Talk:Barrett

Removed a name
I removed the name "Dan Barrett (Kid) Australian Kid" Basically because it's dumb. Paul Norfolk Dumpling 18:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Old English
I found somewhere once, that in Old English, the word 'Barrett' means 'Dispute', but I can't seem to locate the site I found this on. Can anyone help? Paul Norfolk Dumpling 18:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Barrett Rifles
Someone needs to add the Barrett .50 Cal Rifle to this list -- Huper Phuff   talk  00:43, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Ethel Barrett
Please add Ethel Barrett to the list. She sold millions of books during her time as a world famous Christian storyleller. There is another wiki article on her already as she'd won Grammy's for her work. She wrote the book 'Storytelling, it's easy' which is still used today in some college courses. 68.118.32.157 (talk) 20:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Origin - possible OR?
Does anyone have anything on Barrett meaning "intellectual son"? There's nothing in the article about its etymology or what language it's from, and I've never heard anything about this origin before. Sources anyone? Redstar177 (talk) 21:20, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Given name
Barrett (var. Barret) is also a given name, though it's less common than the surname. The use and popularity should be included in the article. Demi T/C 18:20, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Anglo-Irish?
It seems quite wrong to refer to the Barretts of Ireland, in Connacht and Munster, as "Anglo-Irish", a term usually used to describe an eighteenth-century English/British community in Ireland. The Barretts have been in Ireland since shortly after 1169. There is extensive evidence that they had all become wholly gaelicised, had established their families into septs, operated under Brehon Law and spoke Irish. In this context, it just sounds wrong to call the Irish family "Anglo-Irish". A good analogy would be calling the Fitzgerald family of Norman origin "Anglo-Irish". It wouldn't happen. If there is an English family, perhaps then it would be better to say that Barrett is a surname which is both Irish and English, representing at least two separate families, of Norman and English origin respectively? Dunlavin Green (talk) 11:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)