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Bircumshaw Family History

Variants of the name Bircumshaw include Birkenshaw, Burtenshaw, Bertenshaw and Birchenshaw. This is a locality name meaning 'of Birkenshaw', from a chapelry found in the parish of Birstall, County Yorkshire. This name is usually of English descent. In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century.

A Sept is an ancient form of a Clan and is a group of people whose ancestors all bore the same surname and inhabited the same locality.