Elizabeth Barnes

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Barnes was born on 15 March 1707, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Barnes, was 38 and her mother, Mary Bartlett, was 36. She married Francis Curtis Jr on 10 November 1731, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 5 March 1738, in her hometown, at the age of 30.

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Family Time Line

Francis Curtis Jr
1705–1739
Elizabeth Barnes
1707–1738
Marriage: 10 November 1731
Lydia Curtis
1732–1815
James Curtis
1735–1767
Elizabeth Curtis
1737–

Sources (16)

  • Elizabeth Barnes, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Elizabeth Barnes, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Elizabeth Barnes, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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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