Brief Life History of Lemira Elsie
Lemira Elsie Burgess was born in 1791, in Putnam, Washington, New York, United States. She married James Odell in 1811, in Warren, New York, United States. She died on 28 March 1877, in Lake George, Lake George, Warren, New York, United States, at the age of 86.
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1791–1877 Female
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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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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