BARRELL
& some history of distinguished Barrells
BARRELL'S THROUGH TIME
1327-1377 Edward III William Barrel (Kirbys Quest for Somerset)
Wool Trade an important Industry.
Flemish weavers encouraged to come to England. Norfolk and Suffolk
rich centres of the wool trade.
Tax on wool exports paid for costly French wars
1349 Black Death
1378 Richard II
1381 Peasants Revolt strong in Home Counties and East Anglia.
1399 Henry IV (Duke of Lancaster) Richard II deposed
Henry V
Henry VI
1453 End of Hundred Years War
1461 Edward IV (Duke of York) Henry VI deposed
1476 Caxton.First Printing Press.
1483 Edward V (Reigned for a few months only)
1483 Richard III D.1485 Battle of Bosworth Field. The last
battle in the Wars of the Roses.
Privy Council-Nobles, Churchmen, Lawyers-the Kings advisers.
Court of Star Chamber.
Built a large Merchant Fleet.
1485 Henry VII (Earl of Richmond) Lord of Ireland.
John Barrell born at Stansted Essex (Wills at Norwich)
Thomas Barrell Born at Walberswick Suffolk (Wills at Ipswich)
English laws were established in Ireland.
1492 Columbus lands in America.
1497 John & Sebastian Cabot sail out of Bristol to Newfoundland
which became the first colony.
1509 Henry VIII Proclaims himself King of Ireland
Church breaks with Rome. King becomes Head of Church of England.
Large family at Shimpling Suffolk
Also Barrells in Essex, Warwicks, Somerset, Gloucs,London.
1547 Edward VI Barrells in Kent.
1553 Lady Jane Grey
1553 Mary I Queen sends English settlers to Ireland. Englishmen
given lands taken from Irish Nobles.
Barrells in Surrey, Rutland.
1558 Elizabeth I Persecuted Huguenots flee to England.
Help teach English how to weave silk.
Hawkins and Drake upset the Spanish. Barrells in Worcs , Durham, Beds,
Norfolk,
Hants , Lincs , Oxford, Scotland, Cambs,
1564 William Shakespear born.
1577-1580 Drake sails round the World.
1585 Raleigh forms colony-Virginia.
1587 Mary Queen of Scots executed.
1588 Spanish Armada Defeated by Lord Howard of Effingham.
1597 First Poor Law passed.-Parishes must now look after their
own poor.
1600 East India Company formed
1601 Second Poor Law Passed.
1603 James I Ulster colonised with Scottish and English
families.
Cotton Trade beginning in Manchester. Barrells in Heref, Derby, Cornwall,
Northants, Yorks, Devon.Ulster colonised with Scottish and English families.
Cotton Trade beginning in Manchester. Barrells in Heref, Derby, Cornwall,
Northants, Yorks, Devon.
1605 Gunpowder Plot
1611 King James Bible Published
1616 William Shakes pear died.
1620 Mayflower (Puritans) sails to form colonyNew England.
1625 Charles I Barrells in Leics,
1633 Lord Baltimore (Roman catholic) founded Maryland.
1634 Robert Barrell (Minister at Maidstone) Signed certificate
for people shipped to America.
1644 John Barrell (grandparents from Sth Elmham.Suffolk) Married
Mary Colburn
in America, daughter of Elder Wm.Colburn (one of the 12 founders of
Massachusetts Bay Colony)
1649 Oliver Cromwell Barrells in Staffordshire,
1660 Charles II Barrells in Northumbria, Sussex, Lancs.
Francis Barrell MP. Recorder for Rochester. Possessed of Manor of Goddington.
Married Ann Somer. D.1769.Rochester Cathedral.
1680 Penn (Quakers) founded Pennsylvania.
1685 James II Barrells in Notts.
1688 William III
1692 Glencoe Massacre LINK
1694 Francis Barrell MP.Recorder for Rochester. Married Anne
Kitchell. -{ D.1724.Rochester Cathedral.
1698 William Barrell Lieutenant & Captain 1st Foot Guards.
1702 Anne William Barrell Lieutenant & Captain \ Grenadier
Coy.
1705 William Barrell Captain & Lt.Colonel 1st Foot Guards.
1707 William Barrell Brevet Colonel.
1714 George I Barrells in Durham,Wilts.
1715 William Barrell Colonel 28th Foot.
1727 George II Barrells in Cumbria, Brecon, Westmorland,
Dorset. William Barrell Brigadier General.
1730 William Barrell Colonel 22nd Foot. Francis Barrell Married
Frances Hanbury (co heir to William Hanbury)
1734 William Barrell Colonel Kings Own.
1735 William Barrell Major General
1739 William Barrell Lt. General. Governor of pendennis
Castle,LINK
b.C 1740. Charles (later Sir Charles Barrell) at Spaxton Somerset.
1746 Barrell's regiment Kings own (4th foot) Stood their ground and
turned the tide of battle against the Jacobites, with heavy losses (Battle
of Culloden).
1749William Barrell died. Buried Westminster Abbey
1760 George III Barrells in Herts, Berks, Bucks, Monmouth, Flint,
Ireland, Caernarvon, Glamorgan.
C.1763 Barrels Co. Catherlough Viscouncy with the Earldom of
Catherlough (which see extent 1772)
1820 George IV Barrells in Shropshire.
1830 William IV Duke of Clarence. Barrells in Pembroke
1837 Victoria
1901 Edward VII
1910 George V