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Margaret Elizabeth Barnes Auntie May, my great aunt Margaret Elizabeth Barnes (nee Stringer), was born 1897 in Essex. When she was about 15 years old, she had waist length golden yellow hair. Whilst out with friends boating on a lake near her home, she fell overboard. She could not swim nor could any of her friends. However, when she rose to the surface for the second time, someone was able to grab her long golden hair and pull her into the boat to safety. She never learned to swim - after that incident in the lake she was terrified of the water. This incident did not appear to have harmed her, for she had lived to the good age of 100 by the time of her death in 1997. Submitter: Jack Hodges Alfred John Barnes Alfred John Barnes was born on 17 July 1887 in Silvertown, Plaistow, West Ham, Essex, England. About 1894, Alfred had an accident in his school playground, and as a result lost a leg. He was fitted with a wooden leg. (In his later married life, he kept a spare wooden leg, because one of them creaked and his wife didn't like it!). 1901 - Student at The Essex Industrial School. 1921 - Occupation Artist in Gold and Silver. 1914-1923 Chairman of the London Cooperative Society and a founder of the Cooperative Party. 1921 - he married Leila Phoebe Real who was of German descent, and they had three children. 1922 - Member of Parliament for East Ham South. 1924-1945 Chairman of the Cooperative Party. Appointed as Labour Party Whip in 1925. Served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury. Resigned in 1930 and lost his seat in 1931, but regained it in 1935. 1945-1951 - Made a Privy Counsellor, and Minister of War Transport, and later Minister of Transport. In 1951 the Labour Government fell, and in 1955 he stood down at the General election. He later moved to Walton-on-the-Naze, Suffolk where he remained until his death on 26 Nov 1974. Submitter: Jack Hodges William Edwin Barnes
H. C. Barnes Scholars names who attended King Edward VII School, Sheffield in 1922. Probably: Hugh C. Barnes, married, was born on 05 January 1905 and lived with Hilda M. Barnes (aged 33 years) and Eliza E. Barnes (aged 59 years) in Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England in 1939. He was a schoolmaster. He died during the 1st quarter of 1968 in Sheffield. Rebecca Barnes Rebecca Barnes, b. 1812 Oxfordshire, m: Alfred Savory. Submitter: Linda Robertson
John Barnes Passengers of the "Celtic" from Liverpool via Queenstown to New York. The arrival was on 22 December 1888.
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