"My father's a Burge, and
my mother's a McLean..."
Welcome! My name is Val Burge of Sydney,
NSW, Australia. This is the index to a history of both sides of my family
tree - or as a friend said about it recently, my family 'forest'.
It's about where they came from in Britain,
who their ancestors were, their occupations, daily lives, some of their
joys and tragedies, when and how they came to Australia, and what happened
after that. The earliest I've managed to go back so far is to 1612 - but
I'm working on it!
I began my research in about 1992. At that
time my father Lindsay Burge (since deceased) had already spent considerable
time corresponding with various people in England, then searching records
offices and parish records in Somerset whenever his travels took him near
there. He was researching the Burges, so I focused on the McLeans. Since
his death, I've taken on the whole family. It went slowly for ten years
or so, but now the internet has taken off in a big way for researchers
of family history, and my knowledge has grown enormously over the past
few years. My current family history covers thousands of names, a dozen
or so major family lines, and many smaller 'offshoots' to the main family
tree.
This began as simple curiosity, but for
me turned into a labour of love, a way of knowing who I belong to. I'll
never forget the moment, as an adult, standing in the middle of a cemetery
surrounded by dozens of family graves, and knowing at last that I belonged.
As a youngest child of a very much youngest child, I'd never had the opportunity
to know even my grandparents, let alone any of their families. My father
moved away from the village where my family settled in Australia when I
was a young child, so I had all ties broken with my roots. I know them
now!
This site is slowly growing, I'm working
my way through the ancestors of four sets of great grandparents and their
descendants - adding pages as the mood takes me.
Before Redbank, Lancefield, Ballarat, Geelong
and the Barossa Valley in Australia, the major geographical areas are Frome,
Whatley and Batheaston in Somerset, Dilton Marsh, Corsley and Corsham in
Wiltshire, Peckham in London, Horsham in Sussex, Brown Candover in Hampshire,
Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire, Patshull, Albrighton, Beckbury, and Chelmarsh
in Shropshire, Pattingham in Staffordshire, Ilfracombe and Berrynarbour
in Devon - and a great great uncles line of the family in Mespotamia, Ohio,
USA.
The Scots line are from the tiny isle of
Taransay, in the Outer Hebrides and Fort William, both in Invernesshire.
I also have quite a few pages of early
photographs of my families in Australia, as well as feature pages on some
areas - see links below.
The people in my family are all ordinary
people (with the possible exception of one who appears to have had a brush
with royalty :-) See the Burge's in Batheaston!) I'm not writing out of
a sense of enormous pride in an outstanding family, I'm not writing about
anything out of the ordinary at all... The lives in these pages stand out
purely by their ordinariness, it is the ordinary that's not recorded in
history, the obscure that is lost. Many of these people have almost become
lost to the world in general, and my direct family had no knowledge of
most of them at all. It's a delight to me to put them all into one place,
to have them available to my childen and those of my brothers, sister and
many, many cousins... and all of my cousins were lost up until I
started researching. Through researching these pages, I have come into
contact with 'lost' family in Australia, but also in England, Wales, Scotland,
Canada, America and New Zealand. Truly a worthy enterprise!
Main Pages
May be accessed using the links below...
or use links at the bottom of each page to go on to the next generation
Sorry, those without links are coming soon...
If you have any questions about them, please feel free to emailme.
Many have what are probably extended families
of my ancestors - worth a look if you have a family member with the same
surname at the right time and place etc. The more people I find out I'm
related to the happier I'll be! Please let me know if you find your family
on the 'extra' pages, and see if we can work out a connection...
(Dates listed are a
guide only to their era, dates of birth of the first of the couple
born and death date of the last to die - full details on the relevant page)
BURGE
Henry Burge
and Frances (Lacey) Burge
Whatley Somerset
circa 1755-1823
James Burge
and Sarah (Gulley) Burge
Whatley and
Frome, Somerset, and Corsley, Wiltshire, UK
1779-1821
(Includes South Australian
line, 1841 and 1851 census info for Burge's
in Frome area and
Burge/Burges/Burgess Frome area BMD's)
William Burge
and Mary (Greenway) Burge,
Batheaston
and Frome, Somerset UK
1805 - ?
(Includes 1841 & 51
census info for Burge's in Bath area and extensive general Burge notes.
Thomas
Greenway Burge and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Burge,
Batheaston,
Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, UK and Redbank, Victoria, Australia
1831
- 1900
William
James and Elizabeth (Cook) Burge
Batheaston,
Lincombe & Widcombe, Twerton, Somerset, UK
1834-1909
John
Gulley and Agnes (Cox) Burge
Batheaston,
Lambeth, Southall, Paddington, Upton Cum Chalvey,
Slough,
UK
1836-1908
Albert
Burge
Batheaston,
Hanover Square Middlesex
1839-?
William
and Ellen Elizabeth (Burge) Harris
Batheaston,
Bermondsey Surrey, Hammersmith, Middlesex
1841-?
(Mother of William Albert Burge)
William Albert Burge
and Emily Ann (Pritchard) Burge
Westminster, Batheaston,
Cheddar Somerset UK, and
Mesopotamia, Trumbull
County, Ohio USA
1861-1928
James
Burge, Batheaston 1842-1843
James
and Mary Ann (Bailey) Burge
Batheaston,
Greenford, Ealing Sussex UK
1843-?
David
and Sarah (Burge) Morgan
Batheaston,
Brecon, South Wales, Ealing Sussex UK
1846-?
Mary,
Henery and Frederick Burge
Batheaston
1847-1857
Rhoda
Burge
Batheaston,
Weston, Bath
1853-?
