Bury Family History
- Bury Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery). French: habitational name from places so named in Marne and Oise. The place name is from Buriacum, the name of a Gallo-Roman estate, composed of the personal name Burius + the locative suffix -acum. German: probably a variant spelling of Buri. According to Gottschald, however, it is from French Purry. Czech (Burý): topographic name from bur ‘pine wood’. Czech (Burý): descriptive nickname from burý ‘dark’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 276,914 Historical Documents with Bury on Ancestry
- 131,791 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
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- 8,688 Immigration Records
- 69,331 Member Trees
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Number of Bury families
 726 - 1,449  243 - 725 |
 1 - 242  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bury families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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