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

Wish to know where the name originated....

Zoolane...
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 25 August 17 21:12 BST (UK)
Which Burns family?  Very common surname

Timescale etc??
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: KGarrad 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.
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: chempat 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?
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: jaybelnz 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
https://www.ancestry.com › name-origin
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 26 August 17 09:04 BST (UK)
This gives a rough guide of surname distribution:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Saturday 26 August 17 10:42 BST (UK)
And then there is the Germanic Jewish origins.

Regards

Malky
Title: Re: Where to find the family name of BURNS???
Post by: Skoosh 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.