THE HOUSE OF THE BURGESSES

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 ¨ xx + 708 pages ¨ 8.5 x 11"
LC 87-6316 ¨ ISBN 0-89370-479-2
Paperbound $60

Facsimile Reprint Edition January 2010

_Wildside Press_

xx + 708 pages * 8.5 x 11"
ISBN 978-0-89730-479-7
Paperbound $49.99