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US Lookup Requests / Re: Harry Barnes 1873 Great Somerford to New York (?)
« on: Friday 12 January 24 15:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,
Thanks! This is great. Pleased to hear you are compiling a one place study of Little Somerford. I'd love to see the rest of the research you find - where is it being compiled? My family and I made a trip out there and have some photos that could be of interest to you such as graves, the Volunteer Inn that the Barnes family ran for years, the house Harry Barnes lived in etc.
I have also found a lot of this info since and put it on our family tree on Ancestry (under 'Patenall family tree'). Seems like you have most of it.
You can also add to your research that he also fathered an illegitimate child (my grandfather) with Edna Louise King, who lived in Mortimer where he was stationed in the Canadian Forestry Corps at Upton. His son was called Harry Thomas Barnes-Hunt. Harry Barnes went back to Canada six months before his birth so whether he knew about him or not is a mystery. My grandfather never talked about his father but he used to receive official letters in the post with the surname 'Barnes-Hunt' which my mother was curious about. Ancestry DNA test led us to Harry Barnes!
Would love to find a photo of him so if you ever find one, do let me know.
Thanks so much again for this info.
Thanks! This is great. Pleased to hear you are compiling a one place study of Little Somerford. I'd love to see the rest of the research you find - where is it being compiled? My family and I made a trip out there and have some photos that could be of interest to you such as graves, the Volunteer Inn that the Barnes family ran for years, the house Harry Barnes lived in etc.
I have also found a lot of this info since and put it on our family tree on Ancestry (under 'Patenall family tree'). Seems like you have most of it.
You can also add to your research that he also fathered an illegitimate child (my grandfather) with Edna Louise King, who lived in Mortimer where he was stationed in the Canadian Forestry Corps at Upton. His son was called Harry Thomas Barnes-Hunt. Harry Barnes went back to Canada six months before his birth so whether he knew about him or not is a mystery. My grandfather never talked about his father but he used to receive official letters in the post with the surname 'Barnes-Hunt' which my mother was curious about. Ancestry DNA test led us to Harry Barnes!
Would love to find a photo of him so if you ever find one, do let me know.
Thanks so much again for this info.