Re: What decent is the name Barner?
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What decent is the name Barner?
Joe Wittich 9/29/99
Mr. Wittich,
I heard an interesting theory from a German woman I met while traveling in Ireland some years back. She said the middle German word for "bear" sounds like Barner. (She said it's something like "berna".) She theorized the name had something to do with bear hunting. That's just a guess.
Craig Barner