Lucrecia Burns

Brief Life History of Lucrecia

When Lucrecia Burns was born on 1 November 1781, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, her father, John M. Burns, was 18 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth McDermot, was 21.

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John M. Burns
1762–1830
Mary Elizabeth McDermot
1760–1813
Lucrecia Burns
1781–
William McKenzie Burns
1783–1849
John W Burns Jr
1784–1863
Capt. James Burns
1786–1875
Tarrance Burns
1788–1854
Sarah Burns
1790–

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    World Events (3)

    1783 · A Free America

    The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

    1786 · Shays' Rebellion

    Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

    1788 · Becomes the 10th state

    On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state. 

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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