Descendants of John BURNETT of
Levisham
This is my own branch of the name. It
was in the village
of Levisham, on the
southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, that Thomas BURNETT, an alehouse
keeper, lived and raised a family in the early 18th century. Thomas had at
least four children; three of them, Robert, Mary and John, variously recorded
with the surnames BURNETT and BURNAND, being baptised at Levisham. The baptism
record for the fourth child, Philip, has not survived but he is mentioned in
other, later records which provide further, more conclusive evidence that
BURNAND was a local variant of BURNETT. If this variant is accepted then it is
almost certain that Thomas BURNETT was a descendant of Robert BURNAND, recorded
in the parish register of nearby Lockton, who was very probably one and the
same person as Robert BURNETT, listed in Hearth Tax returns as a householder,
in Lockton, in 1673. There was a Thomas BURNAND recorded in Lockton as early as
1596 and it is very likely that he was my ancestor. Unfortunately, the survival
rate of records for the villages of Levisham and Lockton is very poor, and it
has so far proved impossible to take this line any further back than Thomas,
the alehouse keeper, with any degree of certainty. This family tree shows the
descendants of his son John BURNETT, my 4xgreat-grandfather. The descendants of
John's brother Philip BURNETT are contained in a separate file - the "Vale
of Pickering Branch"
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