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Thank you so much for this. I feel my great-uncle coming to life, as it were, the more I read about him. I am puzzling how to establish a connection with him through my cousinage, if indeed this can be done at all. But the Somerset Herald at the College of Arms has granted me the right to bear the Burdett coat of arms, first granted to Sir Henry, which is a beginning

Hi Fredbloggs


Welcome to Rootschat 

We could probably find quite a bit for you on this chappie - but first, what do you already have - census, names of his children, their marriages & children etc.... etc etc so we don't spend time chasing what you already know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Burdett
"Sir Henry Burdett (1847–1920) was son of the Reverend Halford Burdett, a Leicestershire clergyman, and his wife Alsina...."

Cheers
AMBLY

Thanks so much for your swift response. As you see I am new to RootsChat and indeed have only recently begun to research my ancestry in earnest - in fact, since my father Noel Henry Burdett died and I discovered that most of what he would have had us believe about our origins was fantasy ...
So please forgive me if I make the occasional wrong move here at this early stage! I really only know what you quote here from Wikipedia about Sir Henry Burdett, even after a recent visit to the College of Arms in London. Even the details of his children given by stanmapstone here are new to me. I would like to follow them up - can you advise how best to do this? Many thanks