Burn Family, Walworth, Durham

[Geordie Mag]

http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/data/neisearch.php#x1760.Burn.1

Hope this works

[Bugman]

Thank you very much for this information, I was beginning to despair of getting any new information at all, I have to admit compared to people like yourself I am a novice.
 It would be nice to know who were John and Anthony parents were.
I always wondered if Walter and Alice were his John's parents, their son John was baptised at Gainford in 1710, the daughter Ann 1708, they were living at Bolam, but none of John's or Thomas's children are named after them, which seems to be the usual case in those days.
i was going to put in a new post regarding Walter etc, I may still do.
any links would be appreciated.

John.

[Bugman]

Hi, yes your link worked, thank you once again.

John.

[Geordie Mag]

I have had another search for Anthony's birth, but without success. I also tried looking for the sister who is named in his will - Elizabeth, married to Thomas Watson - but again without success. I couldn't see a name for the sister married to George Gilling, so perhaps she had already died. Of course, at that time talking about a brother in-law might not have the same meaning that it would today. A stepson, for example,  was called a son-in-law. But that all starts to get a bit too complicated. I think your real problem is that once you get back to the early 18th century, not quite so many records are available online, so searches become less revealing.
Changing tack slightly; you gave the dates of birth for John's sons, in 1824, 1826 and 1828. Which church were they baptized in?

[Bugman]

Just got back from Durham records office, looked for Anthony & Elizabeth, like you no luck,

No idea where they were baptized, I will recheck the Heighington records they were probably from there. next time I go to the records office.

are you a Burn?

[Geordie Mag]

If they were living in Walworth Heighington should be their parish. I thought that if they were baptized elsewhere it would show a particular family loyalty - which would be helpful. In fact, some Walworth families went to Denton, but I had a quick glance and there weren't any Burns. A pity, because Denton records are much more detailed than those of Heighington on the whole.
No, I'm not a Burn. However I am concerned with the Todds  who are in the same area. There are several branches of the Todds in Walworth, but after tracking various links and drawing family trees with lots of lines going everywhere to show distant connections - usually thanks to wills in the Inheritance database - I sadly find that the line I am concerned with is the less well recorded Redworth branch, whose records are nearly all in the scrappy Heighington register. So i am repeatedly going over the same ground as you. I also have various interests in the Gainford area.

[Bugman]

Just been looking at the tithe section on the same site of the will you found for me
have you got the Cuthbert Todd record on page 21 at Hamsterley, I did not check what land he owned.
John.

[Bugman]

I noticed there was another Todd at Heighington on the tithe records Christopher Todd occupier, not a land owner this time, page 5.
you probably already have this record, but I will send it anyway.

[WolfieSmith]

A marriage on FreeReg. At West Witton, North Yorks.

17 Jul 1823. John Burn of Walworth, Huntington (mistranscribed from Heighington?), Bachelor, and Ann Bell of West Witton, Spinster. Witnesses - Matthew Bell and Thomas Burn. By License.

I assume this is your John in 1851, in Brompton, Northallerton :

John Burn, Head, mar, 73, Coal Dealer, b. Durham, Gainford.
Mary Ann Burn, dau, 12, b. Yorks, Brompton,
William Burn, son, 22, Blacksmith, b. Durham, Hurworth,
James Burn, son 7, b. Yorks, Brompton.

So this will be James baptism on Familysearch.

James Burn, 10 Feb 1844, Brompton by Northallerton. Parents John and Ann.

James birth cert will confirm his mothers maiden name. James Burn, Northallerton, Mar qtr 1844.vol 24, p 413.

Alan.