When Jean Caroline Berry was born in 1920, in Erie, Neosho, Kansas, United States, her father, Marvin Shaw Berry, was 37 and her mother, Myrtle Caroline Wyatt, was 29. She died in 1928, at the age of 8.
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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