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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old English personal name Burgheard (see Burkett).
  • Dutch and German : variant of Burkhardt.
  • Thomas Burchard came from London, England, to MA in 1635 aboard the True Love, and by 1652 he was in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard.

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