Brief Life History of Joseph Simpson
When Joseph Simpson Barnes was born on 16 January 1850, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Barnes Jr, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Taylor, was 27. He married Elizabeth Emira Rhodes on 20 January 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1854 and lived in Sutton, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Utah, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 16 October 1921, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Josh Barnes in household of Chas Barnes, "United States Census, 1860"
- Joseph S Barnes, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Joseph Simpson Barnes, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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