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Title: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: uneasyrider on Sunday 22 December 13 13:59 GMT (UK)
My cousin has been doing a genealogy and we can get back as far as John Barnes born in 1120 for the oldest known Barnes we can find. Anyone else get farther, just curious.  :P

Thank you,  :)
Title: Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: Neil Todd on Sunday 22 December 13 23:57 GMT (UK)
Was your record transcribed from Latin. I believe the earliest writings still around are well bound versions of some church records and your very lucky to have found something from the 10th century :o :)

Neil
Title: Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: jbml on Monday 23 December 13 13:21 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Neil Todd on Sunday 22 December 13 23:57 GMT (UK)
your very lucky to have found something from the 10th century :o :)

Neil

He hasn't ... he's found something from the 12th century.

John Barnes born in 1120 is pretty good going by any standards. Are you confident that he is an ancestor? Or is it still conjectural at this stage?
Title: Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: Neil Todd on Monday 23 December 13 14:06 GMT (UK)
How clever of you JBML, you picked up my mistake :D

Merry Christmas. :)
Title: Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: omega 1 on Monday 23 December 13 14:25 GMT (UK)
Surname Barnes

I found  it on house of names.com

It will explain better than I can,seems to be French

omega
Title: Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
Post by: uneasyrider on Monday 23 December 13 15:45 GMT (UK)
What we have found is on our own and done mostly on ancestry.com and in no way do we claim to be experts. I'm pretty confident with what we found going back to the 1600's but after that who knows and if a mistake was made before that it all could be wrong. What we found up to the early 1800's correlates with the little bit of family history I know and after that it's only based on making the connection with birth/death records and making sure the dates look logical, that is, making sure the father and Mother were of childbearing age, the location of the birth appeared logical, etc., and going from there.