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From: Jim Lynch <>
Subject: Re: Scotalnd to Barbados (BURNETT/ALLENDER)
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:10:45 -0400


There are Alexander and Mary BURNETTs in the Caribbeana set, but they are wills
and in the wrong time period. If your people went back to the UK they are
therefore irrelevant to your reseach.

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wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to where I might look to find more about a
> Scot who emigrated to Barbados some time in the mid-1800s, had several (9?)
> children there and then, after his wife Mary Agnes died there, remarried and
> returned to London?
>
> Pertinent names are:
>
> Alexander Smith BURNETT, the husband, born probably 1835 in Montrose/Forfar
> Mary Agnes née ALLENDER, the wife, who died in Westbury, Barbados on 22 July
> 1976.
> They married around 1863/4 (guess) with their first child, Alexander Herbert
> Saffery BURNETT being born in Barbados in about 1864.
> Some of their other children also had some unusual first or middle names:
> e.g. Llewellyn McPherson Smith (McPherson was Alexander's mother's maiden
> name), and Percy Effingham Smith.
>
> Mary Agnes' will was 'administered' in February 1878 with Alex Smith Burnett
> as executor (20 High Street, Bridgetown, Barbados) and witnessed by Stephen
> ALLENDEN (ALLENDER?), a Gentleman and Lawful Attorney of AS Burnett (and
> probably related to the deceased wife).
>
> Alexander Smith Burnett re-married, to Mary E. [Unknown surname] and they had
> a child, Percy, then returned to London by 4/1881.
>
> Any leads, ideas or information greatly appreciated.
>
> Roy Good, Los Angeles

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