When Voscoe Leon Burnham was born on 22 January 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Francis Burnham, was 34 and his mother, Euphemia Jane Irvine, was 33. He married Ardella Moyes Leavitt on 18 August 1931, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 15 years. He died on 18 May 1983, in Anaheim, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English burna ‘stream’ + hām ‘homestead’. In the case of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr ‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the springs’.
History: In 1635 Robert Burnham and his two brothers came from England to Ipswich, MA, after their ship was wrecked on the coast of Maine. In the mid 18th century John Burnham and his son, also called John, were among the early settlers in what became the state of VT. In 1785, the younger John Burnham established himself at Middletown, CT.
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