The unsustantiated claim of distant Irish provenance should not automaticaly give people open licence to ridicule Irish people. My point is not so much about taking the piss out of Irish people. I've put up with English people doing that all my life . It is about the constant paranoia and hypocracy demonstrated by certain people on this and other Threads Incidently this is an entry from surnamesdb.com BARDEN This surname, widely recorded in English Church Registers from the mid 16th Century, is of Anglo-Saxon origin.
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