When Margaret Barney was born on 2 June 1747, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, William Barney, was 29 and her mother, Frances Holland Watts, was 18. She died on 24 September 1748, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, at the age of 1.
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English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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