Brief Life History of William H.
When William H. Barnes was born in 1802, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ezra Barnes, was 44 and his mother, Judith Turner, was 34.
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Parents and Siblings
1759–1815 Male
1768–1820 Female
Siblings (9)
1789– Female
1790– Male
1792– Female
1794– Female
1798– Male
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World Events (8)
1802 · Brass is Discovered
Age 0
1803
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 34
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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