1580
Born
about 1580
Estimated Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook. Estimated — inferred, not directly recorded.
William Barber
1580 – 1631
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-06
William Barber was born about 1580 and named, with his brothers and sisters, in his father John's will of 1589 — a boy of perhaps nine when his father died. He married a wife called Mary, held the family's place at Witcham through the first decades of the parish registers, and died about 1631. His sons carried the line on down the century.
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-06
- Birth
- About 1580
- marriage
- To Mary
- Death
- 1631
- Parents
- John Barber and Margaret
- Siblings
- As appeared in his father's Will William Barber Richard Barber John Barber Alice Barber Elizabeth Barber
- Children
- Robert Barber William Barber John Barber
- 1631
- Death of William Barber aged about 51 years
In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook
Family
Parents
Marriage
Children
Life
Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred
1631
Died — aged about 51
1631
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1631
In 1631
1631
Death of William Barber aged about 51 years— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Our research
The generation between the wills
Research · Witcham
William is known chiefly as a son named in his father's 1589 will and as a father in the early Witcham registers. To do: read the Witcham registers from their start (c.1599) for William's marriage to Mary, his children's baptisms and his 1631 burial — the first parish record of the family in its own hand.