Birth: Unknown
Birth of Daughter: Christianna Barker
Birth of Son: 1623
Name: James Barker
Place: Harwich, Essex Co, England
Immigration: 1634
Note: Sailed for New England in company with Nicholas Easton – died on passage on the ship “Mary and John” ere she reached New England. The ship left Southampton on March 24, 1634 bound for New England. Nicholas Easton came in her with his two sons Peter and John, and so did James Barker and his son James. His daughter, Christianna had come over before with her husband Thomas Beecher. They came in 1630. Christianna had previously been married to Thomas Cooper of Wapping, England, who left her a freehold estate in Harwich, England. After Beecher’s death, she married Nicholas Easton in 1638 becoming his second wife. She died Feb 20, 1665.
Death: AFT 24 MAR 1634 Died at sea (see above immigration note)
parents are Rowland Barker and ?
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parents are unknown
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