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Offline uneasyrider

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Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« 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,  :)

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Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« Reply #1 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 :)

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Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« Reply #2 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?
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 23 December 13 14:06 GMT (UK) »
How clever of you JBML, you picked up my mistake :D

Merry Christmas. :)
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Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« Reply #4 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
Pembrokeshire
James,Gibby,David/Davies,Evan/s,Edward,Thomas,Griffith,Brown,Richards,Phillipps
Carmarthenshire
Thomas,Wilkin,James
Glamorganshire
James
Husbands side
Sussex,Mitchell,White,Hew/Hugh,Peter/s,Lower,Goring,Skinner,Cavey,Padgham,Brann,Graves,Hards,Easton,Moon,Gibb/s,Shepherd
Kent,Curties,Harris/Cleverly
Buckinhamshire
Shephard,Tuck,Philips

Scotland,Riddle

Todd,could be Old Windsor or somewhere I Lincolnshire,John Todd didn't seem to know

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Re: Oldest reference to the Barnes family name?
« Reply #5 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.
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