Brief Life History of William Sibson
When William Sibson Barnes was born on 29 March 1892, in Holme St Cuthbert, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Sibson Barnes, was 33 and his mother, Mary Ann Wright, was 34. He died on 6 June 1916, in France, at the age of 24.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- William S Barnes in household of John Bardsley, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
- William Sibson Barnes, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- William Sibson Barnes, "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957"
Parents and Siblings
1859–1900 Male
1857– Female
Siblings (4)
1890– Female
1892–1916 Male
1895– Female
1897– Male
World Events (7)
1894 · The Affair - Dreyfus is Accused of Treason
Age 2
1900
Age 8
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
Age 12
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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