Burnham Family History
Burnham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various
villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English
burna ‘stream’ + ham ‘homestead’. In the case of
Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English
hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named
from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr
‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the
springs’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burnham
Name Distribution of Burnham Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burnham families
 198 - 394  67 - 197 |
 1 - 66  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burnham families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burnham census records
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Burnham Family Origin
Burnham Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Burnham Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Burnham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Burnham census records
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Military Service by Burnham
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