When Lucy Burgess was born on 30 March 1812, in Cazenovia, Cazenovia, Madison, New York, United States, her father, Levi Burges Cotton, was 40 and her mother, Ruth Sabin, was 34. She married Fordyce Card on 21 March 1842, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Parish, Parish, Oswego, New York, United States in 1875 and West Monroe, Oswego, New York, United States in 1880. She died on 3 January 1900, at the age of 87, and was buried in West Monroe, Oswego, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1816: Oswego, New York, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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