Brief Life History of Leonard Albert
When Leonard Albert Burrell was born on 12 January 1928, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Alexander Henry Burrell, was 24 and his mother, Ellen Jerusha Rugg, was 20. He lived in Detroit Ward 19, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 3 July 2003, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Montvale, Bedford, Virginia, United States.
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- Leonard Burrell in household of Alexander Burrell, "United States Census, 1940"
- Leonard A Burrell, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Leonard in entry for Mrs Hazel Faulkner Burrell, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1929 · The Ambassador Bridge Complete
The Ambassador Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Detroit River that connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Construction finished on November 6 and shortly became the busiest international boarder in North America in terms of trade volume. When it was completed, it was the longest suspended central span bridge in the world and held that record until 1931 with the construction the George Washington Bridge in New York.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
English:
nickname from Middle English, Old French burel, borel (also birel) ‘reddish brown’, referring perhaps to complexion or hair color. This was occasionally used by Normans as a personal name, perhaps a nickname substituted for the personal name. The word also denoted a coarse woollen cloth of this color, so the surname may sometimes refer to dress, or it may be a nickname for a maker of the cloth, a bureller.
habitational name from Burwell in Lincolnshire, see Burwell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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