon's Mines.

In 1920, she co-authored a biography of her sister, Margaret Fairless Barber, entitled Michael Fairless, her life and writings.

She died at the age of 100

Barber, Benjamin
[17??-17??] A card maker in Brighouse.

He married Mary [17??-1753].

Mary was buried at Hartshead Church

Barber, Benjamin
[18??-18??] Gardener at Halifax.

In January 1854, he was declared insolvent

Barber, Benjamin
[1830-1???] Illegitimate son of Elizabeth Barber of Southowram.

Baptised at St John the Baptist, Coley [23rd April 1830]

Barber, Charlton
[1845-1894] Or Charleton.

Son of William Barber.

He was a card maker [1881, 1891].

In 1870, he joined his brother William in the family's card making business at their mill at Barker Royd, Southowram.

On 29th March 1871, he married Emma Farrar [1848-1930] in Halifax.


Emma was born in Southowram, the daughter of James Farrar
 

Children:

  1. Ethel
  2. Alice [b 1873]

The family lived at

Charlton died 1st July 1894.

Emma died at Savile Park Street [12th February 1930].

Members of the family were buried at St Anne's Church, Southowram [U 29]

Barber, Venerable Edward
[1831-1914] MA. Fourth son of Joseph Barber. Educated at St Peter's School, York and Magdalen College Oxford where he studied mathematics. He was maths tutor of St Peter's College Radley. He took orders [1865]. He was diocesan inspector of schools for Oxford [1872-1883]. He was Rector of Chalfont-Saint-Giles [1883]. He became Archdeacon of Chester [1886]. He was present at the service to reopen the refurbished St Martin's Church, Brighouse [1895]

He married Edith Evitts from Oxford.

Children:

  1. son
  2. son
  3. son

Barber, Edward
[1893-1915] VC.

Son of Sarah Ann & William Barber of Tring, Hertfordshire.

During World War I, he served as a Private with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

He died 12th March 1915 (aged 22).

He is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial [2], and on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance He was awarded the Victoria Cross


For most conspicuous bravery on 12th March, 1915, at Neuve Chapelle. He ran speedily in front of the grenade company to which he belonged, and threw bombs on the enemy with such effect that a very great number of them at once surrendered. When the grenade party reached Pte. Barber, they found him quite alone and unsupported, with the enemy surrendering all about him
 

Barber, Emily Jessop
[1850-1878] Daughter of William Barber.

In 1871, she married John Armitage Atherton.

Her death was registered at Wetherby

Barber, Ephraim
[1826-1884] Son of William Barber.

Born in Thornhill Briggs, Brighouse.

He was a plasterer journeyman [1851] / a plasterer [1861, 1871, 1881]. He and his brother Absalom were both plasterers [1869].

In 1848, he married Hannah Harrington [1825-1915] from Keswick, Cumberland, at Brighouse.

Children:

  1. Mary Jane [b 1849] who married [1870] Charley Jessop in Halifax
  2. Annie [b 1850] who married [1882] Frederick William Waller in Halifax
  3. William [1852-1865]

The family lived at

  • New Close, Brighouse [1851]
  • Thornhill Brigg, Brighouse [1861]
  • 28 Bradford Road, Brighouse [1871]
  • 29 Bradford Road, Brighouse [1881]
  • Bradford Road, Brighouse [1891]

Members of the family were buried at Brighouse Cemetery

Barber, Ethel
[1872-19??] Daughter of Charlton Barber.

Born in Southowram.

In 1901, she was a hospital nurse at the Leeds General Infirmary.

On 15th December 1908, she was made a provisional Staff Nurse in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.

In 1911, she was a trained sick nurse at the McGregor Barracks, Aldershot.

In 1917, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class, by King George V

Barber, Fairless
[1835-1881] FSA, FRHistSoc.

Second son of Joseph Barber. He was a solicitor. His interests included antiquarian topics, archæology, and he was connected with the Brighouse Mechanics' Institute, the Penny Savings Bank, and other institutions. He was a worker for the temperance cause.

On 10th August 1859, he married Maria Louisa Musgrave [1833-1???] from Finsbury, London, at Brighton.

