Looking for decendants of Jesse Barker who was born 28 JAN 1858 in Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England and died JAN 1917 in Shepard, Alberta. 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.

The following were listed in the 1901 census

Jesse b. abt 1858
Emma b. abt 1857
William b. 1879
Mark b. 1880
Ruth b. 1881
Bessie b. 1884
Benjamin b. 1887

I can send you Jesse Barker's homestead records if you want them. Shepherd is near Calgary you are correct.
Catherine

I can send you Jesse Barker's homestead records if you want them. Shepherd is near Calgary you are correct.
Catherine

Catherine,

I will glady take whatever information you have. I have already ordered a book his family was mentioned in. He was one of several family members that came to Canada from England in the 1890's and lived for a while near Kingston Ontario. Several of the brothers settled in Jefferson County in New York, while Jesse and his family headed west.


Scott

Please email me at mac-hawthorne@shaw.ca
Catherine