When Robert Hamilton Burney Sr was born about 3 November 1793, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Burney, was 37 and his mother, Mary Mebane, was 22. He married Lydia McCain in 1814, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in McNairy, McNairy, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died about 1852, in McNairy, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 60.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (northern, of Norman origin): habitational name from Bernay in Eure, France, named with a Gaulish personal name Brenno + the locative suffix -acum.
Irish (Antrim) and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Biorna ‘son of Biorna’, a Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from björn ‘bear cub, warrior’).
English: variant of Barney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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