When John Caldwell Burns was born in 1627, his father, James Burn, was 15 and his mother, Helein Kilpatrick Lyoun Burns, was 44. He had at least 1 daughter. He died in 1684, at the age of 57.
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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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