The burns Surname
burns Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or streams, from the Middle English nominative plural or genitive singular of burn (see Bourne).
- Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn ‘stream’ + house ‘house’.
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne).
- Jewish (American): Americanized and shortened form of Bernstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| BURNS Anna T 1907-1978 |
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| Burns from Ontario/manitoba |
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| Peter Burns & Jane Miller |
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| BURNS Oakley W 1903-1975 |
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| burns philadelphia area | frank burns | 8 |
| Burns from Scotland |
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| BURNS Joseph Anson 1909-1966 |
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| Alice Burns |
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| Robert Emmett Burns-Iowa, OK 1900 | Karen Cooley | 9 |
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