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Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« on: Friday 25 August 17 21:04 BST (UK) »
Researching the Burns Family....

Wish to know where the name originated....

Zoolane...
Thorn,Critchley,Smith,Bonehill,Rainbow,Upton.
Associated Families in Snitterfield and Stratford,Shipston on Stour
Wright Family of Wrights Ropes Ltd.,

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #1 on: Friday 25 August 17 21:12 BST (UK) »
Which Burns family?  Very common surname

Timescale etc??
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Carlin (Ireland & Liverpool) Doughty & Wright (Liverpool) Dick & Park (Scotland & Liverpool)

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #2 on: Friday 25 August 17 21:45 BST (UK) »
I've done a tree for my drinking buddy - he's a Burns ;D

Burns in the tree were born Isle of Man, Liverpool, Manchester (1820s and 1830s).
Earliest I have found is David Burns, b1808, Ireland.

There the trail runs cold.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 26 August 17 08:19 BST (UK) »
Any reason why you have asked your question on the Warwick board - try on a general one?

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 26 August 17 08:55 BST (UK) »
From Mr Google!

Burns Family History. 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'.
Burns Name Meaning & Burns Family History at Ancestry.com
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FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 26 August 17 09:04 BST (UK) »
This gives a rough guide of surname distribution:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 26 August 17 10:42 BST (UK) »
And then there is the Germanic Jewish origins.

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Malky

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Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 26 August 17 15:40 BST (UK) »
Originally Burness in Scotland & from the NW as was Robert Burns father who moved to Ayrshire & the family dropped the es! Many of the name in Scotland are of Irish origin.

Skoosh.
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