Children:

  1. Agnes Marion
  2. Mabel Alice
  3. Margaret

The family lived at Castle Hill House, Rastrick [1861].

He built South Lodge, Rastrick

Barber, Fred
[1871-1949] Son of Joseph Barber.

He was a farmer [1891] / a farmer and landlord of the Punch Bowl, Boothtown [1901]

In 1897, he married (1) Emily Barlow.


Emily was the daughter of Telemachus Barlow
 

Children:

  1. Willie [n 1898]
  2. Joe [b 1899]
  3. Norman [b 1906]

In 1910, he married (2) Elizabeth Jane Robinson.

Children:

  1. Emily [b 1913]
  2. Alice [b 1915]

Barber, Fred
[1891-1917] Son of William Arthur Barber.

Born in Southowram [3rd November 1891].

He was a quarryman [1911] / employed by James Casson Limited at Norton Mills, Elland.

He lived at 5 Park Road, Elland.

During World War I, he enlisted [March 1916], and he served as a Private with the 2nd/6th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).

He was killed in action at Cambrai [26th November 1917].

He is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial [6 & 7], on Elland War Memorial, on Southowram War Memorial, and on the Memorial at Saint Anne's Church, Southowram

Barber, Rev G. L.
[1???-19??] Vicar at St Mary's Church, Cottonstones [1936]

Barber, George
[1821-1868] Of Lightcliffe.

He married Martha [1816-1853].

George died 2nd August 1868 and was interred at the Stockport Borough Cemetery. There is a memorial to the couple in Mount Zion Chapel, Lightcliffe

Barber, George
[1842-1???] Born in Dukinfield, Cheshire.

He was a green grocer [1891].

He married Grace [1840-1???].


Grace was born in Stalybridge, Lancashire
 

Children:

  1. Herbert [b 1869] who was a mechanic borer [1891]
  2. Emily [b 1873] who was a coating weaver [1891] and married George Broadbent
  3. Mary E [b 1880] who was a worsted spinner [1891]
  4. Alice [b 1883]

The family lived at 190 Boothtown Road, Halifax [1891].

Living with them [in 1891] was grandson Tom Parker [b 1887]

Barber, H.
[18??-18??] Greengrocer at Halifax.

In April 1863, he was declared bankrupt

Barber, Henry
[17??-18??] He married Nancy Barraclough.

Children:

  1. Aaron

The family lived at Hartshead-Clifton [1795]

Barber, Henry
[1805-1872] Of Coldwell Hill Farm, Southowram.

He married Mary [1806-1862].

The couple were buried at Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel, Bank Top

Barber, Henry
[1819-1883] Son of Aaron Barber.

He was a farmer [1851] He was a greengrocer at Copper Street, Halifax [1861], Swine Market, Halifax [1871], and Gibbet Street, Halifax [1861]

He married Jane [1822-1890] from Northowram.

Children:

  1. John [b 1842]
  2. Ann [b 1845]
  3. Samuel [b 1850]
  4. Emma [b 1854]
  5. Alice [b 1857]
  6. Walter [b 1860]

The family lived at

  • Charles Town, Northowram [1841]
  • Range Bank, Northowram [1851]
  • 7 Copper Street, Halifax [1861]
  • Swine Market, Halifax [1871]
  • 15 Gibbet Street, Halifax [1881]

Barber, Henry Jocelyn
[1846-1899] Youngest child of Joseph Barber.

Brother of Fairless Barber.

He was born at 12 Church Lane, Brighouse [9th October 1846].

Baptised at St Martin's Church, Brighouse [1st November 1846].

He was a solicitor [1881,1891].

He founded the West Yorkshire Fire Brigade Friendly Society and was a member of the Brighouse Brigade from 1864 to 1884, becoming Chief Officer at the age of 18. He was also involved in the Royal Insurance Volunteer Fire Brigade for Brighouse and district. The Henry Barber fire engine was named for him. He wrote several pamphlets: Salvage Corps [1873] and Fire inquests [1883].

He was a keen amateur naturalist and kept several kangaroos in a paddock behind his house on Church Lane.

Around 1880, he was involved with the Brighouse Corps of the St John's Ambulance Brigade.

