When Benjamin Barber was born on 3 December 1690, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Barber, was 42 and his mother, Ruth Drake, was 33. He married Hannah Lewis on 30 June 1720, in Poquonock, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He died after 1733, in Poquonock Bridge, Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: occupational name for a barber, from Middle English barb(o)ur ‘barber’ (Anglo-Norman French barber, Old French barbier, from Late Latin barbarius, a derivative of barba ‘beard’). In the Middle Ages barbers not only cut hair and shaved beards, but also practised surgery and pulled teeth.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from German Barbier ‘barber’ (compare 1 above).
Catalan: occupational name for a barber, barber (see 1 above).
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