When Mary Jane Burns was born in January 1853, in Bibb, Alabama, United States, her father, William Wilton Burns, was 57 and her mother, Martha Gilliland White, was 44. She married Reuben Lewis from 1870 to 1872, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Scottsville, Bibb, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Election Precinct 2 Scottsville, Bibb, Alabama, United States in 1930. She died in 1933, at the age of 80.
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Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
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