Burgett Family History
- Burgett Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a castle or city gate, Middle English burgate, or a habitational name from a place named Burgate, from Old English burh-geat with the same meaning, examples of which are found in Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 128,884 Historical Documents with Burgett on Ancestry
- 36,677 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,772 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,945 Military Records
- 1,020 Immigration Records
- 65,470 Member Trees
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Number of Burgett families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Burgett census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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