Brief Life History of John James
When John James Barnes was born on 12 September 1852, in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Jeffries Barnes, was 32 and his mother, Frances Fitzjohn Chapman, was 34. He married Hannah Eliza Douglass on 12 March 1884, in Marsh Valley, Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 3 February 1923, in Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cambridge Cemetery, Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- John Barnes, "United States Census, 1900"
- John James Barnes, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- John J Barns Or Barnes, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868
Historical Boundaries 1868: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Bannock, Idaho, United States
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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John James Barnes
I never knew great-grandpa Barnes, but I did know that dad (Marvin Charles Barfuss) looked a lot like him when dad grew a beard.
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