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Hi, thanks for taking the time to reply.  My Isaac died in Lewes, East Sussex and I have  his death certificate.  I am more interested now in his birth and marriage to Maria so maybe I will strike lucky as time progresses.

Kind regards
Linda   

Roy, thanks for taking the time to reply to me.  i did wonder if my Isaac Burrell was connected to the wealthy Burrells, but i have a hunch he is not.  he may be part of the Burrell family from Sussex who you mention, but perhaps from the poorer side of the family! I can't somehow see a rich Burrell family member joining the army (I don't think he had a high rank - i am waiting for his army records to come through).  However, maybe i shall find some more on him sometime.  Your ancestor, the butler, sounds interesting.
Linda
   

Can anyone help me out with Washington, West Sussex. I have an ancestor, Isaac Burrell, who was born there but I wondered which church he would have been baptised in?  He was born in c1777.   

Many thanks for your reply, so quickly.  Maria's husband was - as she called him in the 1851 census after he died - a soldier / turnkey at Lewes House of Correction.  On the 1841 he states that he was born in Lewes but I can't find him at all.  However, the dates you mention do add up to my Maria and Isaac's family, i.e. first child, Eliza, my Gt3 grandmother, was born 1828.  However the census of 1841 gives Isaac as being born in 1787. 

thanks for the hint about Gent (Ghent) / Gant and the link between the soldier Thomas Gent in Sussex.  I shall of course further this line.  Although I sort of presumed Maria might have been a British subject by marriage with her first name. 

I am fairly novice at tracing and don't have much time either so have dabbled in the army history and I think came across Isaac Burrell in the 17th Dragoons, but sadly got no further with this.  I badly need to go to the archives in person but working full time, don't get much time to get there.

Many thanks again for your help and if you come across anything else interesting, perhaps you would kindly let me know.  You've given me much food for thought and research!
     

Thank you very much for your reply.  I'll have a go.