Brief Life History of Lewis
Lewis Barnes was born about 1815, in Dunham, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada. He married Hannah Rychard about 1836. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 4 June 1882, in his hometown, at the age of 68, and was buried in Frelighsburg Methodist Cemetery, Frelighsburg, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada.
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- Lewis Barnes, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1815–1882 Male
1809–1877 Female
Children (7)
1838–1902 Male
1841–1932 Female
1843–1925 Female
1843– Female
1847–1901 Female
+2 More Children
World Events (2)
1869
Age 54
1871
Age 56
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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