When George Burgess was born in 1792, his father, John Burgess, was 38 and his mother, Mary Corne, was 35. He married Sarah Glover on 24 June 1813. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Old Barns, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1851.
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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.
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