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The name Burkewoold is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived near a stand of birch trees. Further research showed the name was derived from the Old English word birce, meaning birch.
The surname Burkewoold was first found in Yorkshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Burkewoold research. Another 147 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1177, 1332, 1342, 1349, 1369, 1608 and 1616 are included under the topic Early Burkewoold History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Burkewoold family name include Birchwood, Berchwood, Birchwoode, Birchwude, Birchewode and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Burkewoold Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Burkewoold surname or a spelling variation of the name include : a number of settlers who arrived by the 19th century.