Barnett

One-Name Study

About the Barnett One-Name Study

Having started looking into my family back in the 1990's, I chanced upon the Guild of One Name Studies, and realised that I could maintain a Study for my name with the large numbers of Barnett entries I was finding at that time. I subsequently set up this site in 2008.

Little did I know just how many entries I would locate - having used a card index I went onto computer in 1990 with 2000 records, and now have over 100,000.

I have a large number of contacts who share my name or who have the name in their own families, and it is now quite rare for me not to be able to enhance someones knowledge when they contact me.

Most of my contacts are in the UK, but I have quite a number from North America and Australia/New Zealand.

Variants

The following variations of the name Barnett are presently included within the database:-

Barnett Barnet Barnette BARNETSON

1851 Census occurences Surname BARNETT Frequency 5922

Surname BARNET Frequency 61
Surname BARNETSON Frequency 23
Forename BARNETT Frequency 243
Forename BARNET Frequency 146

In addition, sometimes the name has been entered as Barrett or BARTLETT in some parish registers and census records. For various reasons the name has also been found as BARROTT, Barratt in census indexes. There is the odd example of it being found as Barnitt, but these instances are surprisingly rare.

Some of the countries and possible foreign origins of Barnetts are England (Barnes, Bernard, Barnard), Germany (Barnhard/Bernhardt, Barndt), France (Barnard/Bernard), Italy (Bernardi), Jews from Poland and Russia (Berjinski and other spellings) Spain and Hispanic countries (Bernardo). I am sure there are many others.

Origin of the surname

The name Barnett is thought to derive from the meaning 'Bar' (son of) Nett (fisherman). However it is more likely to come from Barnet meaning 'burnt land' as in High Barnet, Chipping Barnet or Friern Barnet in Greater London, named with Old English bærnet ‘place cleared by burning’ (a derivative of bærnan ‘to burn’, ‘to set light to’). The name of the town appears in early deeds as Bergnet, the Saxon word Bergnet signifies a little hill, monticulus.
It could be from a medieval personal name, a variant of Bernard.. There is some evidence which suggests that Barnett may be a separate name in it's own right.

Data

My database now extends to over 100,000 entries, and the main parts of this are as follows :-

GRO Birth, Marriage and Death records from 1837 to 2002.

Census entries - complete from 1841 to 1901 as far as humanly possible! I keep finding entries missed previously, wrongly indexed in a variety of projects and so on.

Large numbers of parish register entries have been extracted from Staffordshire and Worcestershire parishes, in addition to those entries in the IGI and Vital Records indexes.

All entries from the US census up to 1930 are held.

All entries from the Voters Roll and Telephone directories (for 2004) are held.

Links

http://micbarnette.bravepages.com/_barnett_dna_project.html

freeREG barnett staffs bmd.xls

freeREG barnett derviatives staffs bmd.xls

freeREG barnett staffs bmd related.xls

1984-2005 barnett bmd wolverhampton.xls

1984-2005 barnett bmd birmingham mar 1980-2005.xls

1984-2005 barnett bmd all birth from death.xls

1841 census piece numbers.htm

1901 census piece numbers.htm