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[2 Moore-Hamilton.FTW]
In the book written by my mother, Leora Atkinson Parsons, Limbs, Branches, and Twigs: A Tree of Hamiltons, Barrs, and Atkinsons, she shows how her family was the result of two lines of Hamiltons connected to each other by marriage with Barrs.
John Barr
From Antrim, Ireland, to
Chester County, South Carolina
While her words can not be proven as historical fact, Ella Armstrong Yeakel made an interesting statement in her The Barr Family and Other Allied Families that the Barrs originally came from France and that their name at that time was de la Barre. They were Huguenots, and to escape the great massacre of 1572 they fled north across the English Channel and found refuge in England. Later generations crossed the Irish Sea and settled in Ireland. In the meantime, the name underwent a change. The de la and the final e were dropped, leaving the name simply Barr.
I cannot vouch for the truth of these statements, but the story certainly is possible. There are many instances of names that were changed in that manner.
We do know that our Barr family came from Ireland be-cause of the following facts:
Among papers and a notebook that belonged to my great-great-grandmother Julia Ann Barr Hamilton and were loaned to me by her daughter Mary Hamilton Parker of San Gabriel, California, was an old, faded, brittle manuscript, of which the following is a complete, verbatim copy:
THE BARR CONNECTION TRACED 1868
Old Grand father Barr came from Ireland and settled in South Carolina in
an early day with two sons and one Daughter. His given name was John.
His sons name was John and David. His Daughters name was Jeny. She
married a man by the name of W. M. Lyle. No children. Davids oldest son
was named John. All came over the waters from Old Ireland. John Barr
the second and Nancy Barr his widow still living in Logan County, Ill.
Has children grand children Great grand Children and Great Great Grand
Children 275 in 1868. This is Oct. 16 1914
Dwight and Rosemary Barr write: "A Rev. Lewson is listed as head of the Cairn castle congregation in Antrim County, Ireland, during the late 1700s. A check locates Cairn castle near Larne. Therefore this possibly locates John Jr.s and John Sr.s home in Northern Ireland. Larne is known as a textile center, which might be further verification of John Sr.s trade as a weaver."
Julia Ann's manuscript states that John had two sons and a daughter and that the daughter married W. M. Lyle. Andrew Jackson Barr in his history does not mention a daughter. It is thought that "Jeny" and Mr. Lyle may have been married before they left Ireland and that they came at an earlier date than John and his sons because Dwight and Rosemary Barr found an application for naturalization in Chester County for W. M. Lyle. (None was found for "Jeny.") This application clearly states that Lyle had "been residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States ever since the 17th July 1792."
John, Jr., married Nancy Agnes Hamilton, and they, John, Sr., and "Jeny" and William (W. M.) Lyle, appeared in legal suits, deeds, tax rolls, and so on, in the Chester County Courthouse records of those early years. It was from the deeds that we learn that Jeny's name was Jennet.
JOHN BARR (SR.)1-2-5-7-8-9
b. ca. 1742, Antrim County, Ireland
m. ca. 1760, Ireland.
John Barr's wife died sometime between 1766, when the youngest child was born, and 1792, when he and his children migrated to the United States. (Note: At the 1911 reunion of the Barr family, Andrew Jackson Barr of Webster City, Iowa, read a history of the Barr family which, as reported in the Atlanta Argus, Atlanta, Illinois, 8 Sept. 1911, contained the following statement: "On account of religious persecution our forefathers left Scotland for Ireland, thence to America.") The oldest child is believed to have stopped in North Carolina for a number of years, but the others went on to Chester County, South Carolina. The dates of their arrivals in the United States are found in their applications for naturalization in Chester County Courthouse, South Carolina.
In material that belonged to Mrs. Dwight L. Barr, Sr., there was the notation that John, Sr., died in Gibson County, Indiana, in 1827. Another says, "In the meantime many changes had taken place at the old home in Indiana. John Barr, Sr., had finished his earthly pilgrimage and gone to rest."
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- Title: 2 Moore-Hamilton.FTW
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Text: Date of Import: Aug 21, 2003
- Title: 2770017.ged
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