When Adelaide Maria Barney was born on 4 December 1842, in New York, United States, her father, Zerah Barney, was 32 and her mother, Mary E. Parker, was 28. She married William Wallace Owen about 1864, in Ellery, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in The Crossroads, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1900 and Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 January 1927, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bemus Point, Ellery, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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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’).
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