When Violet Ella Burling was born on 27 June 1889, in Pongaroa, Tararua, New Zealand, her father, George Arthur Burling, was 26 and her mother, Mary Louisa Burling, was 20. She married Raymond Gates on 30 December 1907, in Horowhenua, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 25 November 1956, in Palmerston North, New Zealand, at the age of 67, and was buried in Foxton, Horowhenua, New Zealand.
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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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