Evening all
I have been trying to connect a couple of Burstons, and am getting more and more confused as time goes on.
My husbands grandmother had a child, I've never been able to find a marriage between her and the child's father. The child was born in Ireland and is still alive. I've not been able to find a death for the father, although he looks to have been born in 1911, so I'm not sure whether I can give his name
My husband has told me that a family friend was also a Burston before she married. Her father, one Clifford Burston, is on the 1911 census with father George (birth registered 1882 in Martley) a sister and mother who was transcribed as Maise. According to this they married in about 1906.
Looking at Clifford and sisters birth registrations on GRO gives a mothers maiden name of Harper. There's a 1906 marriage for a Mary Daisy Harper in 1906 in Martley Reg district, but the bridegroom is Roland Burston! Roland? Who on earth is Roland? Where did he come from? He appears to be George's brother b 1888, but I do not know why he has apparently metamorphosed into George by 1911. The family are in Gloucestershire at this point
Family search has a Roland Burston immigrating in Queensland, Australia in 1912. Did he do a runner for some reason and George stepped in?
And I still don't know where my husbands grandmothers child's father fits into the picture. They seemingly don't share a mother. There's a birth for this Burston in Newent, Gloucestershire in 1911,but mmn is different.
Both Clifford and t'other Burston are in the same household in Thornbury, Gloucestershire in 1939.
If anyone could help me tease this puzzle out, I'd be so thankful
Thanks
Lisa