Some Research into the Burt Family – Bill Neil Family History

A hint from Ancestry set me down a rabbit hole concerning the Burt family. My William Ramsay married Margaret burt in 1810 and this concerns her siblings and parents

I don’t know if I really want to add any of this as I found some of it hard to verify. Other bits seemed good but more detailed research is needed to sort of the good from the bad. I added the information to notes for each of the people in my “Family Historian” software concerned but didn’t add them as facts

PETER BURT and JANET DUNCAN

There is more information about John Burt, the son of Peter Burt & Euphan Couper and brother of Margaret Burt who married William Ramsay. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/63191548/person/422336296433/facts

According to this Ancestry link he married Janet Duncan (1813-1887) on 1 Jun 1834 at Kinross.

Their children were

William Henry Burt (1836-1917) born Dunfermline

Jane Burt (Owen) (1837–1871) born Dunfermline

John Burt (1839–1861) born Scotland

Jane Hamlyn Dorothea Willian Abrams Burt (1841–1861) born On Board Ship to Australia

He died 1883 Hoih W, Victoria, Australia

It has to be said that I could not find the births of these children (at least the Scottish born ones). I did find the marriage at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=SCOT%2FOPR%2FMAR%2F0828164%2F1&tab=this

At Scotland’s People it is at

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results/88470894266a36cbc318af

I put all this inside a note for him in Family Historian

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ISABELLA ORMISTON BURT

There was another hint on ancestry regarding this family

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/26610264:60143?tid=176461572&pid=182293414209&hid=1026443480107

This links to a Geneanet Tree at https://gw.geneanet.org/dgerrard?n=burt&oc=&p=isabella

that suggests that she married Andrew Stenhouse (1816-1857) 30 Oct 1843 at Dunfermline. A search of Find My Past shows the banns date of 30 Oct 1843 and marriage as 1843. Andrew Stenhouse is in the transcription as a labourer of Inverkeithing.

According to the Geneanet listing they had two children

Andrew Stenhouse 1845-

Euphemia Cooper Stenhouse 1847-1937

There is a tree of this at https://gw.geneanet.org/dgerrard?lang=en&pz=alice&nz=gunning&ocz=1&m=A&p=andrew&n=stenhouse&oc=7&siblings=on&notes=on&t=T&v=6&image=on&marriage=on&full=on-1937

Which shows more of Andrew Stenhouse’s parentage.

There is also a link on the Find My Past website to the 1851 Census https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1851%2F0020753494&tab=this

First name(s)	Last name	Relationship	Marital status	Sex	Age	Birth year	Occupation	Birth place
Andrew	Stanhouse	Head	Married	Male	36	1815	Gardener	Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Isabella	Stanhouse	Wife	Married	Female	35	1816	–	Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Andrew	Stanhouse	Son	–	Male	5	1846	Scholar	Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Euphemia	Stanhouse	Daughter	–	Female	3	1848	–	Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

There is also a suggestion here https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/176461572/person/182293414209/hints that she may have remarried to a Fredric Jones and that she died 24 Jun 1873 at Creswick, Victoria, Australia. An “estate notice” is attached at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/176461572/person/182293414209/hints

which says that she died intestate and that it was decided that her estate should be granted to “Euphemia Watson, wife of James Watson, of Creswick aforesaid, labourer and the daughter and next of kin of the said deceased”

So it seems from this that Euphemia born 1848 in Inverkeithing married a James Watson. This also rather implies that Euphemia’s older brother, Andrew, had died before his mother’s death in 1873

In fact you can go on forever with this family. There are lots of links to other children of Peter Burt & Euphan Couper including

Elizabeth Burt b 1826 Dunfermline

married

John Gifford 1832–1904

Children

James Gifford 1858–

William Gifford 1863–

John Gifford 1867–

Peter Burt Gifford 1869–

From <https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/34423806/person/402354465248/facts>

She possibly also died 23 Feb 1897 Dunfermline

James Burt

There is a suggestion on Ancestry that he died the same year as his birth

See https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/34423806/person/402354465251/facts

but if you follow this there are some ridiculous contradictions

From <https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/34423806/person/402191304314/facts>

Mary Burt

There is a suggestion that she also married a Stenhouse – Robert Senhouse (1819-1903) in Inverkeithing on 21 Jun 1841. This suggests that they had the following children

From <https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/34423806/person/402354465253/facts>

It also suggests she died 28 Aug 1878 at Tillicoultry, Fife, Scotland