Barrett Family History
Barrett Name Meaning
It may be from
a medieval personal name, but if so the form is unclear.Alternatively, it may be a nickname for a quarrelsome or deceitful
person, from Middle English bar(r)et(t)e, bar(r)at
‘trouble’, ‘strife’, ‘deception’, ‘cheating’ (Old French barat
‘commerce’, ‘dealings’, a derivative of barater ‘to
haggle’). It is possible that the original sense of barat
survived unrecorded into Middle English as a word for a market trader;
the Italian cognate Baratta has this sense. It could also be a
nickname or metonymic occupational name from Old French barette
‘cap’, ‘bonnet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barrett
Name Distribution of Barrett Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barrett families
 2,184 - 4,365  729 - 2,183 |
 1 - 728  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barrett families
|
74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Barrett Family Origin
Barrett Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barrett Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Barrett Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barrett census records
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Military Service by Barrett
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