Richard Barney

Richard Barney was born in 1781 to parents James and Elizabeth Barney, and Christened at St Peters, Wolverhampton on September 17, 1781.

Field (only fields with a value are shown)	Value
County	Staffordshire
Place	Wolverhampton
Church name	St Peter
Register type	Parish Register
Baptism date	17 Sep 1781
Person forename	Richard
Person sex	M
Father forename	James
Mother forename	Elizabeth
Father surname	BARNEY
Transcribed by	Barb Jones
Credit	Barb Jones
File line number	684

Source: www.freereg.org.uk

We know from Richard's children's baptism records that Richard's wife's name was Ann, and that he worked as a 'Rope Spinner' or 'Rope Maker'.

The children were born between the years 1817-1827 and logically, one would expect the date of Richard and Ann's marriage to be no more than a couple of years before 1817. Unfortunately no marriage record has yet been found.

In the 1841 census, Edwin Frederick Barney (Richard and Ann's last child - born 1827) is found living with a John and Ann Harding. John is aged bet. 65-69, and Ann is aged bet. 50-54. A little research turns up the following details of a marriage between two widowed people, John Harding and Ann Barney.

Note: the following are two sources recording the same event:

Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5VK-PJG 

Since Richard's son Edwin was born in 1827, and his wife Ann re-married in 1834, it's clear that Richard must have died sometime between 1827-1834. Again, unfortunately, no death/burial record has been located.

A further complication exists in that due to both Richard and Ann's relatively mature ages at the time of the birth of their first child (Susannah) in 1817 (Richard approx 35 years old, and Ann bet.26-30), it's not possible to rule out the possibility that one or both of them had previously married. Richard and Ann's marriage record, if it can be located, would indicate whether either of them were widowed. If true in Ann's case, John Harding would have been her third husband.