BURGOYNE

(origin: Local) From Bourgogne, now Burgundy, an old province of France. A name given to a native of that province.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BURGOYNE. A native of Burgundy. Tlie date of this family's settlement in England is uncertain. They have a tradition of having been in co. Bedford from temjj. John, (Courthoiie's Debrett's Baronetage) ; but Lysons asserts that tliey did not possess lauds in that shire till about 1465, having resided at a more remote date in CO. Cambridge. If this be so, we must not accept as geuuine a certain rhyming grant, by which John of Gaunt assigns to a member of the familj' the lands of Sutton and Pottou in the former county : —

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.