barnes Family History Facts 1920

barnes Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn’, ‘granary’. In some cases, it may be a habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), which was named in Old English with this word.
English: name borne by the son or servant of a barne, a term used in the early Middle Ages for a member of the upper classes, although its precise meaning is not clear (it derives from Old English beorn, Old Norse barn ‘young warrior’). Barne was also occasionally used as a personal name (from an Old English, Old Norse byname), and some examples of the surname may derive from this use.
Irish: possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
French: variant of Bern.
Jewish: variant of Parnes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Re: CHOCTAW LEWIS IN OK.	jengrimes71	2
Alice Barnes	sharon yool	0
BARNES Alma W 1918-2001	t42MountOlivet	0
MRS. HENRY BARNES-Xenia, OH 1810s	Vickie Mott Friddle	2
Henry Barnes, 1700s, PG, MD.	David Robertson	8
BARNES John A 1911-1977	t42MountOlivet	0
BARNES Grace G 1900-1979	t42MountOlivet	0
Nathan barnes	iowaangel542000_1	0
BARNES children of R S and Mary L Barnes	t42OldAlton_DentonCoTX	0
Looking for Brian Robert Barnes b.1944 & Paul Brian Barnes b.1968	siouxhealer	0