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barriere Name Meaning and History

French (Barrière): occupational name for a gatekeeper, from Old French barier, an agent derivative of barre ‘bar’ (see Barre). In the U.S. Barrière is also documented in the translated form Gates. Compare English Porter.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the barriere family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of barriere Families in the US in 1920
Number of barriere families
 4-6
 2-3
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 5 - Messages: 11
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Edward Barriere-Gates daduchene 2
Barriere, Hilary Francis VictorianFlowers7 0
Rene Barriere{Langevine) and Genevieve Giroux nickryan73 0
Rene Barriere dit Langevin and Agathe Laporte dit Saint-Georges Paulette 2
Barrirre who changed name to Gates daduchene 2
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