When William Jeffries Barnes was born on 20 August 1820, in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Barnes, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Jeffries, was 24. He married Frances Fitzjohn Chapman on 7 February 1841, in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England in 1851. He registered for military service in 1857. He died on 14 November 1893, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
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’.
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Possible Related NamesMy great-grandfather, William Jefferies Barnes, took an active part in the Morrisite war, the account of which follows: In November, 1860, Joseph Morris, a self-appointed prophet of God, established …
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