Ferdinand Barnes

1839–
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

The Life Summary of Ferdinand

When Ferdinand Barnes was born in 1839, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Silas Parker Barnes, was 34 and his mother, Olive A. Chapman, was 32. He married Abby J Harlow on 12 November 1863, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1870.

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Family Time Line

Ferdinand Barnes
1839–
Mary R. Kenerson
1848–
Marriage: 15 July 1868
Hattie E. Barnes
1869–1873
Eva Frances Barnes
1871–
Edwin Ferdinand Barnes
1875–

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    15 July 1868Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (5)

    World Events (8)

    1841 · Dorr Rebellion
    Age 2
    The Dorr Rebellion, led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, took place from 1841 until 1842. During the Rebellion, the middle-class residents of Rhode Island attempted to force broader democracy to the state legislation.
    1846
    Age 7
    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 31
    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Barrington
    Barns
    Child

    Sources (12)

    • Ferdinand in entry for Eva Frances Barnes, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
    • Ferdinand Barnes, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Ferdinand Barnes, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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