are you sure his parents were Arthur & Emma from Norfolk cos below is a note put on by aa Ancestry tree member KeithFrancis22 just had another look at his tree and seen he has an Alfred Leonard Barnard as dying in 1918 must have decided he didn't die at birth.
I think you can contact a member even if you haven't a sub but if you PM me I will send him a message he was online a couple of days ago so still active.
Arthur Leonard Barnard, my great grandfather was born at Wacton, Norfolk, about 12 miles south of Norwich in 1858. At the age of 12 he had become a yard boy, possibly working with his agricultural labourer father Daniel. Arthur then became an agricultural labourer and by 1881 had married Emma Maddis who was born at Mutford, near Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1858.Their first home was at Mutford. Their first child was Margaret Annie Maddis who was born blind on 7July 1876. She was born before they married and retained the name of Maddis until she herself married in 1898. Margaret Annie would have left home, probably in the mid 80's to go to the School for the Indigent Blind, Southwark, London where she was to meet her future husband, Alfred Woodward Parker. There must have been some form of welfare scheme (probably one or more village charities) to finance Margaret Annie's education at the school but it is not known what she studied specifically apart possibly from learning how to cope with being blind from birth.
Arthur continued his work as an agricultural labourer and combined it with being an engine driver, which may have indicated that he operated a threshing machine or other form of new farm implement. He and Emma continued to live at Mutford and had three more children there, Leonard D (b.1.880), Olive Jane (b.1881) and Leonard James (b.1883). In about 1885 they moved to Warham All Saints, Norfolk, about 5 miles west of Blakeney. Two more children were born here, Emma Jane (b.1886) and Ellen May (b. 1889). The family moved yet again within a few years to Swanton Morley, Norfolk, about 10 miles northeast of Norwich, where employment opportunities might have been greater. Additional children born here were Arthur L (b. 1896) and Percy L (b.1899). There may have been other children born between Ellen May and Arthur L who did not survive childbirth or their first year, which was common for 15% of children in the 19th century.
Arthur Leonard Barnard eventually died on 16 August 1827 at East Bilney, Norfolk (about 7 miles N of Dereham) aged 69. I have a photograph of Emma, her daughter Margaret Annie and my mother Evelyn Violet (aged probably 18 at the time) which indicates Emma to be about 72 at the time (c.1930). The photograph was almost certainly taken at Radstock, but Emma would have been likely to have died in Norfolk soon after or possibly at her place of birth, Mutford, Suffolk.
