Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Barnes was born on 4 December 1713, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Barnes, was 44 and her mother, Mary Bartlett, was 42. She married Lemuel Barnes on 3 May 1735, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1713. She died on 5 March 1774, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 60.
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- Lidiah Barnes, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lydia Barnes, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Lydia Barnes, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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.
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