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                  <text>B A RN E A

HOUSE:

lot

7.con.l

north
1872.

of
Jan. 4.1873.

1874.
June 3

side

oh

Shown

Stephen

Bertie

of

Victoria

Jarvis to

Bardgett.

Thomas

Bardgett

wife

&amp;

Jane

Reardon to Edward

1889.

Brown

Caren

Oct. 8.1928.

Prob. of
Percy

Mar.10. 1932.

1932.Percy
1945.

widower to
will:

Rice

Mc.

B.

Reardon.

Hoery:23/100

acres.

holder to William

Caren.

Barnea.

Barnea to

with

of

the

grandson

building

known

House.

widower

Leod

Rice to

ext. of

&amp;

Connie

&amp;

Mary

Charles

Mc.

Town

Fort Erie

of

wife

to Dennis

Martha

Martha
Rice I

Barnea

Percy
John

mortgage

Alonzo

as the

lot

as property

Bardgette

Jane

1886. Dennis

Wm.

28:

Jarvis.

Thomas

Thomas

Township.

Courtwright St.No.

plan

M.

M.

Aug110.181ï¿½

Apr.14.

of

the

Stephen

2.

&amp;

Leod

Mc.

Martha

Leod as

Barnea

to

J.T.

Lawson.
wife to

&amp;

to

James

Raymond

P.

E.Disher
Dancy

&amp;

MaryJ.T.

wife

&amp;

margaret: J.T.
June 24.1945.

Percy A.

rice

to National
July 28.1948.

National
Horvat:

Apr.13. 1959.

Peter

wife

&amp;

Trust

Trust

1. 1971.

Managers::

J.

Furac

ï¿½illiam

&amp;

Comp.

1900.

Mr.

&amp;

&amp;

Martin

1908.

George

Depew.

1931.

Robert

Beatty

Raymond
Martin

Hirman

Dancy

1986.

George

barnea

Peter

J.

Furac

&amp;

&amp;

wifes

to

Martin

J.

Horvat

wife Pauline.
to

Alonzo

Patrick

J.

Ryan.

Barnea

Fite.

\

Horvat

1959. WILLIAM warbucks
John

his

Mrs. Nicholas
mrs.

1971.

to

Pauline Warbuck

&amp;.

1948.

Martha

J.T.

Mr.

1935

of

Comp.

William Warbuck and
June

heirs

Ryan

...

�.ï¿½J\ : :

:

Frs.

133G.

b.

!Â·'.ay-t.Jia Barnea

1

r'lC\IT:

},
,.

marr;

Ro:;er Thee

â€¢

2.

of twelve.

one

son

She lived at Woodstock

d.

for

cornming to Canada at the
a

number of years

,

having

Harry.

i

After the d eath of her husband
and lived in Welland
numbe.!'

1867.

Nicholas Alonzo Barnea;

Barnea was born in Devonshire England,

agÂ·J

93 yrs.

of 'Noodstock.
d.

.

b.

M rs.

1928:

d. June 29,

for

some

of years operated the

They left

time.

Old

Nicholas Alonzo Barnea

she married
They

to Fort Erie,

came

Victoria Hotel

this business and opened the Barnea

and

for

a

on Courtwright st.

just east on Courtwright

(

St.
Wh en Hr.
who

was

Barnea died Martha went to live

running the Welland Hotel th e r e .

\Ridgeway where she lived with Harry's
on

the

er.

of Hazel St.

and

Harry in Wellar

son

eventually moved back to

son Percy Rice,

in

a

red brick how=

the Ridge.

built at the time Of the railway bridge in the 1870's:

The Barnea:::

It served to house

the

c onstruc

to town to work on the railway.
knoï¿½n1

She

with her

: 18/

tf}

and also the

men

that

came

It has been in continous

use

ever

since.

ti on workers,

Mr.

&amp; Mrs.

Nicholas Alonzo Barne a.

19,7P.

Er.

8ï¿½ I'1rs.

Hirt:1an Fite.

1908.

George Depew.

1931.

Robert

1935.

Raymond

1948.

Martin Horvat.

1959.

'Nilliam Warbucks

1971.
1986.

Pat

ovmers: :

Ryan

Ge c;.."i'

.e;e

Beattle.

D'Arcy (

&amp;

11ife.

Da ncy )

J

t'2ile112.

986.

�Robert

Beatty. manager
born

I

of

in

the

Barnea

House.

1931-1935.

England.marr.

â€¢'

In 1935 left the
and
till

MRS.

Barnea

owner Raymond
his death

ADA

REGINA

BERRY

:

d.

She

was the daughter of

grandaughter of Sgt.

P.

in

to

a new

Dancy who

operated

1948.

1942 at the age of
John

George

F.

Huffman

70.
&amp;

british

flag.Later

1813 by General JOhn
forces.
She

He

owned a

by

sons

Thomas

â€¢

..

,underï¿½ï¿½ï¿½

surrendered at the Old

Buck,

to

the

her husband

a daughter Mrs.
&amp;

with the

Jack

Harry

H.

Harold Ogalvie.

Berry.

Fort

invading American

number of fertile acres in

is servived by

also

the

Huffma, who rode

Butlers Rangers in the American Revolution
the

manager

Bertie.

Berry
&amp;

two

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