Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Barnes was born on 2 October 1808, in Blaisdon, Gloucestershire, England, her father, Thomas Barnes, was 23 and her mother, Esther Jones, was 26. She married Elijah Clifford on 25 December 1835, in Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Abenhall, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 8 June 1850, in Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Iowa, United States.
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- Harriett Clifford in household of Elijah Clifford, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Harriett Burns, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Church of England, Blaisdon, Gloucestershire Parish Registers, Gloucestershire Archives P49 IN 1/2, digital image in "Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813", ancestry.co.uk
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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