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Last updated: 4 December, 2009

Barnard Family of Beccles, Stockport, &
Manchester, & Associated Families
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The problems with this index (home) page now are sorted out, but were delayed somewhat with a computer crash earlier in the year which occurred as I was attempting to do a computer backup. Consequently I lost a lot of material much of which I have not yet been able to replace.

Please welcome a new cousin who contacted me last week - new in the respect that she was hitherto unknown - and she in turn put me in touch with her mother and aunt.

They are descendants of my grandfather's half-sister Emily (Tinker) Barnard. Emily was a daughter of John Tinker and my great grandmother Mary (Walton) Barnard, but in most of the records I have found referring to her she used the surname Barnard. The most recent common ancestors I and other members of the family share with her are William Walton and Margaret (Tunercliffe/Tunicliffe) Walton. I will update the family trees accordingly as soon as I get the new information sorted out.

Barnard Family - I have recently been going through the registers of the Huguenot churches in England, and a number of possible places where the family lived in England have been found. If I come up with any definite discoveries, I will of course let everyone know.

There are presently nine past newsletters which were distributed to known family members over the past few years detailing research progress and general family news. Additional past newsletters will be added as time permits. Research is continuing on our Barnard branch.

Who Am I ?

My name is Alan Barnard and I was born and raised in Manchester, England. I started researching our Barnard Family in 1971 following the death of my parents who both died in 1970. Fortunately as a child I had always been interested in my parents tales about their respective families, and when my parents visited our home in British Columbia in 1968, I remembered to draw a rough family tree with whatever details they could remember about their parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, and cousins. Although their recall was not perfect, it gave me a start on finding more about my family that I had always had in mind to do one day, and 36 years after starting I am still trying to discover more.

Obviously Genealogy - or family history, is a major interest of mine, but I am also interested in astronomy, photography, all kinds of sports especially football (soccer), and with my wife Christine, I love to travel when we have the opportunity - and of course the money. Both Chris and I are very involved with B.C. Institute of Technology Retirees' Association. I taught for 25 years after working in the electrical industry for 26 years and eventually retired from BCIT in 1994.

The advent of the internet has been an important tool for genealogists since its inception, and to date 6 hitherto unknown cousins have contacted me because of the internet. A word of caution however! All information discovered on the internet should be verified in original sources such as censuses, parish registers, civil registrations, etc.,. Internet information can often be incorrect, and even official sources have their share of errors.
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