William Barney Genealogy

Record modified: 2023-01-20
This is my ancestor 10 generations back.

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William Barney |
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Born: 1680-00-00 England
Died: 1747-00-00 Baltimore, Baltimore Co, Maryland USA
Marriages:
1. about 1721-00-00 Mary Pearson

Children of William Barney and Mary Pearson:
*Ruth Barney b. 1732-01-28


Notes:

immigrated in 1695 to Baltimore MD
He would have been 15 at the time. Were his parents with him? They are not in the index.
See "Immigrants to America before 1750" by Frederick A Virkus.

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possibilities for birth:
1679-04-01 Albrighton near Wolverhampton, Shropshire s/o John Barney + Beteridge
1683-03-23 Hambleden, Buckingham s/o William Barney + Elizabeth
1689-02-08 Colby, Norfolk s/o William Barney + Anna
1673-02-19 Wormingfall s/o Thomas Barney

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married Mary in Baltimore MD
first married c1715 Elizabeth Stevenson c1684 d 1719-09-22 Baltimore MD d/o Edward Stevenson

died before 1747-03-19

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Baltimore Families 1659 - 1759

He owned a 150-acre tract named Morgan's delight and a 100-acre tract called Valiant Hazard.
His widow also owned a 100-acre tract called Timber Ridge and a 100-acre tract called Absalom's Chance.

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This page has:
Abstracts of MD Wills
by Carson Gibb

abstracted from
PREROGATIVE COURT
(Wills)
MSA S538
Liber 25
1746-1748

Liber 25, folio 57-58
20 Feb. 1746/7
BARNEY, WILLIAM, Sr., Baltimore County, planter.
To William Barney, my eldest son, L 6 sterl., already paid to Henry Morgan.
To eldest dau., Martha, wife to Richard Hooker, negro girl Cate.
To son Absalom Barney, the land he lives on.
To son Benjamin Barney, Absaloms Chance.
To 2d son William Barney by my wife Mary, Chilcoats Hazard.
To son Moses Barney, on the d. of my wife, Timber Ridge, bought of John Beard.
To dau. Mary Barney, negro girl Beck.
To dau. Ruth Barney, negro boy Jef.
To wife & extrx., 4 negroes [not named], my e. to be div. equ. among my children by her: Absalom, Benjamin, William, Moses, Mary, & Ruth.
Witn: Job. Evans, John Evans, Jabes Morroy.
19 March 1746, sworn to by all 3 witn, & the widow elected her 1/3.

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children by Elizabeth:
William 1718-03-20 d before 1773 + 1743-01-26 Frances Holland Watts
Martha married Richard Hooker

other children by Mary:
Absolom 1722-10-02 + Mary Ford d/o Thomas Ford + Leah Price
Benjamin c1728 + 1758-04-23 Delilah Bosley d/o Joseph (also had a child by Mary Cross but never married her)
Mary 1730-02-02 + Absalom Butler
Moses + 1758-04-05 Sarah Bond
William Pearson 1735-03-06 (had a child by Elizabeth Marvell but never married her)

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