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BARDEN Family History

This surname, widely recorded in English Church Registers from the mid 16th Century, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from either of two places called Barden in Yorkshire, or from some minor, unrecorded, or now "lost" place thus called in the south east of England. Barden near Leyburn in the Yorkshire North Riding, entered as "Bernedan" in the Domesday Book of 1086, has as its component elements the Olde English pre 7th Century adjective "beren", "of barley", from "bere", barley, with "denu", a dene, valley, and Barden near Skipton in the West Riding, recorded as "Berden" in 1314, is also named with these elements.