Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Burgess was born on 31 January 1864, in Canada, her father, Cornelius John Burgis, was 52 and her mother, Louisa Augusta Grove, was 37. She married John B. Vance on 8 March 1888, in Caro, Tuscola, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Brock, Durham, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 25 July 1889, in Novesta Township, Tuscola, Michigan, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Novesta Township, Tuscola, Michigan, United States.
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- Emily Burges in household of Coneleus Burges, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Emily Burgis, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Emily Vance, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1869
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
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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