Brief Life History of Phebe
When Phebe Barnes was born on 27 July 1822, in Van Etten, Van Etten, Chemung, New York, United States, her father, Moses Barnes, was 26 and her mother, Sally Swartwood, was 20.
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1795–1869 Male
1802–1878 Female
Siblings (12)
1820–1905 Male
1822– Female
1824– Male
1826–1910 Male
1828– Male
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World Events (3)
1825 · The Crimes Act
Age 3
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 8
1836
Age 14
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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