Surnames

[4winds]

Does anyone know the origin( geographic or linguistic) of the name "BAIRNER" ?

[craft1948]

All the ones on ancestry.co seem to originate from Scotland

[4winds]

Thank you craft1948 - shall follow that line.

[craft1948]

there's 2 in the dundee telephone directory

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.conten t/en/search/residential/search.publisha?Surnam e=bairner&Location=dundee&x=31&y=9

[dot.hawkes]

At first it might appear to be an occupational or patronymic surname, however, I am inclined to think it may well be a form of nickname, possibly hundreds of years ago, someone was known as the Bairn or child of someone else, and the name stuck as a nickname and developed from there. It has it's origins in Scotland or the far North of England.

[4winds]

Thank you dot - that's a very interesting theory.
I shall continue my research.