George Scarborough Barnsley of Woodlands Plantation, Cass County, Ga., and São Paulo, Brazil, was a Confederate soldier, hospital steward, medical student, and assistant surgeon in the 8th Georgia Regiment. He emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. Members of Barnsley's family included his father, Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873), his brother, Lucien Barnsley (1840-1892), and his sister, Julia Bernard Barnsley (b. 1836).
From the description of George Scarborough Barnsley papers, 1837-1918 (bulk 1846-1873) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 22377285
George Scarborough Barnsley (1837-1918) of Woodlands Plantation, Cass County, Georgia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, was the son of Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873), a cotton exporter of Savannah and New Orleans, and Julia Scarborough Barnsley (1810-1845). He was educated at Oglethorpe University at Midway, Georgia, from 1854 through 1857. During the Civil War he served as a private in the 8th Georgia Regiment, and later as a hospital steward, medical student, and assistant surgeon. In 1866 he emigrated with his brother, Lucien, to Brazil as part of a group under the leadership of Frank McMullen. Except for the period 1890-1896, when he returned to the United States, he remained in Brazil, where he practiced medicine, for the rest of his life. He married Mary Lamira Emerson in 1869.
George Barnsley had five brothers and sisters who survived infancy. Anna Goodwin Barnsley (b. 1829) married Thomas Corse Gilmour of the Isle of Man, England, in New Orleans in 1850. Gilmour died in England in 1865. The Gilmours had two children, Murray Barnsley (b. 1850) and Julia Eliza (b. 1852). Harold Barnsley (1832-1862) was an adventurer who died in Shanghai in 1862. Adelaide Barnsley (1834-1858) married John Kelso Reid of Ireland in New Orleans in 1857, and had one child, Godfrey Forrest Reid (b. 1858). Julia Bernard Barnsley (b. 1836) married James Peter Baltzell (d. 1868) in 1864. The Baltzells had one child, Adelaide (1864-1942). In 1872 Julia Barnsley married a second time, to Charles H. Von Schwartz (d. 1885). Lucien Barnsley (1840-1892) married Martha H. Grady in Brazil in 1871.
George Barnsley had five children, Mary Adelaide Barnsley (b. 1870), who married Manoel Guedes in 1885, Julia Henrietta (1872-1875), Godfrey Emerson (b. 1874), George Scarborough (b. 1877), and Harold, who died as an infant.
From the guide to the George Scarborough Barnsley Papers, 1837-1918, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
