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burnley Name Meaning and History

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Burnley in Lancashire, so named with the Old English river name Brun (from brun ‘brown’ or burna ‘stream’) + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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burnley Family Facts

Distribution of burnley Families in the US in 1920
Number of burnley families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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