GEORGE (1860 -  and MARTHA BARKER (1862 - 

The 1891 Census shows the following information with regard to Eveline's family

36 High House Terrace Sheffield (Nether Hallam) - PRO Ref RG12/3795 entry 308

Ten years later the family has grown and moved house but are still living on the same road  

26 High House Terrace Sheffield (Nether Hallam) - PRO Ref RG13/4341 Page No 7 entry 35

Her father GEORGE BARKER shared the same Christian name as his father.

The 1881 Census shows George not married but living with his parents at 

8 Burton Street Nether Hallam Sheffield PRO Ref RG11 Piece Folio 4324/24 Page No 40

Burton Street and High House Terrace are in close proximity to one another and run off Infirmary Road/Langsett Road Sheffield. As a sidenote the lodgers in the house WILLIAM and ANNIE BARE were married in the Ecclesall Brierlow Registration District of Sheffield in the December quarter of 1879. Annie's maiden name was BARTON. (GRO Ref Vol 9c Page 330).  WILLIAM BARE also appears in the 1901 Census. He had moved from Sheffield and was living in Whittington which is on the outskirts of Chesterfield (Derbyshire). He was employed as a Colliery Painter. There is no record in the Census of his wife ANNIE in the Census.  

Apart from Eveline, there are few photographs of the BARKER family. To date the only three I have found are of Eveline's younger brother WILLIS BARKER. WILLIS was born in the Ecclesall Bierlow district of Sheffield in the June quarter of 1898 (GRO Ref Vol 9C Page 375).

The 1911 Census gives the following details

Name Willis Barker
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Gender Male
Age 13 Estimated Year of Birth 1898
Occupation School
Employed Yes
Working at Home No
Place of Birth Sheffield Yorkshire
Enumerator Information
Address 26 High House Terrace Owlerton Sheffield Parish Ecclesall Town Owlerton Sheffield
Type of Building Private House Number of Rooms Four Inhabited Yes
Reference RG14PN27718 RG78PN1587 RD509 SD1 ED18 SN282 Administrative County Yorkshire (West Riding) Registration District Ecclesall Bierlow Registration Sub District Ecclesall North Enumeration District 18

George and Martha had eight children - three males and five females. Eveline BARKER was not on the census as she had married HARRY SIMPSON in July 1909

Going back to WILLIS, he joined the Army in the First World War where he served as an Officer's Batman. The photograph taken below shows WILLIS in uniform with his niece ALICE and nephew JAMES - the exact date and location are unknown.

The next photograph shows WILLIS sitting in a deckchair and would have been taken in the early 1920's.

The second photograph on the right was taken much later, probably soon after the Second World War. It shows WILLIS on the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk. His occupation was a  Butler/Gentlemen's Assistant and as far as I know he was employed for a number of years at a house in the Ely district of Cambridgeshire. 

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