The Burdett Baronets Haven’t yet found the tie-in with the wealthy Burdett-Coutts family to the farmer, blacksmith and servant heritage of my actual relatives. The famous Sir Francis Burdett (25 Jan 1770 – 23 Jan 1884) married Sophia Burdett (Coutts) in 1793. His father was also Francis Burdett. His Grandfather was Sir Robert Burdett, …
May Burdett was my great-grandmother. She was born in 1884 in Spixworth, St. Faith’s, Norwich, South Norfolk, England. Her parents were William Burdett and Susannah Elizabeth Willimott. She married Harry Frederick Potter, my great-grandfather. She died Sept, 1964 at age 81 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Burdett Surname According to surnamedb.com:This interesting and uncommon name is …
My great-grandfather, Ralph Warren “Marcus” Sears was born May 24, 1885, and lived on Perth Road in Loughborough, Addington, Frontenac County. He was a Methodist. He died at on February 5, 1969, living to 83 years and 8 months. My uncle told me he remembers his grandfather to be an ornery man, with a quick …
The Sears family name is derived, misspelled, translated, obscured, and Americanized into various forms. From ancestry.com, this blurb on the Sears name seems to simplify everything. Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below). …