Brief Life History of Robert Bob
When Robert Bob Burgess was born on 9 May 1829, in Alabama, United States, his father, William Burgess, was 31 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Easterwood, was 30. He married Judah Shippey before 1856, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ethelsville, Pickens, Alabama, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 6 Ethelville, Pickens, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 7 June 1907, in McShan, Pickens, Alabama, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in McShan, Pickens, Alabama, United States.
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- Robert Burgess, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Burgess - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Robert Burgess
- Robert Bob Burgess, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1843
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Pickens, Alabama, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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