This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAH.2ACIB/185 Message Board Post: The only information we have on my husband's Grandmother comes from an extract of birth. May Burney born 18/10/1877 at Gloucester, Massachusetts to William Burney, (Mariner) and Jessie Stewart - both born Scotland. Her parents died and she returned to Scotland to be raised by an elderly aunt (name unknown). Can any one tell me how I can trace a marriage for her parents or their deaths and what information would be recorded on the certificates.