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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,243,653 Historical Documents with Burns on Ancestry
- 1,820,827 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,280,290 Census and Voter Lists
- 258,159 Military Records
- 166,223 Immigration Records
- 1,718,154 Member Trees
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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
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1,478 - 2,953 493 - 1,477 |
1 - 492 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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