Ancestry of
Abraham Lincoln

16th U.S. President

Richard Barnard

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
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  • Kingston, Wiltshire, England 
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  • BY 5 May 1698 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances Lambe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1678 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Kingston, Wiltshire, England 
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  Rebecca Barnard (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  • Notes: 
  • Richard Barnard is said to have came to America with William Penn in 1682. The minutes of a meeting at Chippenham Meeting House on 21 AUG 1682 in Wiltshire, England has the following statement: "This meeting agreeth that John Sparrow and other Friends of Chippenham, do give Richard Barnett [Barnard] (now going to Pennsylvania) the sum of tenn shillings."

• Sources for Richard Barnard

  • ¹ thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 08/12/2011).
  • ² Futhey, J. Smith and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches, Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts and Company (1881), 1416-1417 (page 473 in original).
  • ³ Keiser, David S., "Lincoln's Ancestors Came from Ireland", Lincoln Herald, Winter 1977, Vol. 79, No. 4, page 150.
  • ⁴ Keiser, David S., "Quaker Ancestors for Lincoln", Lincoln Herald, Fall 1961, Vol. 63, Page 136.
  • ⁵ Martin, John Hill, Chester (and its Vicinity,) Delaware County, in Pennsylvania: with Genealogical Sketches of Some Old Families, Philadelphia: Wm. H. Pile and Sons (1877), 408, 436.