He died at 12 Church Lane, Brighouse [3rd October 1899].

See Brighouse Subscription Fire Escape

Barber, Herbert
[1891-1916] Son of James Barber.

Born in Brighouse.

On 7th February 1914, he married Gertrude Broadbent [1894-1967] at Halifax Parish Church.

They lived at 31 Half House Lane, Hove Edge [1916].

During World War I, he enlisted in Halifax, and served as a Private with the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.

He died in the Balkan theatre [10th September 1916].

He is remembered on the Doiran Memorial, on Brighouse War Memorial, and on the Memorial at Zion Methodist Free Chapel, Hove Edge

Barber, Rev Hilary
[1966-] Vicar of Halifax [2007].

He was a child care officer in Strathclyde and in Lincolnshire. In 1985, he became lay clerk at Coventry Cathedral. In 1993, he became the warden of Catherington House, Portsmouth Diocesan Retreat and Conference Centre. In 1996, he was appointed lay minister of St James Clansfield in the Portsmouth Diocese. After ordination he was appointed curate at St John's, Moston, Manchester. From 2000, he was Vicar at St Clement Church, Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Barber, James
[1865-1910] Born in Southowram.

He was a quarryman fettler [1901].

In [Q2] 1891, he married Emily Oates [1868-1950] in Halifax.


Emily was born in Crawshawbooth, Lancashire
 

Children:

  1. Herbert
  2. Lilian [b 1898]

They lived at 77 Half House Lane, Hove Edge [1911]

Barber, John
[1727-1810] Second child of Joshua Barber.

Baptised at Cleckheaton Independent Chapel [30th July 1727].

He married Sarah Schofield.

Children:

  1. Nancy [bapt 1754]
  2. Betty [bapt 1755]
  3. John [bapt 1758]
  4. Sarah [bapt 1761]
  5. Jacob [bapt 1763]
  6. Joseph [bapt 1765] who married Mary Gill from Mirfield
  7. William

The children were all baptised Cleckheaton Independent Chapel.


Question: In 1820, a Mrs Barber [1724-1820] died at Barker Royd aged 96. Could this be his wife Sarah?

 

Barber, John
[18??-1???] Owned land at Daisy Croft, Brighouse, some of which he would have sold to establish Daisy Croft Baths

Barber, John
[1800-1883] Son of William Barber.

Card maker at Larkfield, Brighouse and Victoria Mills, Brighouse. He lived at Slead Cottage [1845].

In 1874, John & William Barber were listed as card makers at Southowram.

He bought Bonegate Hall from William Ledgard.

He married Sally / Sarah Swinden [1793-1881].

Children:

  1. William Swinden

Barber, John Savage
[1859-19??] Born in Leeds.

He was a boiler maker [1891] / a striker for a blacksmith [1901] / a stoker (stationary engine) [1911]

In 1884, he married Fanny Hopkins [1862-19??] in Halifax.


Fanny was born in Castleford
 

Children:

  1. Willie Ralph
  2. Thomas Hopkins [b 1890]
  3. Thomas Hopkins [b 1890] who was a mechanic fitter machine tools [1911]
  4. Gertrude [b 1893]
  5. Gertrude [b 1893] who was a rover worsted [1911]
  6. Victor 5 Son "
  7. Victor [b 1896] who was an improver for overlooker [1911]

The family lived at

  • 5 New Street, New Pellon, Ovenden, Halifax [1891]
  • 10 Ripon Street, Halifax [1901, 1911]

Living with them in 1901 were boarders Martha Elizabeth Hinnings [aged 20] (worsted twister) and Mary Francis A Hinnings [aged 13] (worsted spinner).

Living with them in 1911 was niece D. Wilde [aged 12] (setter worsted) 

Barber, Joseph
[1805-1862] Son of William Barber.

He was an attorney at law in Brighouse [1846] / a card manufacturer and landowner.

He subscribed £100 to the formation of the Brighouse Town Hall Company [1866].

He was one of a number of attorneys who were

commissioned for taking acknowledgements of deeds executed by married women

In January 1830, he married (1) Dorothy Aspinall [18??-1831].

