When Milton Leo Burgess was born on 9 September 1891, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, his father, Horace Conrad Liggett Burgess, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Florilla Cook, was 33. He married Hazel Nelson on 13 April 1919, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1920 and lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Woolford, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 11 September 1964, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Magrath Cemetery, Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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