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burrows Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English bur ‘bower’ + hus ‘house’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burrows Families in the US in 1920
Number of burrows families
 148-294
 50-147		 1-49
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Threads: 567 - Messages: 1283
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BURROWS Mary Clairmont 12
Whit Burrows Family Glenda Garrison 3
Walter Raymond Burrows, Jr., 82, son of the late Raymond W. and Laura Dalrymple Burrows. KENNELLYMARKA 0
Walter Burrows b 1920 can anyone help, wales justinehughes1 0
Trying to find Brian Burrows or Family of Belgrave67 3
Obit; Naomi Burrows 1942-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
Burrows Family Crest adam burrows 5
Chester Davis Burrows Sr,Chester Davis Burrows Jr. Brooklyn,NY DanMcIntyre39 6
Frank Burrows Czeslawa 2
Charles Burrows lorrainestawicki38 0
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