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