Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816 - 1898)

Born 24 Oct 1816 in Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Exton) Barclay — married 1857 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

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Biography

Joseph Gurney, son of Robert and Elizabeth Barclay, was born on 24 October 1816. His birth would have been registered at a meeting of the London and Middlesex Society of Friends.^[1]

In 1841 he was living in Leyton, Essex with all his siblings.^[2]

He married Mary Walker Leathman in Huddersfield in the second quarter of 1842.^[3] How he came to be in Huddersfield has not been determined.

By the 1851 census Mary had died and Joseph was living in Walthamstow with his two young sons. He was a Banker.^[4]

Joseph married again in Hitchen in 1857 - to Margaret Exton. At the 1881 census he was living in Leyton, Essex and his wife was Margaret aged 60, born in Hitchen.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWXG-42B : 11 December 2014), Joseph Gurney Barclay, 24 Oct 1816, Birth; citing p. 171, London & Middlesex, record group RG6, Public Record Office, London.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ2J-BMK : 6 March 2021), Joseph Barclay in household of Robert Barclay, Leyton, Essex, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D46-58K : 13 December 2014), Joseph Gurney Barclay, 1842; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1842, quarter 2, vol. 22, p. 221, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
4. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGVD-Q8Y : 9 November 2019), Joseph G Barclay, Walthamstow, Essex, England; citing Walthamstow, Essex, England, p. 28, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27D-S4Y6 : 12 December 2017), J Gurney Barclay, Low Leyton, Essex, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 8, Piece/Folio 1725/140, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,664.

had 7 children with Margaret Exton