I've been here before with my Burris family. Found as Burroughs in 1841 census. John Burris 1804-1848 is still my 'brickwall'. However something interesting turned up in Ancestry.com. A marriage banns entry for 1841 St. Martins in the Fields, London William Edward Burris married Martha Lama. Nothing was found concerning the births of these two people. William lived in Long Acre, London as did my g-grandfather John Burris. I wondered 'could they be brothers '? By further search I found that William and Martha Burris had emigrated to USA and were in the 1850 Oregon census from which I got their ages and birth dates, William 42 and Martha 28. Now for the interesting bit. I found a Ērisp's marriage licence issued in 1841. William was a bachelor but Martha was a widow and a minor. I can't read much the handwritten licence apart from her father being dead. The marriage banns say her father was William Lama but that must be false. Can anyone throw some light on this ?
William's father was John. So I have another g-g-grandfather from the 1700's but I don't know where from.
