When Enoch Burns was born on 2 November 1807, in Ascot, La Région-Sherbrookoise, Quebec, Canada, his father, James L. Burns, was 21 and his mother, Hannah Tupper, was 21. He married Elizabeth Jane Pierce on 11 January 1842, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1851. In 1880, at the age of 73, his occupation is listed as farmer in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. He died on 19 February 1901, in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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