Melissa Burden

Brief Life History of Melissa

When Melissa Burden was born about 1850, in Alliance, Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Amos Burden, was 36 and her mother, Mary Williamson Cathon, was 30. She lived in Lexington, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died before 1860, in Alliance, Stark, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Amos Burden
1815–
Mary Williamson Cathon
1821–1903
Horace Fillmore Burden
1849–1927
Melissa Burden
1850–1860
Louisa Jane Burden
1850–1880
Mary Elizabeth Burden
1852–1936
William Henry Burden
1854–1904

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  • Melissa Pamden in household of Amos, "United States Census, 1850"

Name Meaning

English:

(southern England, of Norman origin): from a diminutive of the ancient Germanic personal name Burdo, for which compare Burdett . Burdonus and other derivatives of the Gaulish personal name Burdo (‘mule’) are found in France, where it is rare and the similar French surname may derive instead from Old French bourdon in the sense ‘pilgrim's staff’ (compare Bourdon 1). The personal name, whether of ancient Germanic or Gaulish origin, does occur in medieval England, but rarely.

habitational name from any of various places called Burdon or Burden. Burden in Yorkshire and Great Burdon in County Durham are named with Old English burh ‘stronghold, fortified place’ + dūn ‘hill’; Burdon in Tyne and Wear is named with Old English b̄re ‘byre’ + denu ‘valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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