Norma Barrow

Female12 March 1926–22 April 1950

Brief Life History of Norma

When Norma Barrow was born on 12 March 1926, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, her father, Earl Raymond Barrow, was 35 and her mother, Jessie Elizabeth Brown, was 28. She lived in Rigby Election Precinct 2, Jefferson, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 April 1950, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Rigby Pioneer Cemetery, Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Earl Raymond Barrow
1891–1934
Jessie Elizabeth Brown
1897–1983
Earl J Barrow
1922–2003
Lynn Merrill Barrow
1924–2011
Norma Barrow
1926–1950
Wayne Raymond Barrow
1928–2016
Donald Gene Barrow
1931–2023
Lucile Barrow
1934–2015

Sources (23)

  • Norma Barrow, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Norma Barrow, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1938-1961"
  • Norma Barrow, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (6)

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World Events (8)

1927

Age 1

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

Age 3

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1935 · The FBI is Established

Age 9

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe) or Old English beorg, dative beorge (Middle English berwe, barwe) ‘mound, tumulus’, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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