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Birth Date:
chr. 10 September 1810
Birth Place: Pointon, Lincolnshire, England
Death Date:
1891
Burial: <Bracebridge,
Lincolnshire, England>
OCCUPATION(S): Butcher,
Farmer
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FAMILY
Father: JOHN HARKER
WIFE
(1) SUSANNAH TYLER
Mother:
MARY PROCTOR
SIBLINGS
John Harker
William Harker
Amos Harker
Friday Harker
Joseph Harker
Mary Anne Harker
Job Harker
INDEX TO HISTORY |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
The Journal of Joseph Harker
p. 28
"While I was away [in 1834]....John, my eldest brother,
had also become very unsteady, approaching almost an inveterate
drunkard, so at the expiration of my half year's contract with
Mr. Eastland, my mother desired that I would come home and take
charge of the farm, which I did. This, however, incurred upon
me the displeasure of my eldest brother, so much so, that he
despised almost my very appearance. I did not fear him, however,
though at times he would give vent to his anger, and very often
make threats of violence towards my mother and myself, because
he could not get the farm in his own hands, and the property
which was on it. For my part, I never disagreed with him except
in the defence of my mother; but, at different times, he broke
open the doors and made threats which were of a serious character
over her person, when, at last, I interfered, and we came to
blows. The whipping which I gave him fully satisfied him, so
that he never tried it again, though, on several occasions afterwards,
he took up a double barrel shot gun and threatened to shoot me
and my mother. During such fits of anger on his part, I have
walked up to him and wrenched the gun from his hands and then
turned him out of the house. He carried ona this wise until he
became insane and was then taken to the asylum at Lincoln. Prior
to his insanity, he was a smaert man, especially so in business
affairs, when he kept himself away from the grovelling paths
of the drunkard."
Gazateer
Bracebridge district of Lincoln
"The county lunatic asylum is here; and a new chapel for
it was built in 1869." |
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