Burrows Family History
Burrows Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or
tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German
berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become
confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see
Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English
bur ‘bower’ + hus ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Burrows
Name Distribution of Burrows Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burrows families
 1,250 - 2,497  417 - 1,249 |
 1 - 416  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burrows families
|
57 - 111 20 - 56 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burrows census records
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Burrows Family Origin
Burrows Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Burrows Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Burrows Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Burrows census records
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Military Service by Burrows
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