Burrell Family History
- Burrell Name Meaning
- English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense ‘reddish brown’ and may have been applied as a nickname referring to dress or complexion. Compare Borel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 798,087 Historical Documents with Burrell on Ancestry
- 289,533 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 171,752 Census and Voter Lists
- 25,208 Military Records
- 16,682 Immigration Records
- 294,912 Member Trees
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Number of Burrell families
 311 - 619  104 - 310 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burrell families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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