When James Wiley Burch was born on 18 March 1855, in Charles, Maryland, United States, his father, James Washington Burch, was 39 and his mother, Susanna Rebecca Carpenter, was 31. He married Mary Caroline Carrie Gardiner in 1877, in Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Patuxent, Charles, Maryland, United States in 1880 and Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1910. He died in 1918, in Bryantown, Charles, Maryland, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in St. Mary's, Maryland, United States.
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English: variant of Birch .
German; Dutch (Van der Burch): variant of Burg .
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