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Burden: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Lower says this name is probably a corruption of bourdon, a pilgrim's staff, a very appropriate sign for a wayside hostelry. It may be local, derived from Bour, a house (from the Saxon bure, a bed-chamber), and den, a valley the house in the valley.
Burden Surname Origin
Burden: Place of Origin :  Wiltshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Dorset (United Kingdom) |  Nottinghamshire (United Kingdom) |  County Durham (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)
Burden: Online Family Trees
BURDEN Bosham, Sussex (England, United Kingdom) 1845 - 1845
BURDEN St. Leonard'S Church, Shoreditch (London, England, United Kingdom) 1878 - 1878
BURDEN Stanmer, Sussex (England, United Kingdom) 1807 - 1807
BURDEN Perth, Perth (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1791 - 1791
BURDEN Downton (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1662 - 1662
BURDEN Winchelsea (United Kingdom) 1780 - 1780
BURDEN But (Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1977 - 1977
BURDEN  (United Kingdom) 1980 - 1990
BURDEN Denton (County Durham, England, United Kingdom) 1674 - 1674
BURDEN Devizes (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1815 - 1815

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Burden: Books that contain this surname
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BURDENAmerica's successful men of affairs. An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography (Volume 2)
Author: Hall, Henry, 1845-1920 - Published in 1895
... the suggestion of our countryman, Henry Burden, of Troy, U. S., to whose skill and foresight the present speed of ...		 BURDENAmerica's successful men of affairs. An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography (Volume 2)
Author: Hall, Henry, 1845-1920 - Published in 1895
... a son of the late Henry Burden, manufacturer, inventor and founder of The Troy Iron Works. Mr. Burden's first years ...
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