French for Barrel?

During my time on the lookout for the funding of the Grasby project I have come across many names and a number of them have ended up in this column. One that has turned up just the once is that of beharrell. The name also came up again recently on the internet with the question “Could the BEHARRELL surname have turned up as BARRELL?” A search soon turns up a history of the BEHARRELL family, along with the information that they came to England from Northern France and Holland in 1626. The first recorded instance in England of the name BEHARRELL was in 1587 when a family of that name was living in Canterbury, a town on the south coast close to the English Channel and France. There is no record of the continued existence of this family. Almost all BEHARRELLS in England, the USA, Canada and Australia can trace their origins to the three BEHARRELL families of French Huguenots (Walloons) who arrived here in 1626 as part of a larger group of 85 families, to carry out drainage work in the Isle of Axholme, and the marshy area on the border between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The Huguenot community in France had become subject to religious persecution and as a result of this some of the community left France and fled to Holland, settling down in the town of Middleburg on the small island of Walcheren immediately north of the border with France.
It is thought that the Middleburg community went as a body to Sandtoft in the Isle of Axholme. The BEHARRELL families in England must have kept contact with their friends and relatives in Walcheren because in 1794 Anna BEHARRELL (d. 1794) widow of Abraham (b. 1702 d. 1776) bequeathed 25 pounds to her daughter Elizabeth GRABOURN "now settled in Flushing in Zealand". Flushing is on the island of Walcheren about 6 miles south of Middleburg. After the drainage of the Isle of Axholme was finished, the families split, one group moving south about 70 miles to the Fens around Peterborough. The other moved a short distance of 10 miles north to the area around Snaith and Drax, then moving some 30 miles east to settle in Wawne in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Research was carried out in 1989 to 1991, with a small addition in 1995 and added to work already done by John BEHARRELL (1893 - 1956), Sir George BEHARRELL (1873 - 1959) and by Gordon and June BEHARRELL of Shrewsbury and the results can be found on the internet. However Frank DICKENSON has been looking for the last ten years and is still looking for one important piece of information. This is the date and place of birth of Robert BEHARRELL who was born between 1705 and say 1720 probably in Wawne or a nearby parish. He died in 1790. There are still BEHARRELLS in the area today. I have been unable to find the meaning of the name but it does occasionally get spelt BARRELL.
Bits and Bobs
LRSM - 23rd May 1800 - If the Legal Representatives of Charles FOWLER, Son of Joseph FOWLER, formerly of Goltho in the County of Lincoln. Gent, deceased and of Selina FOWLER, daughter of the same Joseph FOWLER, will apply to Mr BALDWIN, Attorney at Law in Lincoln, they will hear of something to their advantage. The said Charles FOWLER was bound Apprentice in the Year 1773 from Christ´s Hospital, London to a Captain RATCLIFFE, who then traded to Jamaica: was afterwards in the Year 1777, a Midshipman on Board one of His Majesty´s Ships then lying at Spithead; and in the month of February 1779, was in Quebec in Canada. The said Selina FOWLER married a Mr SPENCER, supposed to be a Sea-faring Man, and died about the Year 1769.