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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.

A comment from across "The Pond" in Washington State, USA…  My cousin has been doing an ancestry on the Barnes's for me. Here's what we found:

Edward Barnes (1490-1551) married Margaret Bestney (1490-1553). They had a son Thomas Barnes (1515-1557) who married Anne Thimblethorpe (1525-1557). Anne and Thomas had a son Edward Barnes (1544-1615) who married Dorothy Drury (1558-1615). Dorothy's Grandfather was Sir William Drury (1515-1557).

If my cousin has done this correctly he's traced the Barnes's back as far as John Barnes (1120- ?) who married Elizabeth Stoner (1125- ?).

I sent my DNA off to National Geographic and had it analyzed too. The results were very interesting. Some I knew but the really old Barnes stuff I had no idea. You should do it.