ID: I0232
Name: Jesse BARKER
Sex: M
ALIA: JESSE /LAMBERT/
Birth: 28 JAN 1858 in Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England 1
Death: JAN 1917 in Shepard, Alberta
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Homesteaded Nose Creek, Alberta, abt. 1900
Event: Comment 1 Homestead at Twp 24, R. 28, W. 4
Note:
1871 Census obtained. FHL Film No. 0386887; England, Suffolk County, Occold Parish. Living at "Castle Hill". Surname listed as "Lambert", the surname of Jesse's father's foster parents.
Marriage to Emma Smith extracted from Hartismere registry Entry No. 4a 1131 in Certified Copy of Entry of Marriage No. TE 090418.
1881 Census obtained. FHL Film No. 1341449; England, Suffolk County, Occold Parish. Living at "The Hall". Surname listed as "Lambert" , the surname of his father's foster parents.
This family arrived in Canada in the Port of Quebec on 29 September 1883 aboard the S.S. Parisian, which sailed from Liverpool 02 September 1883. Arrival record obtained; Archives of Canada Film C-4533. On ship's arrival record the family surname is listed as "Barker".
This family settled on a farm on Wolfe Island in the St. Lawrence River just outside the mouth of Kingston Harbour. In 1889 at time of son Benjamin Lee's birth this family was living in Kingston Station, Kingston Township, Frontenac County, Ontario.
1891 Census obtained. Archives of Canada Film No. T-6336; Ontario, Frontenac County, Kingston Twp., C5, P. 21.
At 19 years of age Will, the eldest son, succumbed to the urge to head West.
1898, the year of the Gold Rush lured him to try his luck. But instead of the goldfields he fell in love with the rolling ranchland just east of the Rockies and he turned back from Kamloops to settle and work in the High River - Calgary area of the territory that was to become Alberta some 7 years later.
In 1900 Will, Mark, and their father Jesse, filed homestead claims for 160 acres each some 10 miles east of the town known as Calgary and proceeded to put down roots.
1901 Census obtained. Archives of Canada Film No. T-06551; Alberta, Central Alberta, Nose Creek, F-3, P.7, No. 49.
Father: Thomas BARKER b: 12 JAN 1829 in Aylsham, Norfolk, England
Mother: Eliza DAVEY b: 1831 in Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England
Marriage 1 Emma SMITH b: 27 OCT 1851 in Debenham, Suffolk, England
Married: 25 DEC 1877 in Occold, Suffolk, England
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Jan 1858 - Wickham Skeith Suffolk England 1 2 3
Death: 15 Jan 1917 - Shepherd Alberta Canada 2
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Events
1. Residence 1, 1901 in Nose Creek, Alberta, The Territories, Canada
Parents
Father: Thomas Barker (1828-1917) 2 4 5 6
Mother: Eliza Davey (1831-1896) 2 4 5 7 8
Spouses and Children
1. *Emma Smith (28 Oct 1851 - 1941) 2
Marriage:
Children:
1. William L Barker (1879-1955) 1 2
2. Ruth Barker (1881-1957) 1 2 9
3. Mark Barker (1881-1973) 1 2 4
4. Bessie Barker (1884-1959) 1 2 4 10
5. Benjamin Lee Barker (1889-1917) 1 2 11