Is There any one researching the name of Barnes?

Answer 1

I'll take a look...I'll get back to you on that... I've looked on name websites and it doesn't have it. I'm curious now because I have some friends with that last name. I found something on Name St USA...the English origin is Bear, son of Barnett. And in Hebrew the derivation is Barnabas, meaning son of consolation or Uncertain. It's the best I could find, I looked on all the sites possible and it would say Barnes not found. Here is another site I found: http://www.last-names.net/surname.asp It says: A distinguished family of Sotterly, Co. Suffolk, England. Bearn, local, a city in France. Barnyz, Cor. Br., a judge. I also got more from the follwing: http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/library/names/etymology_of_last_names.htm

Barnes: English Place Name, from Barnes (in Surry or Aberdeenshire) so named because of the barns that were located there. There were also Barnes families who were known by the name of their father (English Patronymic Name) who was called Barn, a pet form of Barnabas -- a name not used much these days that means 'son of prophesy or consolation.' Some Barnes families are descended from Beorn, a given name that meant 'nobleman' and still others had a patronymic designation from Bairn, a name often given to a young child of a prominent family. That should be enough.

Answer 2

Barnes
This interesting surname has three possible origins; firstly, it may be a topographical name or occupational name of Anglo-Saxon origin, for someone who lived or worked at a barn, deriving from the genitive case or plural of the Middle English "barn", a development of the Olde English pre 7th Century "bern", meaning barn, granary. The placename Barnes, on the Surrey bank of the Thames in West London, has the same origin, and some bearers may be members of families hailing from there. Secondly, it may be of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse origin, and is the name borne by the son or servant of a berne, a term used in the early Middle Ages for a member of the upper classes. It derives from the Olde English "beorn", Old Norse "barn" meaning young warrior. Barne was occasionally used as a given name from an Olde English, Old Norse byname, and some examples of the surname may derive from this use. Thirdly, it may be of Irish origin, an Anglicized form of the Gaelic "O'Bearain", descendant of Bearan, a byname meaning spear. London Church Records list the marriage of John Barnes
to Joane Bowes on September 16th 1539 at St. Mary Woolnoth. One Barnabie Barnes was an early emigrant to the New World, leaving London on the "Transport" in July 1635, bound for Virginia. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Philip de Bernes, which was dated 1250, in "Sir Christopher Hatton's Book of Seals of Surrey", during the reign of
King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272.

Answer 3

Yes my grandmother was born Barnes so we've been trying to trace her side of the family tree. feel free to email me.

Answer 4

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