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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BARNWELL

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(origin: Local) From the old English Bearne, a wood, and veld, a field.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from a place so called; there is one in Cambridgeshire and another in Northamptonshire, both named with Old English beorn ‘warrior’ (genitive plural beorna) or the Old English personal name Beorna + well(a) ‘stream’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)