Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Barnes was born on 1 November 1790, in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Moses Barnes, was 29 and her mother, Olive Simons, was 25. She married Henry Bigelow on 5 October 1810, in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Amherst, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States in 1850. She died on 24 November 1885, in Williamsville, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Williamsville, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States.
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- Lucy D Bigelow in household of Harry T Bigelow, "New York State Census, 1865"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lucy Barnes - Individual or family possessions: birth: 1 November 1790; Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, United States
- Lucy Barnes, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1791 · Vermont Becomes 14th State
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
1818
Established in 1818
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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