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Hi alpinecottage

Being a 'left footer' myself I am fully aware of confirmation names but I've never come across one being used instead of the first Christian name.  My Thomas Burnett was reasonably well educated and he signed his marriage certificate, so it's unlikely that he would not pick up an error in his daughter's baptism record.  It is of course possible that the record was entered into the register after the event and the parish priest made a pigs ear of it!  As you say, a copy of the birth certificate might throw some light on it.

It's also possible that Thomas and Elizabeth moved to Liverpool after their marriage (that's where they sailed from for Australia).  I haven't found a likely birth registration yet - but I'll keep looking.

Wilbur

 

Hi

Does anyone have easy access to the baptism registers of St. Wilfrid's RC, Hulme, Manchester?

I am looking for details of the baptism of a Mary Jane BURNETT, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth BURNETT, who married at St. Wilfrid's on 15 Jun 1851.  Mary Jane's birth was registered at Chorlton during the June quarter 1852.

Thanks in anticipation

Wilbur

My thanks to "jorose", "manmack", "Valda" and "Liverpool Annie" for your responses to my posting.

I can only give a little more detail about my man.  His name was Thomas BURNETT he was born in Coxwold, Yorkshire in 1787. He must have joined the Army aged 17 or 18 because, having served 15yrs according to family tradition, he was back home by 1819; when the first of three children with his wife named Hannah was born at Coxwold.  Hannah died as a result of complications with the third birth and Thomas re-married, his second wife was Elizabeth KIRBY.  Thomas was now working as a stonemason - his father and at least two of his brothers were stonemasons.  In 1853 Thomas emigrated to America with his family and he has many descendants still living there today.

It is *possible* that Thomas married first wife Hannah in India - though I have not been able to find the marriage in any of the oversees indexes I have consulted.

Thanks for the details of BURNETT service records at the NA.  In fact I had already searched the NA catalogue and obtained copies of the service records for all BURNETTs I found - Thomas was not one of them.  I understood that not all records had been indexed and that records were filed by regiment - so that I would need to know which one Thomas was in.

I was very interested to learn that the East India Company ran an army in India - thanks for the information about the regiments involved.  I should know this but where are the East India Comany records held?

Thanks again for taking the time to reply.

Bill Burnett

   

I've been involved in a personal one-name-study of the surname BURNETT and variants in Yorkshire for more than 10yrs and have built up a large database of information.  I would be pleased to share this information and to compare notes with anyone researching BURNETT ancestors who had their origins in Yorkshire.

Bill Burnett