Hi Moatville -- and other Cleo-Hunters,
Many thanks for posting that! It has administered a necessary prod in my ribs, because I have been feeling rather guilty for not finding time to update the thread since last June, when I first spotted the Ohio BMD info added to the LDS site -- and then similar info on Ancestry.com, plus some Public Family Tree matches that did not seem to be there when this chase started. I then went digging in the censuses on both sides of the Atlantic, where my fingerprints are on quite a few transcription corrections designed to put the spot light on how the indexers had previously thrown us off her trail. If you have been digging into all this too, you have probably seen and relished one of their classics: Cleopatra with her new husband in the UK 1881 census for Croydon, indexed as "Aeopaha"! But the covering of her tracks there was a joint effort, because the enumerator went and entered her husband as "Enerer"; and Cleo had her illegitimate son put down as a "visitor" and reversed his GRO registered forenames to turn him into James S Bennett, not Samuel James Bennett. It turns out that Cleo and her son sailed for the New World from Glasgow on 24 Nov. 1885.
I was glad to discover that the Burgoyne tradition of favouring imperial forenames did not die out, given that Cleopatra in this case went for an Augustus . . . But the end of the story was quite sad, as you have also probably seen -- they both died at Cleveland, Ohio, still in their sixties and 10 days apart, in February 1911 (so one suspects some epidemic disease, or even an accident). And poor James Enever né Samuel Bennett turns out to have been blind, per US draft exemption card for WW1 and the census, and had to earn what living he could as a piano tuner. He died childless on 11 Feb. 1943, also at Cleveland, and it looks as though Augustus and Cleo also produced no surviving children; so he had no half-siblings from that union, and with his death the Burgoyne illegitimate line came to an end.
Still, it is a great thing to have discovered what became of her -- I had thought for quite a while that she was going to be successful in giving us all the slip!
Well done for following down what happened to Cleo's children by her first husband, William Power (though that perhaps is how your attention was first attracted to this matter, and you were "coming up the other way"?). I had been keeping that part of the tale off-stage, until we had finally wrapped up what became of Cleo herself; I feared that all the baronetcy stuff would prove quite a distraction and draw attention away from the person who I thought should be the thread's leading lady!
It is an irony that after all her tribulations, Cleo's son John Cecil Power and his brother became very rich as London property developers. Their company was the driving force behind the building of Kingsway. As you say, John went into parliament in the Conservative interest and was granted a baronetcy (which continues).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the write-up in Burke's P&B is -- shall we say -- a little reticent on the subject of Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne. At some point someone must have decided that "Cleopatra" was a trifle too distinctive, so her name appears as Cecilia only, her father is labelled with the questionable prefix "Col" -- and she is stated to have left the scene very permanently in 1874, perhaps in consequence of those uncomfortable reports in the newspapers. Here is her para in the article on Power of Newlands, Baronets:
WILLIAM TAYLOR POWER, of Eldon House, Co. Down: m Cecilia (d 1874). dau of Col John Burgoyne, and d 29 Nov 1918, leaving:
1 Frederick Joseph: b 21 April 1869; d 24 July 1936
2 Sir John Cecil Power, 1st Bt (UK), so cr 1 Feb 1924, b 21 Dec 1870; MP (C) Wimbledon Oct 1924-June 1945 ... and d 5 June 1950
Genealogy can be full of surprises . . .
Rol
