When Thomas Burdick was born on 17 September 1796, in Canajoharie, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Gideon Burdick, was 33 and his mother, Catherine Robertson, was 26. He married Anna Higley on 18 March 1828, in Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in San Gabriel Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1860 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1870. He died on 6 November 1877, in San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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English (Middlesex): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English burre-dokke ‘burdock’, the name of a prickly plant with burrs and dock-like leaves (usually Arctium lappa), common on waste ground. It may have been given to someone of a prickly temperament or perhaps to someone with a hoarse voice.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Boerdijk: habitational name from a settlement named Boerdijk, composed of boer ‘peasant, farmer, countryman’ and dijk ‘dike’.
History: Robert Burdick was a freeman of Newport, RI, in 1655.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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