Brief Life History of Sarah Burchard
When Sarah Burchard Burgess was born on 25 February 1877, in Glen Cove, Nassau, New York, United States, her father, William Ablyn Burgess, was 55 and her mother, Anne White, was 31. She married William H Willis on 10 June 1912, in Kings, New York, United States. She lived in Oyster Bay, Queens, New York, United States in 1880 and Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 3 July 1957, at the age of 80.
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- Sarah B Burgess, "United States Census, 1900"
- Sarah Burchard Burgess, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Sarah Buschard Burgess, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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