When Pearl A. Barrett was born on 13 November 1892, in New York, United States, her father, Melvin R. Barrett, was 31 and her mother, Emma Sherman, was 23. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Roy Conklin Kneeland. She lived in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States for about 5 years and Morrisville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 27 November 1978, in Volusia, Florida, United States, at the age of 86.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
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