Henry Barnes

Brief Life History of Henry

When Henry Barnes was born on 18 June 1815, in Haslingden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Barnes, was 32 and his mother, Betty Lord, was 25. He married Alice Ratcliffe on 3 January 1837, in Bury, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lower Booths, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Culcheth, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.

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Family Time Line

Henry Barnes
1815–
Alice Ratcliffe
1814–1885
Marriage: 3 January 1837
Elizabeth Barnes
1838–
James Barnes
1840–1840
Nancy Barnes
1841–1925
Henry Barnes
1844–
Alice Ann Barnes
1847–1892

Sources (13)

  • Henry Barns, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • England birth and baptism record
  • Henry Barnes, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

World Events (8)

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1825 · Museum of Lancashire

The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.

1850 · Industrial Revolution in Lancashire

When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.

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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