Notes for Henry Wood Barret

Notes for Henry Wood Barret

!US Census 1870 (23 July) Kentucky, Jefferson Co., Louisville Ward 5, Louisville PO, Roll M593_474, Sheet 214, Page 547B, House No. 1097-1648, Lines 30-38: H W Barret (b. 1843 - 27 - in KY - Occ: Implement Merchant - Property Value $81,000 + $17,000) married to Emma T (b. 1842 - 28 - in KY) with their child listed as: Mary Julia Barret (dau b. 1867 - 3 - in KY). ALSO LISTED are: J W E Bayley (brother-in-law b. 1839 - 31 - in MD - Occ: Bookkeeper - Property Value $65,000 + $20,000) married to Fanny S (sister-in-law b. 1847 - 23 - in KY). OTHERS LISTED are: Diana Walker (b. 1835 - 35 - in KY - BLACK - Occ: Domestic Servant - Property Value $350); Bettie Dorsey (b. 1846 - 24 - in MS - BLACK - Occ: Domestic Servant); Edmonia Cowan (b. 1846 - 24 - in KY - BLACK - Occ: Domestic Servant); and Nettie Williams (b. 1850 - 20 - in VA - BLACK - Occ: Domestic Servant)

!US Census 1880 (7 June) Kentucky, Jefferson Co., Louisville, Roll T9_423, SD 2 ED 119, Sheet 31, Page 311A, House No. 34, Lines 31-39: Henry W. Barrett (b. 1843 - 37 - in KY - Occ: Woolen Manufacturer - Fa: KY and Mo: KY) married to Emma T. (b. 1842 - 38 - in KY - Fa: KY and Mo: KY) with their children listed (born in KY) are: Mary J. Barrett (dau b. 1868 - 12); and Alex G. Barrett (son b. 1871 - 9). OTHERS LISTED (born in KY as were both parents) are: Dinah Walker (b. 1835 - 45 - BLACK - Occ: Servant); Susan Lee (b. 1835 - 45 - MULATTO - Occ: Servant); and Mary Logan (b. 1850 - 30 - MULATTO - Occ: Servant)

!INFORMATION found at - History of Kentucky, on the web at - http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dbenton&id=I0041:
Henry Wood Barret first attended the schools of Hart county and concluded his education in Louisville, Kentucky, where he embarked upon a business career early in life. He became well known in business circles as president of the Eclipse Woolen Mills. He was a man of quiet, lovable character and of retiring nature, shunning notoriety, but he assumed large responsibilities and was admired and respected by all who knew him. For a period of forty-three consecutive years he was in the vestry and chapel service of Christ Episcopal cathedral. Mr. Barret had attained the advanced age of eighty years at the time of his death on the 24th of January, 1923, having for more than a third of a century survived his wife, who died September 3, 1887.
The wife of Henry W. Barret bore the maiden name of Emma Tyler. She was born May 17, 1842, and was a daughter of Robert and Mary Lawrence (Chambers) Tyler and a granddaughter of Edward Tyler, who came to Kentucky with George Rogers Clark. Edward Tyler was the father of eight children. His son, Robert Tyler, married Mary Lawrence Chambers, the only child of William Chambers and Mrs. Mary (Lawrence) Dorsey, a widow. The last named was a daughter of Levin Lawrence and first became the wife of Elias Dorsey of Maryland, after whose death she removed from Maryland to Kentucky to make her home with her father. In this state she gave her hand in marriage to William Chambers, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Henry W. Barret. The Lawrence genealogy is traced back to Major Edward Dorsey, a native of England, who held many offices following his emigration to this country. He served as captain of militia in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, in 1686, as major in 1687, 1689 and 1694, was a judge of the high court of chancellery in 1695 and a member of the Baltimore county assembly from 1701 until 1705. Another ancestor, Samuel Owens of Maryland, was a representative of Baltimore county from 1758 until 1761 and served as justice and court commissioner from 1744 until 1768. Benjamin Lawrence was on the committee for Desmond Hundred, Baltimore county, Maryland.