When Henry Burrows was born in 1832, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Burrows, was 37 and his mother, Susannah Dewhurst, was 30. He married Ann Boothway on 18 June 1853, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years. He died on 15 March 1895, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English:
variant of Burrow , with excrescent -s.
(mainly Sheffield): occasionally also a topographic name or occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a house with a chamber for conducting manorial business (Middle English bour, Old English būr ‘bower, chamber’, + hous ‘house’). Compare Burroughs and Burris .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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