When Barrow was born in 1879, in Georgia, United States, her father, Benjamin Napoleon Barrow, was 35 and her mother, Sarah A. McDowell, was 29. She died on 1 October 1879, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Spalding, Georgia, United States.
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English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe) or Old English beorg, dative beorge (Middle English berwe, barwe) ‘mound, tumulus’, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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