Dear listers
I am wondering whether any of you who may have MIs for Kirkintilloch and Cumbarnauld may be able to assist me with my dilema.
Can somebody please check the MIs for Kirkintilloch or Cumbernauld for a David Burniston, Burns, or variant thereof who died between about 1853 and 1858?
My ancestor David BURNISTON brought his family, including wife Mary RAMSAY and children William, Martha, Jane, John, Eliza and Betsey, to the Cumbernauld area in the late 1840s presumably to excape the Irish famine. They had further children Mary (born Cumbernauld), Samuel and David (born Kirkintilloch). The appear in the 1851 census living at Newhouse Deerdyke, Kirkintilloch (later simply Deerdyke) which is a farm situated next to (and beneath!) the big Irn Bru factory in Cumbernauld.
David however vanishes with no trace of a death record before 1858. His widow Mary Burniston of Deerdyke appears in the Poor Relief minutes between 1858 and the early 1860s.
I am assuming that David died defore 1855 when registration was compulsory. His youngest child David was born in no earlier than late 1853 or early 1854.
The family changed their name from Burniston (also spelled Burneston, Burnistone) to "Burns" in the early 1860s and some family members are also recorded as Burnes and Burnis during this progression.
Can anybody please shed some light on any burial records that may be available for David Burns/Burniston and his children?
Many thanks for any assistance you can give,
Adrian Burns
Australia
