A Long Time Ago/18 Barne

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Barne

This page is part of A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, the chunked book edition on the Wally Atkins Family Wiki.

  • Book section: Barne
  • Page range in the book: 138-140
  • Chunk order: 18 of 36

This section has been lightly cleaned and reconstructed from the working transcript seam where the Barne material begins most clearly. It preserves the strongest readable Barne material relevant to the Rivers, Ellington, Paynter, and later Atkins branch.

Source note

  • Book: A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
  • Transcript source used: Barne material beginning in `019-myrick.md`
  • Editorial note: the nominal Barne transcript seam was not cleanly separated in the local files, so this page uses the recovered chapter opening from the next transcript seam instead of pretending the chapter boundary is tidy

Cleaned import

The Barne branch matters in this book because it enters the family line through the Rivers family and thus becomes part of the path leading forward into Ellington, Paynter, and the later Atkins branch.

The Barne family in London

The chapter says the Barne family became very prominent in London and Woolwich, Kent, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are described as among the "Merchant Princes" and merchant adventurers of the period, with members of the family serving at various times as Lord Mayors of London.

George Barne and Sir George Barne

The chapter identifies an earlier George Barne as a Haberdasher in the City of London, born sometime in the latter part of the fifteenth century.

His son, Sir George Barne, also a Haberdasher, followed in his father's footsteps. The book says he became Sheriff of London in 1545-1546, Lord Mayor of London in 1552, and was knighted at Whitehall on April 11, 1553. It credits him as one of the first merchant adventurers to Barbary, Russia, and Genoa. He died on February 18, 1557/8 and was buried at St. Bartholomew-the-Less near the Exchange.

Elizabeth Barne and John Rivers

The most important point for the later family line is preserved in the wills cited in the chapter and in the connected Rivers material.

The will of George Barne refers to George, son of John Rivers. The will of Dame Alice Barne, widow of Sir George Barne, makes bequests to her daughter Elizabeth Rivers, to her son-in-law John Rivers, and to their children.

The chapter and related Rivers notes then identify John Rivers as having married Elizabeth Barne, daughter of Sir George Barne. Through that marriage, the Barne line enters the Rivers branch.

This matters because the Rivers line later leads through:

  • Mary Rogers
  • Joshua Rivers
  • Elizabeth (Bettsy) Rivers
  • John Ellington
  • Frances Ellington
  • Thomas Paynter
  • and ultimately into the later Atkins branch

Why Barne matters

The Barne chapter matters because it provides an urban English mercantile background to a line that later becomes part of the Virginia and North Carolina family network. It is also one of the clearer examples in the book of how the later family story depends on marriages that connect very different worlds, in this case London merchant prominence and the Rivers line in Virginia.

Context notes

  • Barne works best when read together with A Long Time Ago/17 Rivers and A Long Time Ago/20 Myrick.
  • The most important family-relevant point here is the marriage of John Rivers and Elizabeth Barne.
  • The chapter was recovered from a transcript seam rather than a clean standalone file, so later refinement may improve it further.

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