When Kenneth John Berry was born on 29 March 1924, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, his father, Richard Berry, was 26 and his mother, Ina Beatrice Banks, was 24. He lived in Orosi, Tulare, California, United States in 1930 and Orosi Judicial Township, Tulare, California, United States in 1940. He died on 6 November 2010, in Dinuba, Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 86.
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara ‘descendant of Béara’, a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie .
English: habitational name from any of several places called in Devon named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house, stronghold’, such as Berry Pomeroy and Berrynarbor.
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