Bury Family History
Bury Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of
Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The
place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English
burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used
after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery).French:
habitational name from places so named in Marne and Oise. The place
name is from Buriacum, the name of a Gallo-Roman estate,
composed of the personal name Burius + the locative suffix
-acum.German: probably a variant spelling of
Buri. According to Gottschald, however, it is from French
Purry.Czech (Burý): topographic name from
bur ‘pine wood’.Czech (Burý): descriptive
nickname from burý ‘dark’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bury Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bury families
 726 - 1,449  243 - 725 |
 1 - 242  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bury families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bury Family Origin
Bury Emigration Information (US)
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Bury Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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