When John Burrows was born on 19 September 1871, in Fredonia Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, his father, Alonzo James Burrows Burroughs, was 33 and his mother, Julia Ann Hoyt, was 28. He died on 19 September 1871, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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English:
variant of Burrow , with excrescent -s.
(mainly Sheffield): occasionally also a topographic name or occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a house with a chamber for conducting manorial business (Middle English bour, Old English būr ‘bower, chamber’, + hous ‘house’). Compare Burroughs and Burris .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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