Samuel and Betty (Kington) Greenway
Corsham and Colerne Wiltshire
1747 - 1833
Thomas Greenway and Elizabeth (Lent) Greenway
Corsham Wiltshire
1783 - ?
William
and Martha Wheeler
Dilton
Marsh, Wiltshire
C. 1790-1875
(Includes 19th Cent Westbury
district census details for Wheelers)
John Henry
Burge and Mary Louisa (Streeter) Burge,
Redbank,
Victoria, Australia
1865 - 1953
John Alfred Lindsay
Burge and Evelyn Mabel (McLean) Burge,
Redbank, Geelong,
Sydney, Castlemaine, Morwell West, Boolarra, Victoria, Australia
1920 - 1996
Valda Burge
(ex Evans - divorced)
Redbank, Avoca,
Castlemaine, Morwell West,
Melbourne,
Darwin, Armidale, Orange, Boolarra.
Lindsay and
Alia Evans
Sydney, Armidale,
Orange, Boolarra.
William Dovey and Anne (Burgess) Dovey,
Chelmarsh, Shropshire
1745 - ?
John Dovey and Martha (Evans) Dovey, Chelmarsh,
Shropshire
1769-1848
James Bentley
and Anne (Walker) Bentley, Pattingham,
Staffordshire
and Albrighton, Shropshire
1750-?
(Incudes extracted Parish
and LDS records of Bentleys in Shropshire
and 'Parish Locator' villages
near Beckbury)
George and
Sarah Bentley, Albrighton, Shropshire
1776 - ?
George Bentley
and Anne (Dovey) Bentley, Beckbury, Shropshire
1805 - ?
William Bentley
and Mary Louisa (Wilkins) Bentley
Patshull,
Staffordshire, Worfield, Shropshire, London, Geelong,
St Arnaud,
and Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1830 - 1915
John Wilkins and Mary (O'Sullivan) Wilkins,
London
1802 - 1861
William Bentley and Mary Louisa (Wilkins)
Bentley
Patshull, Shropshire
1830 - 1915
William Streater and Ann (Aylward) Streater
Horsham, Sussex
1741-1801
James Streater, London
1772-?
William Streeter and Mary Streeter,
Peckham, Camberwell, London
Abt 1803-?
George and Jane Hampton
Brown Candover, Hampshire
Abt 1807-?
Joseph Streeter
and Louisa (Hampton) Streeter
Peckham
London, Brown Candover Hants, Natte Yallock and Brunswick, Victoria
1829-1912
James
Streeter and Elizabeth Jane (Bentley) Streeter
St
Arnaud, Victoria
1853
- 1939
Joseph
Streeter and Sarah Jane (Elliot) Streeter
Sandhurst,
Lamplough, Natte Yallock, East Malvern Victoria
1855-1940
Henry
Streeter and Lily (McNay) Streeter, and Lily (Fisher) Streeter
Echuca,
Natte Yallock, Avoca, Bunyip Victoria
1859-1951
George
Streeter and Clara Maria (Randall nee Albrecht) Streeter
St
Arnaud, Victoria, Mannum S.A., and Natte Yallock, Stawell Victoria
1863-1965
MCLEAN
Roderick McLean and
Mary Ann (McLeod) McLean,
Taransay, Fort William
UK and Lancefield, Victoria
1809 - 1895
(Includes all McLeans in
1841 census Harris District, Invernesshire)
Margaret
McLean & George Whiteside
Taransay,
Fort William, UK and Rochford, Lancefield, Victoria
1834-1915
Rachel
McLean & David Junor
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Gisborne, Victoria
1836-1904
Christina
McLean
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Lancefield (?) Victoria
1837-1859
Catherine
McLean and Walter Langdon Edwards
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Lancefield, Toolamba Victoria
1838-1905
Finlay
and Ann (Holden) McLean
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Lancefield, Victoria
1843-1918
Norman McLean
and 1. Sarah (Kennedy) McLean
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Rokewood,
Geelong, Victoria
1836 - 1877
Norman McLean
and 2. Lucy Jane (Silk) McLean
Taransay,
Fort William UK and Lancefield,
Geelong, Victoria
1836 - 1940
? Silk and Joan (Russell)
Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1612 - ?
John Silk and Margaret
(Blunt) Silk Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1636-1686
William Silk and Rose
(Hinkin) Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1678 - 1749
Thomas Silk and Rose
(Smith) Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1705 - 1784
William Silk and Elizabeth
(Pant) Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1732 - 1801
James Silk and Mary
(Nightingale) Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
1778 - 1859
James Silk and Elizabeth
(Chapman) Silk, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire
and Geelong, Victoria,
Australia 1806 - 1904
Archibald
Neil John McLean and Mabel (Gear) McLean,
Geelong,
Victoria, Australia, 1889 - 1984
James Gear
and Sarah (Draper) Gear, Berrynarbour, Devon
1798 - ?
Benjamin
and Sarah Gear Ilfracombe and Berrynarbor, Devon
1827-?
James Gear
and Maria (Irwin) Gear, Berrynarbor and Martin Combe, Devon, Swansea, Wales
1824-?
Prudence
Gear and George/John Lovering, Berrynarbor and Braunton, Devon
1820/26-?
William Gear and Kezia (Underhill) Gear,
Berrynarbour and Ilfracombe, Devon and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
1832-1903
Alexander McPherson and Mary (McDonald)
McPherson
Scotland, Duneed and Mount Pollock, Victoria,
Australia
Circa 1835 - ?
William Underhill Gear and Catherine (McPherson)
Gear
Ilfracombe Devon, Duneed and Geelong,
Victoria, Australia
1860 - 1926
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