When Byron Talmage Barnes was born on 16 January 1891, in Amagansett, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States, his father, Herbert Talmages Barnes, was 23 and his mother, Helen Eugenia Finch, was 20. He married Mary Eloise Bell on 19 October 1914, in Amagansett, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1973, in New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Amagansett, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States.
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’.
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