When John Barnett was born on 14 December 1809, in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Barnard, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Pope, was 31. He married Mary Westlake Vickery on 9 May 1833, in Curry Rivel, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in St Pancras, Middlesex, England in 1851. In 1851, at the age of 42, his occupation is listed as boot and shoe maker in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. He died on 8 March 1855, in Camden, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45.
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English: habitational name from various places, for example Chipping (High) Barnet, East Barnet, and Friern Barnet in Greater London, named with Old English bærnet ‘place cleared by burning’ (a derivative of bærnan ‘to burn, to set light to’).
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, a variant of Bernard .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): this surname has been adopted by Ashkenazic Jews in the English-speaking world, perhaps as an Anglicized form of a vaguely similar Jewish name such as Baruch .
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