Francis Alice Barnes

Brief Life History of Francis Alice

When Francis Alice Barnes was born in February 1869, in New Jersey, United States, her father, George W Barnes, was 11866 and her mother, Hester C, was 11866. She married Lorenzo Conklin on 9 November 1890, in Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Caldwell Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1900. She died after April 1930.

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Family Time Line

Lorenzo Conklin
1858–1930
Francis Alice Barnes
1869–1930
Marriage: 9 November 1890
Robert Conklin
1891–
Maud Conklin
1894–

Sources (2)

  • Francis Conklin in household of Lorenz Conklin, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Fanny A. Barnes, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985"

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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1879

Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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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