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Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« on: Friday 27 March 09 05:16 UTC (UK) »


I see from FreeBMD that a girl with the exotic name Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne was born in Tynemouth RD in Q1 1844.  Does anyone already happen to know anything about her?

I suspect that the 1851 census would throw some light,  but I have failed there via FMP,  and have no An****ry home sub.

If anyone has tripped over this person in a PR (perhaps as a result of some unrelated search),  or can otherwise help,  I would be most grateful -- might save me a GRO fee!

Rol



ADDED 29 APRIL 2009:  On finally receiving this certificate I have just discovered that the FreeBMD index has mistranscribed the RD:  the correct reading is Plymouth!  For more,  go to the closing post in this topic -- though do also read the intervening thread,  where there is still much entertainment to be had.

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #1 on: Friday 27 March 09 06:13 UTC (UK) »

What is your interest in her apart from her name ?

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #2 on: Friday 27 March 09 12:01 UTC (UK) »

Name:     Cleopatra Burgoyne
Arrival Date:    29 Jul 1853
Age   7
departed    Nassau
the ships name   "Rover"
making for Baltimore
Born in England....It looks like she was in the Bahamas in 1851..
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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #3 on: Friday 27 March 09 12:15 UTC (UK) »

IGI has a submitted entry suggesting a marriage for her in Louth, Ireland to a William Power on 15 Jan 1867.  See www.familysearch.org.

NB As I'm sure you're aware, submitted entries on IGI should always be treated with great caution.

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Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #4 on: Friday 27 March 09 12:28 UTC (UK) »

There are also two submitted entries on IGI suggesting births of children to William Power and Cleopatra Cecilia nee Burgoyne, namely:

Susan Power: 6 Feb 1868 Belfast, Co. Antrim
John Power: 21 Dec 1871 Castlereagh, Co. Down


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Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #5 on: Friday 27 March 09 13:46 UTC (UK) »

The Burgoyne family departing Nassau on the schooner "Rover".
John Burgoyne age 35 gives his occupation as Gentleman
Cleo            "
John Thomas " age 3
Maria             " age 1..
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Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #6 on: Friday 27 March 09 17:32 UTC (UK) »

Very many thanks to all who have taken the trouble to help with this one.

My interest was aroused by the potential Irish connection.  Before posting,  I managed to obtain a look-up from someone very helpful who lives in Dundalk;  he was able to confirm that on 15 January 1867 there was a  wedding at St Peter's (Anglican) parish church,  Dundalk,  between William Power, full age,  bachelor, [??"twine"] merchant  (son of John Power,  merchant)  and Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne,  full age,  spinster,  no occupation (daughrer of John Burgoyne,  civil engineer). Avm228's IGI submitted refs evidently fit in well with this register entry.

The name Burgoyne seems to make no further appearances in that church's registers,  so I began to cast around for references elsewhere -- my assumption being that as a civil engineer Cleopatra's father might well have moved around from project tp project,  e.g. on railway construction work.

My only substantive "hit" during that endeavour was that 1844 Tyneside GRO birth reference,  so I wanted to try and determine whether the family were just "passing through" Tyneside because of temporary work requirements,  or whether I might get lucky and find that the area was their longer term home base,  with the chance that someone reading the Northumberland board would have come across them before.

Hepburn's passenger list refs are a very interesting find.  Despite Cleopatra's middle name not being recorded,  and her stated age being 7 instead of the expected 9,  the father's name match makes it all temptingly probable -- with the rarity of all the names weighing heavily in the scales.  (I'd much appreciate having the exact source citation.)

If the Nassau departure people are the right ones,  there would then be a possible birth in Northumberland for Cleopatra's father (providing he did not give as inaccurate an age for himself in Nassau as he did for her . . . ):  per IGI,  John Burgoyne,  s. John Burgoyne and Ann Ramsay,  bapt. Whittingham 4 April 1809 (born 28 February).  But how on earth does one prove that connection, without finding a census entry for him that discloses a place of birth?

The fact that Cleopatra later married in Ireland suggests that John was not emigrating when he sailed for Baltimore,  but was probably just working on another construction project.  But one wonders whether he and his family still left a BMD or census trail in North America.

Thanks once more for your collective assistance.  (But,  for now,  it still looks as though I may need to pay the GRO their £8!)  Still very interested if anyone else can offer any clues.


Rol

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #7 on: Friday 27 March 09 18:28 UTC (UK) »

Yikes - have GRO prices gone up then Huh

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #8 on: Friday 27 March 09 19:07 UTC (UK) »


Sorry to have alarmed you,  Fizzy.  Hope you are now safely sitting down.  The awful off-line truth,  in strict accuracy,  is even worse:  for those who insist on helping our needy public finances by ordering over the phone (e.g. to make special mailing arrangements),  fee's £8.50 . . .  (But maybe we ought to adjourn this thrilling sub-plot to another board!)

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #9 on: Friday 27 March 09 19:36 UTC (UK) »

For those who like their FH well spiced,  here's an interesting coda to the 1867 marriage: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-3062395&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5 .

[ADDED:  For some reason this link does not always go right through TNA's search screen to the underlying target document;  solution appears to be to close the new tab/window with the deficient info,  and immediately click on the link again;  then it works -- or at least,  it does for me (Mac + Firefox 3).]

Seems that Cleo "got about a bit" in more senses than one.


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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #10 on: Friday 27 March 09 20:51 UTC (UK) »



The Lloyds Weekly newspaper , 21 Jan 1877 edition , outlines court affiliation action ( seeking maintenance) by Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne against Samuel Bennett, otherwise known as John Burgoyne, for maintenance for a child... seeming the two had lived together as husband and wife for four years, after her husband, power, had abandoned her.

( I have access to British newspapers via my Newcastle Library membership.)  I searched on " cleopatra burgoyne"... I also searched on " cleopatra power" but just got a ship called "Cleopatra" that had a high horse " power" lol.

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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #11 on: Friday 27 March 09 22:17 UTC (UK) »

Oooo-er,
                 what does that mean??
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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 28 March 09 04:29 UTC (UK) »

Thank you very much,  Michael.  That was an inspired piece of sleuthing!  For some reason the possibility of finding anything on the Gale 19th c. Newspaper database never crossed my mind,  though I suppose it should have.

Those pieces in Lloyd's,  Reynolds's and Police News serve to remind one that the News of the World style of journalism has deep roots.  Collectively it is good colourful stuff,  yet also gratifyingly strong on hard dates for the birth of the illegitimate child,  William Power's time in San Francisco,  etc.

Well,  well.  Whatever next?


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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 28 March 09 08:37 UTC (UK) »

  Her father maybe listed in a Trade Directory somewhere ?

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Lowell, Ma, USA
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Westport Co Mayo. Northumberland
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Re: Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 28 March 09 11:32 UTC (UK) »

Do we have any idea who John's wife was?
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