When Christiana R. Barr was born on 15 September 1826, in Barree, Porter Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, David Barr, was 44 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Brown, was 40. She married George W. Oswalt on 1 January 1850, in Stark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States in 1870. She died on 30 August 1893, at the age of 66, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Tiffin, Seneca, Ohio, United States.
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Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
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