When Edwin Perry Burnham was born on 6 September 1818, in Roxbury, Washington, Vermont, United States, his father, James Lewis Burnham Sr, was 27 and his mother, Frances E Hibbard, was 26. He married Harriet Newell Edwards on 22 May 1838. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Vermont, United States in 1870. He died on 21 November 1894, in Roxbury, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Roxbury, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English burna ‘stream’ + hām ‘homestead’. In the case of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr ‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the springs’.
History: In 1635 Robert Burnham and his two brothers came from England to Ipswich, MA, after their ship was wrecked on the coast of Maine. In the mid 18th century John Burnham and his son, also called John, were among the early settlers in what became the state of VT. In 1785, the younger John Burnham established himself at Middletown, CT.
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