Brief Life History of William
When William Burgh was born in 1452, in Catterick, Yorkshire, England, his father, William Brough, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Conyers, was 22. He married Cecily Metcalfe about 1487, in Catterick, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died in 1506, in Brough Hall, Yorkshire, England, at the age of 54, and was buried in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- History of Catterick and the Burghs
- Broughs of Yorkshire, England
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from one or other of the ten English places named Burgh in northern England and East Anglia, or the six named Brough in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Westmorland, and Yorkshire. All these are from Old English burg, burh, Middle English burgh ‘massive earthwork, fortification; manor, borough’. Compare Bury . The placename Burgh is pronounced as borough. The surname Brough arose equally from places now called Burgh and Brough, and is the more common form of the surname in modern Britain, where it is pronounced bruff or broof (/brʊf/). The Scottish surname was probably brought in from Yorkshire. For the surname in Ireland see Burke .
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