Ernest Albert Barton (1863 - 1956)

Born 13 May 1863 in Hursley, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Eleanor Dawson (Harper) Barton — married 4 Nov 1887 in Christ Church, Whanganui, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 7 Dec 1956 at age 93 in Christchurch, New Zealand

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Biography

Bank Manager for the Bank of Australasia; of Brabourne, Feilding, New Zealand.

Background

He was listed in the 1871 British Census.

New Zealand

He went to New Zealand in 1880 to join an elder brother William Edward Barton.

Marriage and family

On 4 November 1887 by Rev A O Williams, he married Margaret Eleanor Dawson Harper, 3rd daughter of Laura Taylor and Thomas Henry Harper, of Wai Ora, Whanganui, with issue three sons. She died in 1951.

Death and burial

He died on 7 December 1956, aged 93. Their Ashes were Interred on 26 November 1957 at Aramoho Cemetery, Whanganui.

Sources

'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and Genealogical Notebooks, compiled by (his great-grandson) Cranleigh Harper Barton BEM, which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest, Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand (1975).

Abroad - The Travel Journals and Paintings of Cranleigh Harper Barton, by Gerry Barton © 2018, Steele Roberts Publishers, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: https://steeleroberts.co.nz/product/abroad-the-travel-journals-and-paintings-of-cranleigh-harper-barton/.

The Descendants of Robert Taylor, by Sylvia Taylor Robertson (2003).

Henry Barton (1817-1888): https://www.bartondatabase.com/getperson.php?personID=I55821&tree=gbtree.

Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148977058/cranleigh-harper-barton#view-photo=124633239.