Hi Peter, There was someone some years ago who was researching the Burney family as I did some checks etc for them. I think they were from Canada or the States I got hold of a copy of a thesis written by someone in Lee-on-solent about the family an sent it to them. There was a copy at Portsmouth University as this was how I found out about its existence. It was the University who put me in touch with the author. Hope this helps, good luck with your research. regards Derek Ive Gosport --- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Gawn" <pgawn@dccnet.com> To: <eng-ham-portsmouth-gosport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:43 PM Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] BURNEY (1851 Census) > Thanks Jenny for your help. > I had no luck with Ancestry or other on-line look-ups. > I'm not related to the Burney family. > I'm researching the Academy, which the family owned for three generations, > and > want to determine what role if any Charles played in running it. > I have enough information about his siblings but Charles has eluded both > me > and previous researchers. > As to the Charles "of Brockhurst" who died June 13 1847 I have a > handwritten > note that he was aged 79. i.e. born 1768, too soon for the one I'm looking > for. > Unfortunately I don't have the source for this information. At my last > upgrade I lost the Burney family data & can't restore it from the backup > disk because Vista won't accept backups from my version of Family Tree > Maker. O, the joys of technology. I expect a boffin could figure it out > but > I can't. > That's why I was hoping that he might just show up in the 1851 Census. > Thanks again, > Peter. > >> Peter Gawn wrote >>>Does anyone have access to the 1851 Census for Alverstoke/Gosport? >>> >>>I am looking for Charles BURNEY probably born Gosport Feb 21 1796 (?) >>>therefore aged about 55 in 1851. He married Sarah MURRAY in Alverstoke >>>(?) May 29 1826 - no other information about her. The only child I know >>>of, Augusta, was buried in Alverstoke July 29 1828 aged 13 months. >>>Sarah may have died in Alverstoke in 1847. You'll see from the question >>>marks and "maybes" why one writer entitled his article "The elusive >>>Burneys". >> >> I've had a look on Ancestry and can't find any likely suspect, although >> I did see his brothers and sister and families. >> >> Perhaps someone else will have better luck. >> >> Is he definitely not the Charles Burney who died in Alverstoke RD in Jun >> Q 1847? >> -- >> Jenny M Benson > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >