(1) This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Byram,' a township in the parish of Brotherton, Yorkshire, formerly Byrom ('Byrom,' 1379. Poll Tax of Yorkshire).

Roger de Birun, Yorkshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Ralph de Birun, Lincolnshire, ibid.

Hugh de Byron, Nottinghamshire, ibid.

Johannes de Byrom, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

The following three entries concern individuals in the immediate neighbourhood of Byrom:

Elena de Byrom (Byrom), 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Roger de Birne (Monk Fryston), 1379: ibid.

Thomas de Byrne (Selby), 1379: ibid.

(a) Local, 'of Byrom,' an estate (possibly once a manor) in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire All the Lancashire Byroms hail from this spot. There is clear evidence that the four following entries concern one individual:

John de Byrum, John de Byrun, John de Byrnn, John Byrn, Lancashire, 20 Edward.

John Byrom, the Manchester Jacobite and famous epigrammatist, was a descendant.

'Henry Byrome, of Byrome, died seised of the majors of Parre and Byrome,' 1614: Baines' Lancashire.

John Byrom, of Byrom, in the parish of Winwick, 1593: Wills at Chester.

George Byrom of Salford, 1558: ibid.

1604. George Byrom, or Byrame, Lancashire: Register of the University of Oxford.

(Anglo-French-Teut.) belonging to Buron (Calvados) = the Cottage, Villa [Old French bu(i)ron, diminutive of bur, Teutonic búr, cottage, &c.] Erneis de Burun.—Testa de Nevill.

Hugh de Byron.—Hundred Rolls Ralph de Buron, at the time of the (Domesday) Survey, held divers manors in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.—Burke’s Peerage, &c.

Et iroit si avant en ces quatre mestiers, qu’il n’y demeureroit maison ni buiron.— Chroniques de Froissart (ed. Ruchon), ii. c. 231.

(A.Fr,-Latin) Of Reddish or Dark- Brown Complexion [O.Fr, bu(i)ron, diminutive of bu(i)re, reddish, dark brown; Latin burr-us] Un Sarazin de lignage buiron.—Roncisvals, p. 120; Godefroy.

(English) confused with Byrom, q.v. (Celtic and Teutonic) confused with Byrne, q.v.

Used occasionally as a synonym of O’Beirne, Birrane and Byrne, q.v. IF 305*

(English) Descendant of Byron (from the cottage); one who came from Byram (tumulus or cowshed), in Yorkshire.

In Scotland, a topographical expression, implying the high part of a farm where young sheep are summered-or dry heathy pasture for weanlings. Celt, bryn, a hill. Jamieson. The Irish family of O'Byrne claim from Hermon, the youngest son of Milesius. B.L.G.

The poet's ancestors were of unquestioned Norman origin. Ernisius de Burun held 32 lordships in Yorkshire, and Ralph de Burun, 13 in Notts and Derby, at the compilation of Domesday. Kelham. Others derive the name and family from the town of Biron in Guienne.

(French.) Local. Originally Be Biron, from the town of Biron, in the province of Guienne, France.

Or De Buron, from Beuron, near Mantes, Normandy, which seems to have been the appanage of a younger branch of the Tessons. A brother probably of Ralph Tesson (see Percy) was Lord of Beuron, and had Ernegis and Ralph de Buron, who in 1086 held considerable baronies in England, the former in York and Lincoln, the latter in Derby and Notts. It appears that the whole of this in the next generation vested in Ralph Tesson (heir of one of the brothers), who in 1130 paid a fine for estates in the four counties (Rot. Pip.). In 1165 Roger de Burun, his son, returned his barony in Notts as 10 fees. Hugh de B. occurs later, whose son Roger forfeited his barony t. John, who granted it to William Briwere. Sir Richard Byron, descended from this baron, m., t. Henry IV., the dau. and heir of Colwick of Notts; and from him descended Lord Byron the poet, and the Barons Byron.

From Biron; a location name in Guienne, France. in the Domesday Book, de Burun, tenant in chief. Robert de Burun in Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, King John Biroune in Roll of Battell Abbey.

The Byrons belong to a very ancient and distinguished family of Nottingham, ennobled by James I.; and, as we also learn from Deering, Sir John Byron was constable of Nottingham castle in the reign of Henry VIII. Byron is still a Nottingham name. In 1698 there were several freeholders of the name of Byron in the South Clay division of the county (Harl.). As far back as the reign of Edward I. there was a Hugh de Byron in Notts; but at that time the name was also to be found, as Byrun and Birun, in the neighbouring counties of York, Lincoln, and Norfolk, and as Biron in Oxfordshire (H. R.).