1819
Born
12 June 1819 at Littleport
June 12th 1819, Littleport— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Jacob Barber
1819 – 1899
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-06
Jacob Barber was born at Littleport in the summer of 1819 and baptised, like his own children after him, at the Wesleyan chapel of St Mary's in Ely. He was one of Wenham and Elizabeth Barber's ten, and he stayed to work the fen he was born to.
In 1842 he married Hannah Padget at St George's, Littleport — a Padget, of a family the Barbers married into more than once. When the census found him in 1851, at Whelp Moor, he was a farmer's bailiff: a man set a little above the labourers about him, with a house, a wife, three small daughters and a lodger under his roof. It did not hold. Ten years on he was entered plainly as an agricultural labourer, the family removed to Croft Hills — the quiet slippage of a fen family as the old work thinned.
In the 1870s Jacob left the fen with his married daughter Rachel and her husband for Hull, where the Barbers of the drained levels became a city family. He died there in 1899.
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-06
- Birth
- June 12th 1819, Littleport
- Baptism
- July 4th 1819, Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely (Parish records)
- Marriage
- October 11th 1842 to Hannah Padget in St. George's Church, Littleport
- Death
- 1899, Hull (BMD Sculcoates) aged 80 years
- Parents
- Wenham Barber and Elizabeth Walker
- Siblings
- Sarah Barber baptised January 6th 1805, Littleport Whenham Barber baptised May 13th 1810 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely Susannah Barber baptised June 18th 1812 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely William Barber baptised April 18th 1814 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely John Barber baptised December 8th 1816 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely Jacob Barber baptised July 4th 1819 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely Mary Barber born 1821 baptised June 14th 1835 Littleport Rebekah Barber baptised June 13th 1825 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely Rebeca Barber baptised February 3rd 1828 Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely
- Children
- John Barber baptised December 25th 1842 Littleport Mary Barber baptised August 31st 1845 Littleport Rachael Barber baptised April 9th 1848, Wesleyan Methodist Ely Susan Barber baptised September 23rd 1849,Wesleyan Methodist, Ely Mahala Barber baptised April 17th 1852 Littleport, burial April 21st 1852 Jabez Barber born 1853, Littleport Elizabeth Barber baptised November 24th 1857, Wesleyan Methodist, Ely Alfred Barber baptised April 3rd 1860, Haddenham Hannah Kesiah Barber baptised November 30th 1863, Haddenham burial May 24th 1875, Hull Eliza A Barber born 1866 Littleport
- 1841c
- Living in Littleport Elizabeth Barber, 1786, aged 55 born Cambridgeshire Jacob Barber. 1821, aged 20 born Cambridgeshire Mary Barber, 1826, aged 15 born Cambridgeshire Address: Sandhill, Littleport Occupation of Mother: Schoolmistress
- 1842
- Marries Hannah Padget on the 11th of October in St. George's Church Littleport
- 1851c
- Living in Littleport Jacob Barber, 1820, Head, aged 31 born Littleport Hannah Barber 1823, wife, aged 28, born Littleport Mary Barber, 1846, daughter, aged 5, born Littleport Rachel Barber , 1848, daughter, aged 3, born Littleport Susan Barber, 1850, daughter, aged 1, born Littleport Frederick Page, 1823, lodger, born Walsam, Suffolk, Farm Labourer Address: Whelpmore Occupation Farmer/Bailiff
- 1861c
- Living in Littleport Jacob Barber, 1820, Head, aged 41. born Littleport Hannah Barber, 1821, wife, aged 38, born Littleport Rachel Barber , 1848, daughter aged 13, born Littleport Susan Barber, 1849, daughter, aged 12, born Littleport Jabez Barber, 1854, son, aged 7 born Littleport Elizabeth Barber, 1858, daughter, aged 3, born Littleport Alfred Barber, 1860, son, aged 1 born Littleport Address: Croft Hills Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
- 1871c
- Living in Littleport Jacob Barber, Head, 1820, aged 51, born Littleport Hannah Barber, 1822, wife, aged 49, born Littleport Jabez Barber, 1854, son, aged 17, born Littleport, Ag Lab Elizabeth Barber, 1858, daughter, aged 13, born Littleport Kesiah Barber, 1864, daughter, aged 7, born Littleport Eliza A. Barber, 1867, daughter, aged 4, born Littleport Alfred Barber, 1860, son, aged 11, born Littleport, Ag Lab Address: Croft Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
- 1871-1875
- Move to Hull, Yorkshire
- 1875
- Death of daughter Hannah Kezia. Burial May 24th,1875
- 1881c
