Burt Family History
- Burt Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: from the Old English personal name Byrht, a byform of Be(o)rht ‘bright’. Compare Bert. German: Middle High German burt ‘that which is due or proper’, therefore a nickname for someone who has fulfilled his obligations properly. Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): variant of Burd.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,671,231 Historical Documents with Burt on Ancestry
- 479,064 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 325,913 Census and Voter Lists
- 54,924 Military Records
- 33,055 Immigration Records
- 778,275 Member Trees
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Number of Burt families
 544 - 1,085  182 - 543 |
 1 - 181  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burt families
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74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Burt census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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