Buren Family History
- Buren Name Meaning
- Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names beginning with the element Boro. Dutch: short form of Van Buren. German (Büren; also Buhren, Bühren): from Old High German bür ‘small house’, ‘chamber’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived ‘near the houses’ or a habitational name from any of various places throughout Germany and in parts of Switzerland named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 284,184 Historical Documents with Buren on Ancestry
- 68,751 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,376 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,886 Military Records
- 4,031 Immigration Records
- 170,140 Member Trees
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Number of Buren families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Buren families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Buren census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 9
- Union
- 16
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