When Octavius Barnes was born on 26 August 1861, in Ohio, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Barns, was 35 and his mother, Rebecca Jane Morgan, was 41. He married Serena Ellen Lamb on 11 March 1884, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Union District, Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1910.
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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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