Stationmaster – London Road – James Barnes

James Barnes

1815 – 1883

Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway:

•  Stationmaster at St Albans (later London Road), 1870 – 1882.

Life Highlights:

• Born in 1815, in Westminster, Middlesex, of William &Lucy Barnes.
• Baptised on 10^th December 1815 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex.
• Married Charlotte Hope Barnes on 29^th December 1841, at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex.
• Wife died in 1859 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
• Married Mary Watts Burton in 1861, in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
• Died on 6^th December 1883 at St Albans, Hertfordshire.
• Will proved by Mary Watts Barnes on 9^th January 1884: effects £785.3.6.
• (Wife died on 3^rd June 1888, at Verulam Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire: Will proved 5^th September 1888: effects £1.034.6.8.)

Homes included:

• Balby Road, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
• North Parade, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
• Station House, London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire.

He, 2 daughters, 2 sons and 1 servant are at Balby Road, Doncaster, Yorkshire, in the 1851 census: Railway Clerk (Gr^t Northⁿ).

He, 2 daughters, 2 sons and 1 servant are at North Parade, Grantham, Lincolnshire, in the 1861 census: Mercantile Cl employed on a Railway.

He, his wife, 3 daughters and 1 son are at London Road GNR Station, St Albans, Hertfordshire, in the 1871 census: Station Master.

He, his wife, 2 daughters and 1 son are at London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, in the 1881 census: Station Master.

Information gathered from:

• The Roger Taylor archive.
• Census returns.
• Parish Register (baptism).
• Marriage Index.
• Deaths Index.
• Wills Index.