When Edgar L Burr was born in March 1856, his father, Bela Burr, was 50 and his mother, Hannah Hull Rutty, was 47. He died on 27 March 1857, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Burr District Cemetery, Higganum, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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