- Living in Hull Jacob Barber, 1820, Head, aged 61, born Littleport Hannah Barber, wife, aged 59, born Littleport Eliza A. Barber, daughter aged 14, born Littleport Thomas Chambers, lodger, aged 80 years Address: 9 Ely Terrace, Hessle Road, Hull Occupation: General Labourer
- 1891c
- Living in the parish of St, Paul's, Hull Jacob Barber, aged 71, born 1820, Littleport Hannah Barber, aged 69 years, born 1822, Littleport Address: 13, Rowland Terrace, St. Paul Street, Hull Occupation: Bricklayer's Labourer
- 1893
- Death of Hannah Barber aged 72 years, Hull
- 1899
- Death of Jacob Barber aged 79 years, Hull
In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook
Family
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1819
Baptised Wesleyan — St Mary's, Ely
4 July 1819 at Saint Mary Wesleyan
July 4th 1819, Saint Mary Wesleyan, Ely (Parish records)— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1841
Census · 1841
1841
Living in Littleport Elizabeth Barber, 1786, aged 55 born Cambridgeshire Jacob Barber. 1821, aged 20 born Cambridgeshire Mary Barber, 1826, aged 15 born Cambridgeshire Address: Sandhill, Littleport Occupation of Mother: Schoolmistress— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1842
Married Hannah Padget
11 October 1842
October 11th 1842 to Jacob Barber— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1851
Census · 1851
1851
Jacob Barber — Head — married — aged 31 — Farmer Bailiff — born Littleport, Cambridgeshire. With Hannah his wife (28); daughters Mary (5), Rachell (3), Susan (1); and a lodger, Fredrick Page, farm labourer.— 1851 census — Whelp Moor, Littleport
Read at the image record Evidence
Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:
- 1851 census — Whelp Moor, Littleport — 1851 Census — The National Archives HO 107/1764, folio 741; Ely registration district, Littleport sub-district, enumeration district 2D; Whelp Moor, Littleport. Read from the original enumeration page (findmypast image), 6 July 2026. His neighbour on the leaf, Clement Tubbs, was a farmer's bailiff too — Whelp Moor was a settlement of them. read at the image
1861
Census · 1861
1861
Living in Littleport Jacob Barber, 1820, Head, aged 41. born Littleport Hannah Barber, 1821, wife, aged 38, born Littleport Rachel Barber , 1848, daughter aged 13, born Littleport Susan Barber, 1849, daughter, aged 12, born Littleport Jabez Barber, 1854, son, aged 7 born Littleport Elizabeth Barber, 1858, daughter, aged 3, born Littleport Alfred Barber, 1860, son, aged 1 born Littleport Address: Croft Hills Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1871
Census · 1871
1871
Living in Littleport Jacob Barber, Head, 1820, aged 51, born Littleport Hannah Barber, 1822, wife, aged 49, born Littleport Jabez Barber, 1854, son, aged 17, born Littleport, Ag Lab Elizabeth Barber, 1858, daughter, aged 13, born Littleport Kesiah Barber, 1864, daughter, aged 7, born Littleport Eliza A. Barber, 1867, daughter, aged 4, born Littleport Alfred Barber, 1860, son, aged 11, born Littleport, Ag Lab Address: Croft Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1871
In 1871
1871
Move to Hull, Yorkshire— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1875
In 1875
1875
Death of daughter Hannah Kezia. Burial May 24th,1875— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1881
Census · 1881
1881
Living in Hull Jacob Barber, 1820, Head, aged 61, born Littleport Hannah Barber, wife, aged 59, born Littleport Eliza A. Barber, daughter aged 14, born Littleport Thomas Chambers, lodger, aged 80 years Address: 9 Ely Terrace, Hessle Road, Hull Occupation: General Labourer— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1891
Census · 1891
1891
Living in the parish of St, Paul's, Hull Jacob Barber, aged 71, born 1820, Littleport Hannah Barber, aged 69 years, born 1822, Littleport Address: 13, Rowland Terrace, St. Paul Street, Hull Occupation: Bricklayer's Labourer— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1893
In 1893
1893
Death of Hannah Barber aged 72 years, Hull— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1899
Died at Hull, aged 80
1899
1899, Hull (BMD Sculcoates) aged 80 years— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1899
In 1899
1899
Death of Jacob Barber aged 79 years, Hull— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Our research
The move to Hull
Research · Littleport & Hull
The 1851 Whelp Moor return is read at the image; the 1861 Croft Hills household (Jacob an agricultural labourer) is Mum's transcription. To do: read the 1861 census and the family's first Hull census at the image, to pin the year of the move and Jacob's work in the city; his 1819 Wesleyan baptism (RG4) and the 1842 Littleport marriage register would confirm both ends.