Burget History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France
Ireland

Early Origins of the Burget family

The surname Burget was first found in Herefordshire where they held a family seat at Burghill, a parish, in the hundred of Grimsworth. 1 They later acquired estates at Thinghill.

However, their descent can be traced by to the Domesday Book, 2 where conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands and village of Burghill, held by Alfred of Marlborough who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086. Burgill held a mill and 25 eel ponds.

Early History of the Burget family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Burget research. Another 118 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1140, 1159, 1172, 1442, 1510, 1545, 1572, 1600, 1641, 1645, 1646 and 1665 are included under the topic Early Burget History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Burget Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Burghill, Burgehill, Burghil, Burghall, Burghal, Burkhill, Birkhill, Burkell, Berghill, Berghil, Bergle, Burgle and many more.

Early Notables of the Burget family

Robert Burhill or Burghill (1572-1641), English divine, born at Dymock, Gloucestershire, descended from the Burghills of Thinghill, Herefordshire. 3 Henry Burkhead (fl. 1645), was an English dramatist, a merchant of Bristol and author of a tragedy, 'Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery,' which was never acted, and probably was not written for the stage. It was published at Kilkenny in 1646, on...
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Migration of the Burget family to Ireland

Some of the Burget family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Burget migration to the United States +

Burget Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Jacob Burget, who arrived in Ohio in 1824 4
I Burget, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851 4
Havier Burget, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1853 4

Sources +

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)