When Mabel Edith Barnard was born on 13 August 1882, in County Westmeath, Ireland, her father, William Henry Barnard, was 30 and her mother, Annie Jane Brooks, was 26. She married Albert Emmanual Ramus on 23 June 1911, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 2 January 1970, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 87.
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Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
In the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Ireland was partitioned, with the unionist-dominated north east becoming Northern Ireland.
New elections. The voters return de Valera and also approve a new constitution which abolishes the Irish Free State and proclaims Eire (Gaelic for Ireland) as a sovereign, independent, democratic state.
English, Dutch, and French: variant of Bernard and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname Barnard is very rare in France.
Americanized form of German Bernhard or Bernhardt , and of German, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Bernard .
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. John Barnard was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker). Another John Barnard, born in Boston in 1681, was a Congregational clergyman who served as minister of Marblehead, MA, from 1716 to 1770.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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