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burden Name Meaning and History

  1. (of Norman origin) from the Old French personal name Burdo (oblique case Burdon), probably of Germanic origin, but uncertain meaning.
  2. nickname for a pilgrim or one who carried a pilgrim’s staff, Middle English, Old French bourdon.
  3. habitational name from any of various places called Burdon or Burden. Burden in West Yorkshire and Great Burdon in County Durham are named with Old English burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified place’ + dun ‘hill’; Burdon in Tyne and Wear is named with Old English b¯re ‘byre’ + denu ‘valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burden Families in the US in 1920
Number of burden families
 72-141
 25-71		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 288 - Messages: 694
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dlburden RWLaity1 0
Thomas Burden a missing son of Catherine Walsh trat29 1
Alice Agnes BURDEN (b. 1858) PhilipPawley 1
Thomas Johnson Burden CWright8065 1
Burden Family ggb7011 0
Burdens of Auglaize County, Ohio RalphBedwell 1
Kentucky Burdens PhylisCox 14
BURDENS EUGANDAL 12
Finis Burden and second wife KY>Grayson, TX mrstkdsd 8
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