A Barker family history built around the diaries of Priscilla Chambers Barker born in 1817, died in 1900, the daughter of William Chambers and Elizabeth Anne Wilson. The Barkers were a wealthy pastoral family. Alfred Barker had come to South Australia with Colonel Light on the ‘Rapid’ in 1836, he married Priscilla Chambers at Trinity Church on 2nd June 1842. Priscilla Chambers arrived in the colony in the 'John Renwick' in February 1837.
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