In October 1832, he married (2) Marianne Thackeray [1811-1875] from Knaresborough.

Children:

  1. William
  2. Fairless
  3. Margaret [1836-1910] who married John Pollard Seddon an architect
  4. John who married Charlotte Downward and became an engineer in Brighouse
  5. Charlotte Millicent [1859-1865]
  6. Edward
  7. Joseph Addison [b 1843] an engineer who married Sarah Carr Dickinson from Leeds
  8. Janet Mary [1844-1845]
  9. Henry Jocelyn

The family lived at

He died 19th March 1862.

His heirs were his wife Marianne, son William and Eliza Thackeray.

There is a memorial to members of the family in St Martin's Church, Brighouse.

See William Kershaw

Barber, Joseph
[1837-1899] Son of Aaron Barber.

Born in Halifax.

He was a coal dealer [1871] / a grocer (master) [1881] / a master grocer at Pellon Lane [1888-1890] / landlord of the Punch Bowl, Boothtown [1890, 1894] / a licensed victualler & farmer [1891].

In 1869, he married Elizabeth Greenwood [1839-1898] in Halifax.


Elizabeth came from Southowram.

She was a worsted weaver [1871]

 

Children:

  1. Fred
  2. Aaron [1875-11th January 1885]
  3. Willie [b 1878]

The family lived at

  • 28 Gibson Street, Halifax [1871]
  • 88 & 90 Pellon Lane, Halifax [1881]
  • Punch Bowl Inn, Booth Town Road, Halifax [1891]

Elizabeth died at the Punch Bowl [15th October 1898].

Joseph died at the Punch Bowl [2nd January 1899]

Probate records show that he left an estate valued at £2,207 to his son Fred.

The couple were buried at St Anne's Church, Southowram [A 19] with son Aaron

Barber, Joshua
[1???-17??] He was an early member of the Barber family.

He married Unknown.

Children:

  1. Susanna [bapt 1725]
  2. John
  3. Ann [bapt 1730]
  4. Joshua [bapt 1731]
  5. Mary [bapt 1733]

The children were all baptised at Cleckheaton Independent Chapel

Barber, Mabel Alice
[1863-19??] Second daughter of Fairless Barber.

Born in Halifax.

On 15th August 1883, she married Joseph Oliver, a solicitor of Littlehampton at St Martin's Church, Brighouse. Her uncle, Rev Edward Barber conducted the ceremony

Barber, Margaret Fairless
[1869-1901] Daughter of Fairless Barber.

Born in Rastrick [7th May 1869].

She worked in the Kilburn Sisterhood hospital at Bermondsey in London. She entered the Mildmay Deaconess Institute. She was a chronic invalid as a consequence of a long-term spinal problem.

She wrote books under the pen-name Michael Fairless:

  • The Gray Brethren – The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse

    You can read the text on Project Gutenberg

  • The Gathering of Brother Hilarius [1901]

    You can read the text on Project Gutenberg

    The story of a 14th-century novice who is sent out from the Monastery to discover life and love. He sees life as England is ravaged by the Black Death

  • The Roadmender [1902]

    A sentimental book of the reflections of a Kent roadmender on his own life and death. The book comprises 3 sections: The Roadmender, Out of the Shadow, and At the White Gate.

    It ends with the sentence

    At the gateway then I cry you farewell

    She completed the book 3 days before her death in 1901

    You can read the text on Project Gutenberg

  • The Richest Man in Todmorden [1???]

She died in Sussex and was buried in the churchyard at St James's Church, Ashurst, Sussex.

A biography entitled Michael Fairless, her life and writings was published [Rastrick March 1920] by William Scott Palmer and Agnes Marion Haggard, her sister

Barber, Norman Eric
[1881-1971] Born 23rd October 1881.

He was Mayor of Halifax [1954-1955]. He was a Freeman of the Borough of Halifax.

He died 26th January 1971

Barber, P. T. O.
[18??-19??] Recorded in 1917, when he was Secretary of the Ryburn [No 1283] Masonic Lodge at Beech Road, Sowerby Bridge

Barber, Samuel
[1831-1898] Son of Aaron Barber.

Born in Northowram.

