Brief Life History of Maria
Maria Barnes was born on 1 May 1856, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. She married William Norris on 3 September 1876, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 14 March 1925, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, at the age of 68.
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- Maria Norris, "Find A Grave Index"
- Maria Norris, "Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949"
- Maria Barnes, "Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893"
Spouse and Children
Children (7)
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World Events (8)
1869
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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