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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Cheshire and East Yorkshire named Burland. The first is named with Old English (ge)būr ‘peasant’ + land ‘land’; the second from Old English b̄re ‘byre’, ‘cow shed’ + land.

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