This Quaker family was based at Upperthorpe, which was then on the outskirts of Sheffield.  One of its members, John Barnard (1723-1789), operated a tannery.  A surveyor’s map (1781), which is extant at Sheffield City Archives, indicated that John Barnard held farmland at Upperthorpe.  His sons, by his marriage to Hannah Wilson (1730-1793) – Daniel, John, Robert, and Wilson – were apprenticed as cutlers.  Initially, John’s business as a tanner prospered, but he was bankrupt in 1785.  His daughter, Deborah (1754-1810), had married in 1776 into the Darby family of ironmasters at Coalbrookdale.  He moved to Coalbrookdale, too, and died there in 1789. 

John’s son – Daniel Barnard (1774-1853?) – was apprenticed to his elder brother, Robert, in 1789.   Daniel was granted his Freedom in 1796.  He established Barnard & Co, a pen knife cutlers and factors, 16 Scotland Street.  A silver mark was registered in 1799.  The partners, which included William Hatfield and John Settle, featured in the trade mark: ‘BARNARD / HATFIELD / SETTLE’.  The venture was dissolved in 1801.  Apparently, Daniel continued to trade until 1815, when he became insolvent.  His subsequent career is untraced.  He may have devoted himself to the Society of Friends.  His sister, Deborah, was a prominent Quaker.  Daniel may have died, unmarried, at Alton in about 1853 (Foster, 1871¹).  A Barnard family tree was compiled by Joseph Hunter (Clay, vol.  3, 1895²).

^1. Foster, Joseph, The Pedigree of Wilson of High Wray and Kendal and the Families Connected with Them (Printed for private circulation, 1871)

^2. Clay, John W (ed), Familiae Minorum Gentium  (London, 4 vols, 1894-6)