When Susan Ann Burns was born on 6 April 1834, her father, William James Burns, was 42 and her mother, Rhoda Jones, was 38. She lived in Madison, Tennessee, United States in 1850. She died on 12 November 1885, in Chester, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Old Montezuma Cemetery, Montezuma, Chester, Tennessee, United States.
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.
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