Barnard

Some of the Barnard family in England may have been Huguenots[2] who fled from the Atlantic coast region of France circa 1685 (the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes) or earlier than that date.

An example of this is Christiaan Barnard, A South African Cardiac Surgeon who performed the first Successful Heart Transplant.The surname is Also found in Australia and North America because of mostly UK and Huguenot immigration from Europe.

Other families bearing or subsequently adopting the surname Barnard arrived as Jewish immigrants from continental Europe after 1656 [5] and are well documented.

It is also found in France, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, and occasionally in Germany.

corresponding family names are BAER, BER, BERR, BEHR, BERNHARDT, BERNARD (in France).