Burrington Family History
Burrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places called
Burrington, for example in Avon, Devon, and Herefordshire. The first
and last are named with Old English burh ‘fortified place’ +
tun ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’; the second is recorded in
Domesday Book as Bernintone ‘estate associated with a man
called Beorn’. UK 30.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burrington
Name Distribution of Burrington Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burrington families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Burrington Family Origin
Burrington Emigration Information (US)
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Burrington Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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