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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BARSTOW

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(origin: Local) May have various significations. Barr, the top of a hill, and stow, a place or depository. Bar, in the Gaelic, Welsh, and Cornish-British, means the summit or top of any thing. The Gaelic or Irish aran and barr, signify bread, a crop of grain; Welsh, bar, bread, an ear of corn; Saxon, bar and bere, corn, barley. Barstow, a place where grain is stored.

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