Brief Life History of Peter
When Peter Barnes was born on 6 June 1652, in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Barnes Sr., was 49 and his mother, Anna Norcross Bent, was 49. He married Anna Canterbury on 7 July 1679, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 17 May 1742, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Peter Barnes, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Peter Barn, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Peter Barns, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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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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