Surname Definition: See Family Crest below.

Origins: Sussex, England AND Co.Wexford, Ireland.

Alternate Spellings: BURGESS, BURGEIS, BURGHERSH, BURGES, BURGESSE, BURGAR, BERGISS, BERGESS, BARGESS, BARGEIS, BERGEUS, BURGEUS, BURGEUSS, BURYS, and others.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: BERGESON, BERGHUIS, BORGESON, BOURGEOIS, BOURGUIGNON, BRIGUGLIO, BROCKHUS, BROOKES, BROSIUS, BRZEZINSKI, BURGAJL, BURGES, BURGESS, BURKHISER, BURROUGHS, BURZYCKI.

Other Resources

• Family Crest
• BURGESS Family Genealogy Forum
• More than 190,000 records for BURGESS at RootsWeb's World Connect Project
• Rootsweb Messageboards
• Personal Websites at RootsWeb - BURGESS
• More than 12,000 entries for BURGESS at TribalPages Family Tree Websites
• More than 21,000 USA Death Records for BURGESS at TribalPages
• More than 13,000 records for BURGESS at GeneaNet
• More than 44,000 records for BURGESS at GenCircles
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia – click on ‘words’ and ‘Tell me about’ your surname
• Search Wikipedia – the free encyclopaedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• AncientFaces – Family Treasures
• Linkpendium BURGESS surname worldwide - many links
• FamilyTreeDNA - the largest DNA database in the world
• Over 1,000 records in the Debt of Honour Roll for BURGESS at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• CertificateSharing – free sharing of Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Certificates in English language only
• Access Genealogy’s Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania search engine
• Over 1,300 records for BURGESS at The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
• 30 records for BURGESS within the Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Over 2,600 records for BURGESS within the National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Over 1,400 records for BURGESS within the Archives of New Zealand
• Up to 14 biographies for BURGESS within the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker
• Search Encyclopaedia Titanica – Titanic Passenger and Crew Research
• BURGESS Family Genealogy Project
• Sullivan/Burgess Family Tree

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