The bury Surname

bury Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery).
French: habitational name from places so named in Marne and Oise. The place name is from Buriacum, the name of a Gallo-Roman estate, composed of the personal name Burius + the locative suffix -acum.
German: probably a variant spelling of Buri. According to Gottschald, however, it is from French Purry.
Czech (Burý): topographic name from bur ‘pine wood’.
Czech (Burý): descriptive nickname from burý ‘dark’.

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The bury name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bury family name as far back in history as possible.

bury Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of bury Families in the US in 1920

Number of bury families

29-56

10-28

1-9

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BURY, coal miners in Missouri/Kansas	d_minds	0
Seeking John J. BURIE / BURY of Civil War in the 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company E	JoeNihen	0
BURY arriving from Switzerland 1824 to Ohio	drhosler	0
William Bury, born in 1749, Major in the British Army	Ruth E. bury	3
BURY descendants Mietesheim, France to Essex County, NJ	Glenn	0
addition to Amanda Bury (like Fury) name	egamemnar	3
James C. Bury Jr. from St. Louis, MO	rtill1_1	3
1871 Admission to citizenship of C.H. BURY, a native of Canada, in CA	danderup	4
Bury's (Like Fury)	Ruth E. Bury	1
Bury	Ruth E. Bury	0

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