When Croam Barnes was born in 1869, in Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Thomas Barnes, was 26 and his mother, Eliza Porter, was 30. He married Alice Lillian Sutcliffe Wyld in 1912, in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 14 January 1944, in Martinsville, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 75.
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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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