Being a Genealogical History of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia,
His Son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia,
With the Descendants in the Male Line of Edward's Sons:
Garner Burgess of Fauquier County, Virginia
William Burgess of Stafford County, Virginia
Edward Burgess, Jr. of Fauquier County, Virginia
Moses Burgess of Orange County, Virginia
Reuben Burgess of Rowan (later Davie) County, North Carolina
Second Edition
Revised and Expanded
by Michael Burgess
with Mary Wickizer Burgess
This new version of a standard genealogy has been
greatly expanded from the 1983 edition, both in numbers of individuals
covered and in total coverage of the family; it has also been completely
reorganized into a new format that enables even the most casual reader
easily to grasp the relationships between Burgess cousins and their
ancestors. The Second Edition includes roughly 4,700 individuals
born with the name Burgess, and at least another 21,000 persons
connected to the family as spouses or descendants of Burgess women.
The volume contains over 700 pages of text, is illustrated with
photographs of prominent family members, and includes detailed,
every-name indexes of every person mentioned, plus a half dozen
genealogical tables.
This particular Burgess family is
one of the oldest and largest in the United States, comprising perhaps 2
or 3% of all those named Burgess in the country. The earliest
known progenitors are William Burgess (who died 1712) of Richmond (later
King George) County, Virginia, his son, Edward Burgess (1699?-1759) of
Stafford and King George Counties, Virginia, and Edward's five sons:
Garner (1726?-1790), William (1732?-1780), Edward Jr. (1739-1819), Moses
(1742-1796), and Reuben (1745-1820), these latter being the ancestors of
the five major family branches. The descendants of these early
tobacco planters and farmers have spread throughout every segment of
American and Canadian society, and include doctors, lawyers, farmers,
tradesmen, teachers, truck drivers, small business owners, one writer,
and virtually every other occupation imaginable. One Burgess
researcher has called this book the "best genealogy that I have
ever seen."
Burgess and Wickizer
1994 ¨ 728 pages ¨
8.5 x 11"
LC 87-6316 ¨ ISBN 0-89370-479-2
Paperbound $60
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