Levina Barnes

Brief Life History of Levina

When Levina Barnes was born on 11 October 1795, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Willard Barnes, was 29 and her mother, Dorothy "Dolly" Stevens, was 24. She married Stevens Baker on 24 May 1818, in Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Dunham, Dunham, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada for about 20 years. She died on 12 January 1879, at the age of 83, and was buried in Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Stevens Baker
1793–1868
Levina Barnes
1795–1879
Marriage: 24 May 1818
William Stevens Baker
1818–1905
Charles Stewart Baker
1820–1904
Stevens Baker Jr
1830–1915

Sources (7)

  • Levina Barnes, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Lovina Barnes, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
  • Levina Barnes, "Massachusetts Town Records, ca. 1638-1961"

World Events (7)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

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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Story Highlight

Lavina's sister Caroline's Journal Entry, 11th of October 1853

"This is my oldest sister's birthday. She is now 58 years old. 18 years since I saw her. I was then 29 years, or in my 29th year, and she was 40."

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