He was Innkeeper of the Albion Hotel, Claremount [1898].

He married Mary A. [1832-1???] from Oldham.

Children:

  1. Elizabeth A [b 1862]
  2. Martha A [b 1871]

The family lived at

  • Clay Royd, Southowram [with his father 1871]
  • Park Farm, Southowram [where his father died 1875]

He is mentioned in the List of Local Wills: 1898

Barber, Thomas Henry
[1831-1867] Of Field House Farm, Southowram.

In [Q1] 1851, he married Mary Ann Gaukrodger [1829-1873] in Halifax.

Children:

  1. son who married Mary Ann [1864-1909]

Thomas Henry died 22nd June 1867. Mary Ann died 4th August 1873.

Members of the family were buried at Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel, Bank Top

Barber, W.
[18??-1???] He stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in the Election for MP for Halifax [March 1880]

Barber, William
[17??-17??]

He married Unknown.

Children:

  1. Ann [bapt 1730]
  2. Mary [bapt 1732]
  3. John [bapt 1734]
  4. William [bapt 1740]

Barber, William
[1768-1844] Son of John Barber. From Mirfield.

He came to Halifax around 1797.

In 1797, he married Ann Charlton from Dewsbury.

Children:

  1. Mary [1799-18??] who married Robert Fryer
  2. Sarah [bapt 1799]
  3. John
  4. Elizabeth [bapt 1802] who married William Armitage
  5. Sarah [bapt 1804]
  6. Joseph
  7. William
  8. child

The family moved to Barker Royd, Southowram. He became a card maker

Barber, William
[1801-1869] Born in Rastrick.

He was a plasterer [1841, 1851] / a plasterer employing 2 men & 1 boy [1861]

He married Mary [1801-184?]. Mary was dead by 1851.

Children:

  1. Sarah [b 1821]
  2. Ephraim
  3. Absalom [b 1829]
  4. William [b 1840]

The family lived at Thornhill Briggs, Brighouse [1841, 1851]

Barber, William
[1809-1859] Youngest son of William Barber.

Born in Southowram.

He was a card maker [1841] / a farmer of 60 acres employing 5 labourers [1851] / a card maker employing 10 men [1851].

He carried on the family's card making business at their mill at Barker Royd, Southowram.

He married Ann Taylor [1809-18??] from Barkisland.

Children:

  1. Alice Ann [b 1839] who married [1877] William Appleyard, the Vicar of Batley
  2. William
  3. Mary Eliza who married Thomas Bottomley, a surgeon from Huddersfield
  4. Charlton
  5. Emily Jessop
  6. James [b 1814]

In 1851, Alice Ann, Mary Eliza and Charlton were at Miss Elizabeth Hardy's school in Bonegate, Brighouse.

The family lived at

He committed suicide, hanging himself in the Counting House at their Barker Royd mill

Barber, William
[1819-1???] Of Southowram.

He was one of the gang who attacked Thomas Cockcroft and Robert Crossley in 1839.

He was arrested in Dublin and called himself William Thompson. A loaded pistol was found on him, together with a dagger and some sand-paper.

At the trial on 5th March 1840, he was transported to Van Diemen's Land for life. He was one of 330 convicts who left England on the Lady Raffles [30th November 1840]

Barber, Judge William
[1833-1892] QC.

Eldest son of Joseph Barber. He was educated at St Peter's, York and Worcester College Oxford.

In 1859, he married Elizabeth Birch.


Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry Birch, and niece of Rev Joseph Birch
 

In 1862, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was Professor of Real and Personal Property to the Council of Legal Education. In 1882, he was appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel. In 1889, he was appointed Judge of the Derbyshire County Court. He was interested in antiquarian topics

Barber, William
[1840-1899] Son of William Barber.

Born in Southowram.

On the death of his father in 1859, he took over the family's card making business at their mill at Barker Royd, Southowram.

He was later joined by his brother Charlton.

He was a farmer 35 acres employing 2 men [1871] / a wire card manufacturer employing 15 men [1871] / a land owner [1871] / a card manufacturer employing 10 men [1881] / a retired card manufacturer [1891].

In 1862, he married Lavinia Stott [1837-1901] from Greetland, in Halifax.

