When William Thomas Burnett was born on 15 November 1892, in Pennfield, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, his father, Aaron E Burnett, was 48 and his mother, Adrainia Dugger, was 40. He married Ella Webb on 4 August 1916, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He died on 6 November 1918, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.
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 .
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