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| | Family name history - Barnes « Eric Barnes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | The English surname Barnes is of local origin, being one of those surnames derived from the place where a man once lived or where he once held land. |
 | | In this case, the name is derived the place name Barnes which is in Surrey or from a residence at or near a barn. |
 | | Barnabe Barnes (1569-1609), English lyric poet, Thomas Barnes (1785-1841), English journalist, who was editor of 8220;The Times”; and who was nicknamed, along with his paper, “The Thunderer”, William Barnes (1874-1953), English clergyman and mathematician and Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), American writer and painter. |
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