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Establishment of John Doughty of Salop as father of Francis Doughty (Elder) is made through records obtained by D.M. Scott through the Bristol Record Office. Marriage is shown in the 1623 Visitation of shropshire. In the apprentice records of Bristol, John and Francis Doughty are noted as sons of John Doughty of Duddlewick, Shrop. John Jr. signed on as apprentice to a nercer, Richard Cole and Francis to a merchant John Barker. John Jr. further confirmed his birth place as Duddlewich when he left funds for the parish of Stottesden (his baptismal place) in his will.
BARKER FAMILY
Origin of the name:
The name Barker, though not a very common one, made its appearance during the thirteenth century in parts of the country widely distant from each other, and it is not to be supposed that all those who bore it were in any way related to each other. It was probably derived from the office, or rather appointment of Bercar, a sort of Inspector or Chief Shepherd, whose duty it was to superintend the stint of sheep on the common lands of the manor, especially on Manors of the Royal Demesne. On of the copy holders seems to have been chosen by the rest to act in this capacity, in 7 Edw. 11 (1313) for instance, in the Manor of Pattingham, aduacent to Worfield, John de Herdwyke was elected Bercar by the villagers in place of John Levekyn B.M. Add. Ms. 29. 245, fol. 13a. In days when surnames were only gradually becoming hereditary the fact of a man holding this office for several years would be enough to establish it as his name. The only variant spelling which are met with, "Barcar" and Berker," in early Claverley documents, both go to confirm this derivation. The first recorded occurence of the name is Shropshire is in 1292, when one William Barker was an under tenant at Stanton Lacy, but the only Barker families of any standing in the county in later years believed, as will be seen, that the name was not their original one, but had been adopted in place of another by one of their ancestors."
"Note. The word Bercar or Barcar as used in the twelfth and following cenrury was an Anglicised from the Norman-French word Bercher, a shepherd, and the term Barkary for a sheepfold lingered till Elizabethan times. from about the fourteen century onward the word Barker was applied to a tanner, and at a still later date it came to mean a barker of trees, but these were comparatively nadern uses of the wore and only originated after family names had become established."THE BARKERS OF SHROPSHIRE
"The standard authority for the history of Shropshire families is the collection of Manuscript pedigrees based on the Heralds' Visiations of 1584 and 1623, when representatives of such famileies as claimed the right to bear arms were summoned to appear before a Herald and give account of their ancestry. These pedgrees show five branches of the family of Barker to have been then settled in the county; at Colchurst, Haghmond, Wolverton, Hopton Castle and Aston respectively; but the Barkers of Aston cannot have appeared in person, for their genealogy, through begun , is not brought up to date like those of the other branches. The Visitations trace all these five families to a common ancestor, "William Barker alias Coverall," who married "Margaret daughter and heire to Goulston of Goulston: and one of his sons is shown as the first Barker of Aston. The pedigrees are almost without dates, but as this William Barker alais Coverall was about five generations back from those living at the time of the Visitations he must be place fairly early in the fifthenth century, and all the MSS. Concur is stating that he was decended from one Ralph or Randulph de Coverall, for whom a date is given, 12 Edw. II (1319).
"As interesting suggestion, which seems to have bearing on this, occurs in a note conrributed by Rev. H.B. Smythe to James' Worfield on the Worfe, 1878. ' In the year 1327,' he says, ' one calling himself le Smyth became possessed of Property at Hilton in this manor. In that same year another person calling himself le Barker obtained property at Hallon, which too is in the manor. I am inclined to think that these were both assumed names.' Coming as it does from quite an independent source, this is a remarkable confirmation of what was evidently the old family legend. Now the court Rolls of Worfield, on which Mr. Smythe's note was based, show that William Barker (B III), a grandson of the earlier William le Barker to whom he refers, died at Hallon in 1412, leaving a widow named Margaret or Margery, a person apparently of some consequence, for there was a good deal of discussion about the property to which she ws entitled. Twenty-five years later a John Barker who was almost certainly their son, appears at Aston in Claverley, four miles away, where there had not prevously been anyone of the name and putting these facts TOGETHER I think this lady was probably that daughter and heire to Goulston of Goulston' whose name was so long remembered by her descendants."
It seems then that the early history of the family may have been somewhat as follows. In those tumultuous years when Edward II was fleeng through the West of England from his Queen and his Barons, a son of Ralph de Coverall came from the North to the South of Shropshire, and settled at Hallon, taking, we know not why, the name of le Barker. A hundred years later one of his descendents went to Aston, while another returned to the North, and obtaining property at Colchurst, not far from Claverhall or Coverall, where his forefathers had lived, he very natually assumed the name of Coverall as an alias. Double names were fairly connon in the Middle Ages as they are now, but while nowadays the old and new names are hyphened, they were then connected by the word alias for a few generatons, after which one or the other was usually dropped. so it was that for a time the Barkers of Colchurst and Wolverton, though it does not appear that this disingation was ever actually used either at Worfield, Claverley, or Hopton Castle, where it would have had no associations."
Gabriel inherited Steeton, bolton Percy, Bilbrough, and Newton Kyme under his father's Will. The older son, Thomas, was disinherited by his father William.
The full name of the burial place is St Martin-In-The-Field, Westminister, Middlesex, England.
The full name of the burial place is St Martin-In-The-Field, Westminister, Middlesex, England.
The full name of the burial place is St Martin-In-The-Field, Westminister, Middlesex, England.
The full name of the burial place is St Martin-In-The-Field, Westminister, Middlesex, England.