Brief Life History of Laura Alice
When Laura Alice Barney was born on 19 February 1852, in Mosquito Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Barney, was 19 and her mother, Caroline Beard, was 26. She died on 1 March 1854, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Sources (2)
- Laura Alice Barney, "Find A Grave Index"
- Laura Alice Barney, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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