When Henry Burrow was born on 26 October 1730, in Bristol Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Burrow, was 35 and his mother, Joanna Cooke, was 31. He married Lucy Dobson in 1754, in Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1787, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 57.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a castle or manor house, or in a town, especially a chartered town or borough (Middle English burgh, Old English burg ‘fortified place, borough, manor’), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named because it was a fortified town or near an ancient fort, such as Burrow (Leicestershire, Lancashire), Burrough Green (Cambridgeshire), Brough (numerous counties), and Peterborough (Northamptonshire); see also Burgh .
topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or near a mound (Middle English bergh, Old English beorg), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, such as Burrow (Devon, Somerset). Middle English bergh became throughly confused with burgh in 1 above. Compare Burrough .
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