When John P. Burnett was born on 10 March 1904, in South Carolina, United States, his father, John Mortimer P. Burnett, was 38 and his mother, Mary Alice "Mamie" Walton, was 32. He died on 20 June 1905, at the age of 1, and was buried in Graniteville Cemetery, Graniteville, Aiken, South Carolina, United States.
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Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin, from Old French burnete, a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ), or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete, a high quality woolen cloth, originally dark brown in color.
Probably also an altered form of English Barnett .
In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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