When Marion Esther Barnes was born on 11 September 1894, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States, her father, Joseph Patterson Barnes, was 47 and her mother, Mathilda Elnora Wehe, was 39. She married Victor Conrad Weltzin on 11 November 1914, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Newman, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1900 and Palo Alto Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1940. She died on 18 September 1979, in Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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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