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Hello Knight1
Knight 1
Thanks for your reply. I'd be interested in what you know about Mathew Burgess. I have found a Samuel Burgess born in Frome about 1784 as a travelling salesman down in somewhere like Southampton.
I don't think my Samuel is the one born in 1784. I believe mine was deffinatly 1776, but there doesn't appear to be any records.
Incidentally, my William Burgess, Samuel's son,  who was married to Georgianna Setchell in London in 1839, I cannot find any of them in the 1861 census. They are in the 1851 and I know Wiliiam died in 1866. His wife and daughters re appear in 1871. Maybe If the 1861 census turned up, it would have some more answers.

Hi Trish,

Thanks for the info. I have seen the Samuel born in 1785 to a Matthew, but I don't think he is mine as his occupation is different.

I have been following the hunch that the Samuel married to sussannah Allen might be the right one. The only reason being The Samuel is born at the right time and I have discovered that her father Thomas Allen was also a carmaker by trade. Other than finding their marriage in 1795 and a couple of daughters born to those names, I cannot find any trace of William born in Frome to a Samuel.
He gives his fathers name and occupation on his marriage certificate. The only clue I have to being born in Frome and his age is the 1851 census. By then he was living in London?

On the death certificate it says the informant is a Harriet Hewitt, but it gives Samuels occupation as a foreman.

Thank you for your help,

Dorsyb

Hi,

My family name is Burgess, and we come from a long line of Londoners, however, I have discovered my gt gt gt grandfather was Samuel Burgess a card maker from Frome. I know my gt gt grandfather William, his son was also born in Frome, but married in London in 1839.
My thing is, William was born in about 1815, I cannot find a birth for him in Frome to a father Samuel. I believe I have found Samuel in the 1841 census, and also a death certificate in 1844, but I cannot find a parish record for him either. William became a carpenter in London, and so was his son and grandson.
Does anybody know about the Burgess,s of Frome?

Thanks Stevie G and Rob G for the info, its all very interesting.
The Buck family is my husbands, and it was quite a surprise to him and his family when a distant Buck relative in Australia told him. This person originally came from Bethnal Green and remembered his gt granddad telling him when he was young that their family were Romanies.

So i will try all the womens names in the family, although very hard with the name Smith! lol

Dorsyb