BARNARD, John Frederick William (1836-1909) — Southampton
Ordnance Survey engraver.
Born at Fawley, Hampshire, and baptised 31 Jul 1836 at Romsey, the son of John Barnard, a gardener, and his wife Martha Baker, who had married in 1831. He joined the Ordnance Survey in 1851, working as an assistant in the map office while at Nursling, Romsey, with his widowed mother, now a school-mistress. By 1861, he had become an engraver in Southampton. In 1863, he was earning six shillings a day as an outline and writing engraver. Later that year, as Serjeant-Major Barnard, Second Hants Rifles, and also as Instructor of Musketry to the Rifles, he was one of a team of engravers from the Survey’s West Wing who competed against the East Wing in a rifle shooting competition (Hampshire Advertiser, 5 Sep 1863). Later that day, he was assaulted outside the Eagle Inn and knocked unconscious (Hampshire Advertiser, 27 Jun 1863). He married Eliza Quilter (1848-1925) in 1874 and they had three small children by 1881. Barnard then became a publican, running his wife’s family’s Quilter’s Hotel, but according to testimony became “an habitual drunkard” and on at least one occasion threatened to cut his wife’s throat (Portsmouth Evening News, 16 Apr 1886), spending some time in prison. He died at Handel Road, The Polygon, Southampton, 19 Nov 1909. Probate on effects of £157.14s.5d. was granted to his widow 10 Dec 1909.
Waterloo Terrace, Southampton (home) — 1861
2 Bellevue Road, Southampton (home) — 1871
Cottage in the yard of 88 High Street, Southampton (home) — 1881
Quilter’s Hotel, 88-89 High Street, Southampton (home) — 1886-1891
BNA. Census 1851-1891. OSP.