Children:

  1. Eliza Ann [b 1866]
  2. William [b 1868]
  3. John Austin [b 1869] who was a corn miller [1891] and a farmer [1901]
  4. Henry Taylor [b 1873] who was a corn miller [1891] and a farmer [1901] and a farmer [1901]

The family lived at

  • Barker Royd, Southowram [1871, 1881]
  • 91 Spencer Place, Potter Newton, Leeds [1891]
  • Woodhouse Private House, Hatfield, Thorne, West Riding [1901]

Lavinia died at Manor House, Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster

Barber, William Arthur
[1865-1905] Born in Southowram.

He was a stone miner [1889].

On 30th November 1891, he married Martha Ann Maude Ainley [1870-1938] at St Anne's Church, Southowram.


Martha Ann Maude Ainley [1870-1938] from Marsh Delves, Southowram, in Halifax
 

Children:

  1. child who died young [before 1911]
  2. Fred
  3. Lily [1896-1979] who was a worsted spinner [1911] married [1925] Albert Warrington
  4. Henry Irving [1899-1965] who was a worsted setter [1911]
  5. Hilda [1901-1928] who married [1925] Arnold Brearley, died in the Morton Banks Sanatorium, Keighley , and was buried at St Anne's Church, Southowram
  6. Minnie [1904-1979] who married [1932] Lawrie Earnshaw Halstead

The children were born in Southowram & baptised at St Anne's Church, Southowram.

The family lived at

  • Thorne Tree Cottages, Southowram [1891]
  • 14 Church Lane, Southowram [1911]

William was buried at St Anne's Church, Southowram

Barber, William Cambridge
[1839-1910] FRGS.

Born in Gloucester.

He moved to Halifax between 1872 and 1876.

He was Principal of Crossley Orphanage [1881-1910] / President of the Halifax Choral Society. He was an authority on Shakespeare.

In 1864, he married Mary Maria Milton Starr [1842-1914] in Gloucester.


Mary Maria Milton the eldest was the daughter of James Starr of Gloucester
 

Children:

  1. Amy Mary [b 1866]
  2. Ada Louise [b 1870]
  3. Howard Cambridge [b 1872]
  4. Florence Maude [1876-1954] who married Bernard Outram Osborn
  5. Leonard Cecil [b 1879]
  6. Clement Milton [b 1880]
  7. son

He died 11th February 1910.

Probate records show that he left effects valued at £1,002 6/6d. Probate was granted to his widow Mary Maria Milton

Barber, William James
[1864-1???] Son of Abraham Barker.

He was a cotton spinner [1906]

Barber, William N.
[1???-19??]

He lived at North Park House, Halifax [1936]

Barber, William Swinden
[1832-1908] Brighouse architect.

He was in practice with James Mallinson at George Street, Halifax

Barber, William Thomas
[1916-1944] Son of E. & William Barber.

He married Mary.

They lived at Rastrick.

During World War II, he served as a Private with the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots.

He died 23rd September 1944 (aged 28).

He was buried at the Faenza War Cemetery [III C 17]

Barber, Willie Ralph
[1886-1918] Son of John Savage Barber.

He was scoutmaster at St Hilda's Church, Halifax / an apprentice to a joiner [1901] / a toffee boiler at Mackintosh's [1911] / conductor of Mackintosh's works glee-club.

In [Q3] 1911, he married Elizabeth Chandler in Halifax.

They lived at

  • 6 Ripon Street, Hopwood Lane, Halifax
  • 50 Albert Road, Pellon

During World War I, he served as a Private with the 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.

He died of sickness at the Front [19th January 1918] (aged 32).

He was buried at the Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt [VII D 25].

He is remembered on the Memorial at Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance, on the Memorial at Saint Hilda's Church, Halifax, and on the Memorial at John Mackintosh & Sons Limited

 

The Barber family
There were 3 major branches of the family in the district, all descended from Joshua Barber.

Barber surname
There are over 50 entries on the Calderdale Companion for people with the surname Barber, as discussed in this SideTrack. This count does not include other forms of the surname.

Unattached BMDs for Barber:


Death 1897
 




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