Burnley Family History
Burnley Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Burnley
in Lancashire, so named with the Old English river name Brun
(from brun ‘brown’ or burna ‘stream’) +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burnley
Name Distribution of Burnley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burnley families
 261 - 520  88 - 260 |
 1 - 87  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burnley families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Burnley Family Origin
Burnley Emigration Information (US)
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Burnley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Burnley
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