Birth: 9 July 1903 Barnet, Middlesex, UK
Father: Walter Barnard 1867-1945
Mother: Ellen Maria Aldridge [Wille] 1867-1916
Christening: 27 December 1903 Christ Church, Barnet, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: October-December 1927 Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Wife: Dora May Stone 1908-1970
Death: November 1991 Reading and Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Philip William Barnard 1928-1998
Dawn M Barnard 1930
Derek Edwin Barnard 1931
Robin Walter Barnard 1934-1994
Eldred C Barnard 1939
Sylvia E Barnard [Deadman] 1940-a1973
Birth of William Claydon Barnard in FreeBMD in July-September 1903 in Barnet (3a 386).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for William Clayton (sic) Willie Barnard baptised 27 December 1903 at Christ Church, Barnet, parents Walter and Ellen Maria Barnard. "Page 45 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Christ Church, Barnet in the County of Middlesex in the Year one thousand nine hundred and three [...] 1903 Dec 17 No. 353 William Claydon Willie [sic] [parents] Walter, [an] Ironmongers Assistant, & Ellen Maria [of] 11 Puller Road, Barnet (Born 9th July 1903)". I assume his third name was Wille from his mother's first marriage.
In the 1911 census as William Barnard aged 8, born in High Barnet, Hertford, female (sic - in the index, male on the original) and boarding with George Payne (aged 44, born in Ashurst, Sussex and a market gardening labourer), his wife (Caroline aged 48, born in Cows, Isle of Wight, married fo fifteen years with one child, still living), daughter (Gladys Eva aged 14 and born in Botley, Hampshire), and three other boarders (Ernest Fincham aged 6 and born in Clerkenwell, London, Cecil Fincham (female in the index, male on the original, aged 8 and born in Clerkenwell, London, and Arthur Speechly aged 7 and born in West Ham, London) in six rooms in Botley Green, Botley, Hampshire. His mother was living at 25 Stafford Road, High Barnet, married but deserted three years, a needlewoman living on her own account, and with her two children from her first marriage.
Marriage of William C Barnard and Dora M Stone in FreeBMD in October-December 1927 in Wokingham (2c 1161).
Ten entries in Ancestry Berkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1965 for William Clayton (sic) Barnard addresses 22 Council Cottages, Ruscombe, Windsor in 1928 and 1929, other occupant Dora May Barnard (wife?) in 1929, and 5 Recreation Road, Wargrave, Windsor from 1930 to 1939, other occupant Dora May Barnard (wife?).
His six children were born in Wokingham from 1928 to 1940.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as William C Barnard born 9 July 1903, married, a foreman carpenter, and living with Dora M Barnard (wife?), Philip W and Robin W Barnard (sons?) and one other at 5 Recreation Road, Wokingham, Berkshire.
Seven entries in Ancestry Berkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1965 for William C Barnard address 5 Recreation Road, Wargrave , Wokingham from 1945 to 1952, other occupany Dora M Barnad (wife?) (in 1949 Phiolip William Bardnard (son?) was living at No. 3 and in 1952 Derek Edwin Barnard (son?) was living at No. 3), and eight for for William Claydon Barnard address 3 Recreation Ground, Wargrave, Wokingham from 1956 to 1964, other occupant Robin Walter Barnard (son?) from 1957. His wife was living at No. 5.
His wife died in Maidenhead in 1970.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Barnard, born 9 July 1903, in November 1991 in Reading and Wokingham (19 553).
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Claydon/Clayton Barnard.
Note that parts of Barnet were in Middlesex and parts in Hertfordshire until 1965.
William Claydon Wille Bernard was the father of Sylvia E Barnard, wife of Christopher James Deadman, my frst cousin.
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