The following year, Lady Barker accompanied him on his next deployment to Bengal. For his efforts, George was knighted in 1859. With her two sons, Barker remained in England while her husband was posted first in the Crimea, then in India, where he and his company withstood the Indian mutiny of 1857. Around 1852, she married British Royal Artillery officer George Barker. At age two, she was put on board a ship and sent to England, where she was schooled for the next 20 years. Stewart who held a British colonial government post there. Lady Mary Anne Barker was born in 1831 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of W.G. Station Life in New Zealand (1870) Travelling About Over Old and New Ground (1871) A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters (1872) Station Amusements in New Zealand (1873) First Lessons in the Principles of Cookery (1874) A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (1877) Letters to Guy (1885) Colonial Memories (1904). Stewart (a Jamaican Island secretary) educated in England married Captain George Barker, around 1852 (died 1861) married Frederick Napier Broome, on J(died 1896) children: (first marriage) John Stewart (b. Born Mary Anne Stewart in 1831 in Spanish Town, Jamaica died on March 6, 1911, in London, England daughter of W.G. Name variations: Lady Mary Anne Barker Lady Broome. British Commonwealth writer, known primarily for early histories of colonial New Zealand.
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