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Ancestor #47

Anna Maria Barkley (1808-1865)

Anna Maria Barkley was born in Albany County, New York on 18 December 1808 and died in Oxford County, Ontario on 6 May 1865. She was baptized in St. Paul’s Lutheran Churchⁱ in Berne, Albany, New York on 12 Mar 1809. She is the daughter of Mathias and Margaret (Koch or Kock) Barkley. She married 1) on 16 August 1824 John Winegard born on 10 October 1801 in Albany County, New York and died in Mountain, Dundas, Ontario, Canada on September 3, 1858 and 2) on 4 Jun 1860ⁱⁱ in Mountain William Taylor born about 1808 in Ireland.

The Barkleys are a German Palatine family. Eberhard Buercklin and his family came to North America from Baden-Wuerttemberg to farm on Rensselaer’s estate in Albany County. As the English speaking officials began adding this family to historical records, the name became Barkley, Berkley, Barclay and even Perkly. Perkly is the only one not found in Eberhard’s descendants.

John and Anna Maria lived in New York for about the first 20 years of their marriage. They had 6, possibly 7 children, born in New York. In 1830 they were enumerated in Westerlo, Albany Countyⁱⁱⁱ – 1 male under 5, 1 male 30-39, 1 female under 5, 1 female 20-29. The female under 5 was Margaret, the older male and female were Maria and John but the male under 5 has not been identified. There is a 7 year span between Margaret’s birth and the next child, Charity, so it is highly likely they had another child who died young.

The family moved to Mountain sometime after April 1841 when daughter Mary J. was born and before 1845 when son Mathias was born. Anna Maria’s parents and all of her siblings were living there.

They are enumerated in the 1851 census^iv of Upper Canada living in Mountain. The family consisted of John, Mariah, Charity, Abraham, Amy, Polly, Mary J., Matthias and Isaac J. Daughter Margaret had married in 1846. After John’s death in 1858, Anna Maria married and moved with her husband to East Nissouri, Oxford County, Ontario. She is enumerated there in the 1861 census^v.

I have autosomal DNA matches that point to John Winegard and Anna Maria Barkley as the most recent common ancestral couple. Charity Winegard is my great great grandmother. I have Ancestry DNA matches to descendants of four of her siblings - her sister Margaret through her son Adam Barkley, her sister Mary J. through her son James Jackson, her sister Polly through her son Edward Jesse Lennox and her brother Abraham through daughter Gertrude’s son Herbert Wadleigh and through daughter Lillian’s son James Park.

Children of John and Anna Maria (Barkley) Winegard:

i. Margaret Winegard. b. 24 Aug 1825 in Sharon, Schoharie, New York, d. 16 Dec 1901 in Castle, McPherson, Kansas, m. 2 Feb 1846 John Barkley, b. 5 May 1828 in Williamsburg, Dundas, Ontario, d. 24 Nov 1884 in Castle.

ii. Charity Winegard. b. Mar 1833 in Sharon, d. 1909 in St. Thomas, Pembina, North Dakota, m. 1854 in Mountain as his second wife, Reuben Elijah Van Camp, b. 7 May 1826 in Mountain, d. 17 Apr 1888 in St. Thomas.

iii. Abraham Winegard. b. 27 Dec 1834 in Sharon, d. 1 Apr 1905 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, m. 1) 2 Feb 1858 in Kemptville, Grenville, Ontario Lovina Mills, b. 19 May 1844 in Mountain, d. 31 May 1873 in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa and 2) Lucy Ella Green on 7 Feb 1882 in Dunlap, Harrison, Iowa, b. 7 Jun 1858 in Griswoldville, Middlesex, Connecticut and d. 27 Oct 1932 in Omaha.

iv. Amy Emma Winegard, b. 13 Aug 1837 in New York, d. 26 Aug 1910 in Odebolt, Sac, Iowa, m. 2 Apr 1857 in Mountain, Samuel McFarland, born 10 Mar 1827 in County Tyrone, Ireland and d. 16 Jul 1909 in Odebolt.

v. Polly Winegard, b. Jan 1839 in New York and d. 13 Aug 1900 in Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence, New York, m. 1864 in New York, Charles Lennox, b. Mar 1839 in Canada and d. 24 Jan 1918 in Oswegatchie.

vi. Mary J. Winegard, b. 16 Apr 1841 in New York, d. 16 Jun 1912 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, m. 3 Jan 1862 in Kemptville, Isaac Andrew Jackson, b. 7 May 1836 in Mountain and d. 1 Nov 1917 in Iowa City, Wright, Iowa.

vii. Matthias Winegard, b. 1845 in Mountain, d. 20 Dec 1872 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

viii, Isaac Jacob Winegard, b. 1848 in Mountain.

i “New York State religious records, 1716-1914”, database, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYB&G), hosted by FindMyPast.com (http://www.findmypast.com : accessed 1 Oct 2018), Anna Maria Berkle, bap 12 Mar 1809, born 18 Dec 1808, citing Royden Woodward Vosburgh, ed., “St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Town of Berne, Albany County, N.Y.”, transcribed by the NYG&B, Vol 1, p. 27.

ii “Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936”, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 1 Oct 2018), marriage of William Taylor and Maria Winegard, 1860, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

iii 1830 US census, Albany County, New York, population schedule, Westerlo, p. 484 (written), line 2, John Winegard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2016), citing National Archives and Record Administration microfilm M19, roll 84.

iv 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Dundas County, Canada West, schedule A, Mountain, district 5, sub-district 36, p. 17, line 24, John Winegard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2016), citing Library and Archives Canada microfilm, roll C_11717.

v 1861 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Oxford County, Canada West, schedule A, East Nissouri, p. 71, Mariah Taylor; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2016), citing Library and Archives Canada microfilm, roll C-1060.