For years, I've seen the name of Henry and Martha (Lemaster) Barr's daughter
Mary's name as "Mary Sternaker Barr" in shared research. Last week I visited
the courthouse in Greensburg, Indiana, and discovered that her middle name was
recorded and transcribed incorrectly!
Her marriage license application has "Mary Sternaker Barr" but the
certificate immediately below recording her marriage clearly has "Mary Starnater
Barr!"
This would connect Henry's family through his father, John, to the German
emigrant families of Christian Wiman b. 1730 and Francis Starnator (who married an
unnamed daughter of Christian Wiman). Another of Christian's daughters
(unnamed) married a John Barr? Coincidence? Probably not.
Seems that Henry Barr probably named Mary for his mother's sister, <Mary?>
Wiman Starnator. Henry was born 1792 in PA, and lived in Henry Co, KY, Jennings
Co, IN and Clay Twp, Decatur Co, IN. The Wiman family and Francis Starnator
emigrated together from Rotterdam to PA on the ship "Hamilton" in 1767 and
settled in western PA before some of them came by flatboat to the Louisville area,
settling in Henry/Shelby Counties.
Now, can anyone help straighten out the rest of the Barrs of Decatur,
Jennings and Shelby Counties (John Barr Sr. and Jr., Allen, George, Jacob, Melinda,
etc.) in relationship to Henry? I think the John Barr of Decatur Co is Henry's
brother -- John married Henry's wife's half-sister, Lucy Lemaster. The
Lemasters lived in Shelby Co, KY in the early 1800s.
Eleanor Rayl
Indianapolis
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