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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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