When William Burling was born on 18 September 1708, in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States, his father, William Burling Sr., was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Slocum, was 25. He married Sarah Bowne on 1 December 1729, in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 7 June 1745, in his hometown, at the age of 36.
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probably a shortened form of Anglo-Norman French Burguillun, a variant of Old French Bourguignon ‘the Burgundian’; see Burgin .
habitational name from Birling (Farm) in East Dean (Sussex), or Birling in Kent, both named from Old English Bǣrlingas ‘(the place of) Bǣrla's people’. See also Barling .
possibly an altered form of Burland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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