William Francis Burlingame

Brief Life History of William Francis

When William Francis Burlingame was born on 14 August 1871, in Albia, Monroe, Iowa, United States, his father, Andrew Cole Burlingame, was 28 and his mother, Mary Susan Forsythe, was 24. He married Martha M. Moore on 11 September 1901, in Larimer, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Wellington, Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Colorado, United States in 1950. He died on 3 October 1955, in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States.

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William Francis Burlingame
1871–1955
Pensacola Shearer
1885–1927
Marriage: 1 January 1918
Katheryn Burlingame
1919–2008
William Andrew Burlingame
1921–2007
Margaret Elizabeth Burlingame
1922–1972

Sources (13)

  • Wm Burlingame, "United States Census, 1920"
  • William F Burlingame, "Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015"
  • William F Burlingame, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"

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Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla's or Byrla's people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla's people’. This surname is now rare in Britain.

History: Joel Burlingame was a Methodist exhorter and lay preacher at New Berlin, NY, in the 1820s. His son Anson Burlingame, born in New Berlin in 1820, headed the first diplomatic mission to China and negotiated the Burlingame Treaty (1868).

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

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