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GB-2014-WSA-04159 · Person · ca. 1714-1805

BURMAN, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1722/3; left 1725; of Edwardstone House, Suffolk.; d. 15 Feb 1805 (will proved PCC 19 Feb 1805, as of Edwardstone].

Burman, Montague, 1727-1794
GB-2014-WSA-04160 · Person · 1727-1794

BURMAN, MONTAGUE, brother of Thomas Burman (qv); bapt. 22 Apr 1727; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1741 (Heath's); Min. Can. 1743; left 1744; d. 9 Dec 1793 (will proved PCC 4 Feb 1794, as of St. Luke, Middlesex, Christian name given as Montagu).

Burman, Thomas, 1708-1784
GB-2014-WSA-04161 · Person · 1708-1784

BURMAN, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Burman, London and Beaulieu, Hants., and Ann, dau. of Rev. Henry Adams; bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 26 Mar 1708 (IGI); adm. Jan 1720/1; KS (aged 14) 1722; left 1726; adm. Middle Temple 4 May 1723; master, Free School, Christchurch, Hants.; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 25 May 1755, priest (Winchester) Jun 1756; Curate, Christchurch, Hants., 1756; Rector of Dibden, Hants., from Apr 1758; m. 26 May 1757 Susannah Good (IGI); d. 24 Jan 1784.

Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812
GB-2014-WSA-00366 · Person · 1732-1812

BURNABY, ANDREW, eldest son of Rev. Andrew Burnaby, Brampton Manor House, Hunts., Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Asfordby, Leics., and Hannah, dau. of George Beaumont, Darton, Yorks.; b. 16 Aug 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Preston's); Min. Can. 1747; KS 1748; left 1748; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Mar 1749/50, matr. 1750; BA 1754; MA 1757; DD 1776; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1755, priest 19 Sep 1756 (both Lincoln); travelled in North America 1759-60; Chaplain at Leghorn, 1762-7; Vicar of Greenwich, Kent, from 1769; Archdeacon of Leicester from 25 Jan 1786; author, Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America, 1775, A Jounal of a Tour in Corsica in the Year 1766, 1804, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1770 Anna, dau. of John Edwyn, Baggrave Hall, Leics.; d. 9 Mar 1812. DNB.

Burnby, William, 1774-1807
GB-2014-WSA-04162 · Person · 1774-1807

BURNBY, WILLIAM, son of John Burnby, Canterbury, Kent, solicitor, and Mary, dau. of Lieut. Thomas Woolley Pickering, Canterbury, Kent; bapt. 16 Jun 1774; adm. 31 Jul 1786; practised as an attorney in Canterbury; d. 1806 (will proved PCC 6 Mar 1807).

GB-2014-WSA-04163 · Person · 1835-?

BURNE, FREVILL LAMBTON, son of Capt. William Hunter Burne, and Caroline Jane, youngest dau. of Robert Allan, Newbottle, co. Durham; b. 20 Dec 1835; adm. Mar 1850 (Rigaud's).

Burnett, Matthew, ca. 1721-?
GB-2014-WSA-04164 · Person · ca. 1721-?

BURNETT, MATTHEW, son of Matthew Burnett, St. Margaret, Westminster, cheesemonger; b.; adm. Mar 1734/5; KS (aged 14) 1739; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1743, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744, matr. 1743/4; BA 1746/7; an Usher at the School Sep 1747 - Dec 1759 (Second Usher Jun 1748); ordained deacon (Rochester) 18 Dec 1757; Recor of Weston, Suffolk [check].

GB-2014-WSA-04166 · Person · 1678-1749

BURNEY (formerly MACBURNEY), JAMES, son of James Macburney, Great Hanwood, Shropshire, and of the Privy Garden, Whitehall, land steward to Earl of Ashburnham, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Nehemiah Evance, Great Hanwood, Shropshire; b. 23 May 1678; at school under Busby (D’Arblay, Memoirs of Dr Burney, 1832, i, xii-xiv); a pupil of the painter Michael Dahl; living at Coton Hill, near Shrewsbury, 1726, but shortly afterwards went to Chester, where he set up as a portrait painter and a teacher of drawing; m. 1st, Rebecca Ellis, actress at Goodman’s Fields Theatre; m. 2nd, 6 May 1721, Ann Cooper, heiress and celebrated beauty; d. Jan 1749.