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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: alison300 on Monday 24 March 25 20:08 GMT (UK)
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I'm struggling to read the two attached files relating to Alexander Burniston, RN.
Can anyone help? Looks like he enlisted in 1856 (and died 1874) but that's all I can work out.
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"Co... Close states he is an indifferent navigator, & not at all to be trusted as a pilot"
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Some newspaper clips might help:
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/5cf7aefb-c84d-4f5a-a7c6-f61d3d3f2f06
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/32397aaf-6b08-4fa3-8525-e9d42ed20f7b
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/766e9d71-3a74-4ff2-bbea-b60e63508c5d
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Wow that's interesting - thank you.
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Appointed Second Master in 1848:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7608701
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Navy_List/JvDUiHBBJMAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22alexander+raven+burniston%22&pg=RA2-PA72&printsec=frontcover
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My attempt at the last three lines:
25 Nov 1856 Trident – 28 April 1857 Invalided? re establishment of health
[Commander?] Close states that he is an indifferent navigator, & not at all to be trusted as a Pilot.
June 1858 Racer? ... Sick – 23 March 1860 Placed on Reserved List.
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Thank you ShaunJ - this is brilliant.
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Thanks Alan - I'm curious as to how he was injured - will have to find out what was going on at that time.
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FindMyPast
Buried 31 Oct 1874, Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, age 47, address 3 Mutley Plain, Plymouth,
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In agreement with being on the Reserved List, here he is 'on the beach' in the 1861 census.
He is a lodger at 41 Duke Street, Devonport where the head of household is Edward Leatherby a smith at the navy dockyard:
Alexander Burniston, lodger, unmarried, 34, Master RN Half Pay, Ireland. Kingston, Dublin
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There is a record on An***y of him becoming a freemason in Malta in February 1856. Record has him age 28, RN, Master.
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The other record available for Alexand Raven Burniston, which you forgot to attach, and referred to in reply #4 is:
Mr Alexr. R Burniston [Master's Assistant scored out] 2nd Master 3 October 1850
?? ?? College (22.9.50) 6 January 1853 Trinity House
For? – 4 Aug 18?? Victory – ?? Feb 48/9? Sappho and? 16 Feb 1852 [more dates] – Paid off
March 1853 Valorous ... 10 May 1855 ?? ... 28 July 1855 Hannibal
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following on from the previous two posts which imply that he was in Malta in early 1856 aboard Hannibal
LLoyd's List 25th October 1856
Portsmouth, 24th October 1856, HMS Hannibal arrived from Malta
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Some more –first two lines– from the later record (the one attached to the OP)
Hannibal 10th May 1856 promoted for War Service. 27 Aug? 1856 Appointed by
Sir? H? Stewart ?? & Master of Hannibal for ?? of Naval Yard & to Hospital?
from the WP entry for Sir Houston Stewart:
Stewart became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard, with his flag in the fifth-rate HMS Ceylon, in April 1853 and second-in-command in the Black Sea, with his flag in the second-rate HMS Hannibal in January 1855. He took part in the Siege of Sevastopol in Winter 1854 and commanded the fleet at the capture of Kinburn in October 1855 during the Crimean War. For his services in the war, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 5 July 1855, appointed to the French Legion of Honour, 2nd Class on 30 April 1857 and awarded the Turkish Order of the Medjidie, 1st Class on 2 March 1858.