Barnes Family

This page collects genealogy for the Barnes Family:

Barnes Main Articles[]

Barnes Family - Core family research page
Barnes Notable People - People of distinction featured in Wikipedia, important migrants and others.
Barnes Disambiguation List - Barnes Family people with identical names sorted.
Barnes Migrants - listings of notable Barnes Migrants.
Barnes Family Landmarks - Notable castles, cemeteries, monuments and much more.
Barnes Baronets - Several lines of the Barnes family featured in ThePeerage of Great Britain.
Barnes Family Ancestry - Royal ancestors of the Barnes Family - Including English, Norman, Irish, Scottish, French and more.

A cautionary note on this genealogy: while generally well-documented with reliable sources, many of them primary, the compilers also used IGI; Family Group Records; and online genealogies on occasion. These latter sources may not be reliable.

Surname Origins[]

Barnes is an English surname and rare given name. At the time of the British Census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Barnes was highest in Dorset (2.9 times the British average), followed by Wiltshire, Cumberland, Hampshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire and Sussex.^[1]

There are multiple theories of the origin of the surname; it is variously suggested to be of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, or Irish provenance. According to one etymology, the name is derived from Old English beorn (warrior), which is in turn of Old Norse origin. In another account, it was simply an occupational name for a person who works in a barn, or a topographic name for a person who lives near a barn.^[2]

Barnes Genealogy by Region[]

Barnes in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Barnes in Salt Lake County, Utah

Other uses[]

Barnes Foundation, art museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Barnes Group, a global industrial and aerospace manufacturer
Barnes Hospital, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England
Barnes–Hut simulation of gravitational forces
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Barnes Municipal Airport, in Westfield, Massachusetts, USA
Barnes Opening, an opening in chess
Barnes Rugby Football Club, a rugby union club in London
Barnes School, Devlali, India
USS Barnes, several warships

Non-SMW Family Name Pages[]

The following list of family person articles should be upgraded to SMW format.

Notes[]

^ "Barnes in the 1881 British Census". British Surnames and Surname Profiles. Good Stuff. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090108230730/http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/BARNES/1881census. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
^ Hanks, Patrick, ed (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.

[1] "Barnes in the 1881 British Census". British Surnames and Surname Profiles. Good Stuff. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090108230730/http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/BARNES/1881census. Retrieved 3 December 2008.

[2] Hanks, Patrick, ed (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.

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