Arthur Freeman (T) Barber
- Born: 24 Mar cir 1930, Guelph, Ontario Canada
- Marriage (1): Mary Lilian Almas in Guelph Township, Ontario Canada
General Notes:
Laurence Barber notes:
He is a twin of Annie Frances and they were born in a little stone house on Highway 24, in Guelph Township, just west of Guelph city. He moved with his family from there to Durie Lane, Toronto; Home Street, Guelph; Park Street, Dundas; Brant Street, Burlington; Plains Road, Burlington and Middle Road (now the QEW or Queen Elizabeth Way), Burlington (just east of the Guelph Line).
Freeman Barber married Mary Lilian Almas. He had been working for her uncle, George Pollard (husband of Ellen (Nell) Almas), a market gardener on Maple Avenue, Burlington, on the old Josiah (Jr.) Lambshead property. After their marriage they lived in the big house on his parents' farm, on the QEW in Burlington, before purchasing the 'hired hand' house, and a plot of land - 3 and 1/2 acres, from George Pollard - at 759 Maple Avenue. Here Freeman and Mary raised their family and undertook a market gardening growing and selling business, until 1976.
Subsequently Freeman and Mary have lived on Kerns Road, Teal Avenue and Amhurst, in Burlington. They then moved to a retirement home in Waterdown, Ontario.
Freeman has served as a leader and elder in two Associated Gospel Churches of Canada - at Brant Bible Church (formerly Freeman Gospel Tabernacle) and Park Bible Church. He has been a Gideon in the Burlington 'camp' and has distributed thousands of pocket New Testaments to young people, in public schools through the years.
Around 1990 he and his son (moi) travelled together to visit various ancestry locations in England - notably in and around Fressingfield, Suffolk (the Barber roots) and around the North Yorkshire Moors (his mother's roots).
Arthur married Mary Lilian Almas in Guelph Township, Ontario Canada. (Mary Lilian Almas was born circa 1930.)
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