When Naomi Burrows was born in 1885, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Herbert Burrows, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Ann Ward, was 36. She died in 1888, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 3.
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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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