Edwin John Barr was born on 3 February 1936 as the son of Albert Floyd Barr. He lived in Plainfield Township, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1981. He died on 3 October 1981, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Algoma Township Cemetery, Rockford, Kent, Michigan, United States.
Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
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