Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Barnes was born on 6 March 1815, in Melksham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Barnes, was 30 and her mother, Mary Barnes, was 26. She married George Gay on 17 June 1839, in Holt, Wiltshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Holt, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died on 17 March 1890, at the age of 75, and was buried in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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- Mary Gay in household of Giles Gay, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Jane Barnes, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Jane Barnes, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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