When Margaret Reynold Burgess was born on 10 October 1880, in Kempt Shore, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Robert Milton Burgess, was 25 and her mother, Edith Florence Reynolds, was 22. She lived in Kempt, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901 and Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1930. In 1930, at the age of 49, her occupation is listed as practical nurse - sanitarium in Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey, United States. She died in 1936, in Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 56, and was buried in Avon View Cemetery, Kempt Shore, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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.
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