FREDERICK CHARLES BARKER

Born: 1877, Parham, Suffolk.

Died: 4th January 1901; age: 23; Died of Disease at Machadodorp, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Residence: Swilland, Suffolk.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 4272.

Regiment: 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars.

Clasps Awarded: Belfast, Orange Free State & Laings’s Nek + Queen’s South Africa Medal.

CENSUS

1881   Framlingham Road, Parham, Suffolk.

Frederick was 5 years old and living with his parents, sister & maternal grandparents.

Valentine Barker, 43, a Farmer of 121 acres – employing 4 men & 1 boy, born Otley, Suffolk.

Elizabeth Eliza Barker (nee Revett), 39, born Tannington, Suffolk.

Marion Barker, 10, born Parham.

Charles Revett, 72, a retired Farmer, born Kelvedon, Essex.

Elizabeth Revett, 78, born Sibton, Suffolk.

1891   Church Street, Stradbroke, Suffolk.

Frederick was 14 years old, a Grocer’s Apprentice for 31 year old, Herbert Benjamin Row, a Grocer & Draper.