The link between the lines of Robert Barker of Plymouth Colony, his brother of John of Duxbury, Mass and the English ancestors is clearly shown by the coat0of-arms used by these brothers and their father in England. This coat-of-arms was found on the seal on a deed signed by Robert’s descendants of Scituate, Mass in 1694 and was originally granted to Robert of Kent, England when knighted by James I in 1602. The arms were described in heraldic terms as Barry of 10 and sable, over all bend gules. Crest: Out of a dual coronet, an Eagle displayed sable, beaked and legged gules. Robert jr. bore the same arms as his father but his brother John differenced his by “Over all a bend or.”
This connecting link has caused an intensive search among the records to the earliest known English ancestor and briefly brought down to the present day.
The principal visitations of Shroshire, England commenced the pedigree of the BARKER family with Randulph de Calverhall, tenant in fess of the Manor of Calverhall in 1200, his son was William Fits-Ralph de Calverhall, Blancminster in 1219, his son was William de Calverhall 1255, his son was William de Calverhall 1284, his son was Randulph or Richard de Calverhall 1319; “In the summer of 1278, a royal writ by Edward I. ordered all freeholders who held lands to the value twenty pounds to receive knighthood,” so Randulph de Calverhall bore the known Barker arms, described as: Azure, 5 escallops in cross, or. Crest, on a rock argent, a Falcon close, or.
Randulph’s son was William de Calerhall: “The Manor of Calverhall in the time of Edward II. formed part of the possessions of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, upon whose attender and execution the tenants of the Manor would share in his disgrace and fall. William de Calverhall seems to have fled southwards, and reappeared at Hallow, under the of William de Barker. The name Calverhall, after bsing dropped by the family for more than 200 years, appears to have been resumed as an alias upon their resuming connections with the north of the country, where