Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

James Barker

View famous kin of James Barker

• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ernest Hemingway — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 154 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Barker 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wardwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jan 1709 
  • Birth Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jan 1788 
  • Death Location:
  • Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Russell
  • Marriage Date:
  • Oct 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Sybil Barker (Ahnentafel No:77 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give the date of James Barker's marriage to Abigail Russell as 11 OCT 1737, but this appears to be a mis-reading of the LL in Russell as 11.

• Sources for James Barker

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 15, Birth record for James Barker.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 15, Marriage record for James Barker and Abigail Russell.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 18, Birth record for daughter Sibil Barker.
  • ⁴ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 114.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Unknown Volume, p. 4385, Death record for James Barker.
  • ⁶ Barker, Elizabeth Frye, Barker Genealogy, New York: Frye Publishing Co. (1927), 107, 110.
  • ⁷ Chapman, Rev. F. W., The Trowbridge Family, of the Descendants of Thomas Trowbridge One of the First Settlers of New Haven, Conn., New Haven: Punderson, Crisand and Co., Printers and Lithographers (1872), 31, 41-42.
  • ⁸ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 433, 571.