I have a fairly tidy picture of my Burrow ancestors:
Edward Burrow 1773-1850, owned Well Farm in Little Witley from 1824 until his death.
His son Thomas Burrow 1818-1896 took over the farm as well as managed his own farm at Hazel House near Shrawley. He sold his father's farm in 1857 and lost the Hazel House Farm to bankruptcy in 1858. He packed up and shipped to NZ with his family in 1859. I have all the data I need for Edward's family and Thomas's family.
All very neat. But today I discovered there is one extra Burrow at Well Farm who doesn't fit into the family. An 1855 newspaper column announces the wedding of Thomas Burrow "of Well Farm, Little Witley" to Lucy Dudley.
Census data quickly revealed that this Thomas Burrow was born in Claines in 1828 and I have obtained parents Thomas Burrow and Jane Bett, who married in Claines in 1825. It looks like they both died very soon after the birth of their first and only child. Young Thomas is with one unrelated family in 1841 and then another in 1851 and of course is with my Burrow people on the farm by 1855.
>>> I would rather like to know how he connects to my Burrow ancestors. Can anyone help link him back to the old man, Edward Burrow? Perhaps Edward is young Thomas's uncle or grand-uncle?
This is a very awkward time in history as it predates the census years and the civil BMD registers.
Young Thomas's parents, Thomas snr and Jane Bett would likely have been born 1800-1805 in or near Claines, Ombersley, Shrawley.
Thanks for your help.
-DC