Dear Pat, Dorset FHS via Find my Past has: Dorset Memorial Inscriptions: Deathday: Not given Death year: 1886 Birthday: Birth year: 1801 Age: Not stated Title: Parson Forenames: William Surname: BARNES Place name: Place: Dorchester Dedication: St Peter Denomination: C of E County: Dorset Country: England Relation: Monument: Statue Grave reference: 2309 This William BARNES (Rector, aged 80, born Sturminster Newton) appears on the 1881 Census living in the Rectory at Winterborne Came with his daughter Laura BARNES (aged 48, born Mere, Wilts) Regards Vanessa Dorset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Hayward" <hayward325@btinternet.com> To: <DORSET@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:03 PM Subject: [DOR] William BARNS > Hello > There is a Death Registration for William BARN(E)S aged 86 > December quarter Dorchester 5a 205. I was wondering if anyone had burial > information for him please. > > William's wife Sophia was buried at Melcombe Regis Cemetery. December 14th > 1870. > On the 1871 census William was living with his son George . > > Regards > Pat

I knew that there were at least three William Barnes born circa 1800 One was a vicar, one a farmer and mine who had worked in London as a civil servant. On retirement at the age of 60 he had returned to Dorset where he was born . He was on the 1861 census at Hazelbury Bryan aged 60 with wife Sophia, son George Barnes and grand daughter Catherine Bird. It is thanks to Vanessa that I now know that the 1886 death was not the one I was looking for. I should have remembered that my William was not found on the 1881 census. I now have to look for one between the 1871 and 1881 census. Regards Pat