Person:William Barnes (120)

William Barnes was baptised on 28th July 1725 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire, son of Ann Barnes, formerly Jeeves, and her husband William Barnes, a woolcomber. William was the youngest of the couple's three children. When William was five years old his mother Ann died.

In 1768, William was one of the beneficiaries of his aunt Elizabeth Bennett's will. She was his late mother's sister, and he was left £10.

William had yet to be researched after 1768.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Hitchin. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   1725
   July
   28 was Bap[tize]d William Son of William & Ann Barns, Woolcomber

2.   There is some doubt about whether the child baptised in 1725 was the one who was later his aunt's beneficiary, as there are two burials of children called William Barnes at Hitchin:
   1724
   October 3rd was bur[ie]d Will[ia]m Son of Will[ia]m & Ann Barns - Woollcomber
   
   1726
   February 11th was bur[ie]d Will[ia]m Son of Will[ia]m & Ann Barns - Woollcomber
   [i.e. 11 Feb 1726/7]