When Isabella M Burgess was born about 1808, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Jonathan Milton Burgess, was 30 and her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Blackstock, was 24. She married Thomas C Dabbs on 23 July 1835, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died after 1854, in Alabama, United States, and was buried in Scottsboro, Jackson, Alabama, United States.
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Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
English: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, burgis, borgeis ‘inhabitant of a borough’ (strictly one possessing full municipal rights), ‘freeman of a borough’. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger .
Americanized form of French Bourgeois .
History: Thomas Burgess came from England to MA c. 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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