When William Barnes was born on 31 January 1844, in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Jeffries Barnes, was 23 and his mother, Frances Fitzjohn Chapman, was 25. He married Rosa Ellen Webb on 7 March 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 11 April 1904, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesMY LIFE STORY Written by Lillie L. Barnes (January 25, 1955) I, Lillie Lucile Barnes, was born August 23, 1910, in a small, two-roomed, red brick house in Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho. My father …
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