When Raymond Paul Burgess was born on 3 April 1908, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Napoleon Paul Bourget, was 42 and his mother, Marie Alice Regina Leclerc, was 34. He married Elizabeth H Mecham on 24 November 1932. He lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1910. He died on 1 April 1968, at the age of 59.
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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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