Name meaning: A distinguished family of Sotterly, Suffolk, Eng.; Bearn, local, a city in France; Cornish British Ki>Barnyz, a judge. Traces of the family are found in England under Norman kings. The name may be also a corruption of the Norse bjoin, signifying warrior. The family seat for five hundred years has been in Surrey, England. Sir Hugo de Berners came from France with William the Conqueror. A clear pedigree of the family begins with John Berners of West Horsley, Surrey, in 1347.
m.Mary Plummer
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b.abt.1590; parents ukn
m.Mary Andrews
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b.1610/1615; s/o Thomas Barnes and Mary Andrews
d.March 14, 1697 Salisbury, MA
m.(1)June 23, 1630 Salisbury, MA Louisa Mellor
m.(2)1637 Rachel Lord
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From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: William was a freeman at Salisbury, Mass., 1641; one of the first settlers of Amesbury, Mass., 1654.
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