Hi Guys,
No one has mentioned the Barnes Family in America. So I just thought I might copy what I found in the book Cootamundra Sons and Daughters. A collection of family stories from the Cootamundra District.2002.
Edward Prior Barnes, met Susanna Maria Gordon, daughter of a London solicitor, on a trip to London in 1871. The Married two years later in Balmain and made their home in Cootamundra, where they had 11 children, only seven of whom survived.
Edward Prior Barnes (John 1812 son) left Cootamundra in May 1896 because of ill health and lived in Sydney until his death in 1900. The remains were returned to Coolamundra for burial.
In 1902 Susanna Barnes married John James Miller, whom she had known for 29 years. He was the brother-in-law ot two of Susanna's daughters, Nellie and Hilda.
J J Miller and his wife, Susanna , sailed for Canada, c1903, settling in Vancouver. Before he left Australia J J established a home for his mother, Rebecca and sisters, Mary, Sarah and Jessie, in Sydney.
Six of Susanna's seven daughters (two of them with their husbands, Alexander Archibald and William Miller and families) joined the family in Canada, as did Compton South Miller (although Compton returned after 12 months in Canada).
The youngest Miller brother, Neil, was left in charge of the Miller family property, Littedale.
Maybe this is where the IGI activity comes from, for John Barnes, 1812.
Regards
Sandra
