Burns Family History
Burns Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burns
Name Distribution of Burns Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burns families
 2,086 - 4,169  696 - 2,085 |
 1 - 695  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burns families
|
1,478 - 2,953 493 - 1,477 |
1 - 492 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burns census records
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Burns Family Origin
Burns Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Burns Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Burns Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Burns census records
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