I am looking for the ancestors of Henry Burden,
born April 22, 1791 in Dunblane, Stirlingshire.
His Parents were Peter and Elizabeth Abercrombie
Burden. He came to the U.S.A. in 1819 after attending
University of Edinburgh. He married Helen McQuat in
Montreal in 1821. They lived in the Albany, New York area.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Peg

I live in Troy, NY, and have been working on the Burdens Genealogy. I may have some answers for you. Janie

Henry is my Great Uncle. Your inquiry was a few years ago, so I don't expect anything to come of this.

If anyone is intersted further I'd like to collaborate. Essentially I like to post info first for everyone. (Which I have done sooo many times on this site) And then I like to individually email collaborators.

Often in these pages, people just pick info or individual email addresses and never give anything back. Bron

Interested in this Burden tree . I do have a Burden tree but my interest stems form the McOuat family . Joyce Jones

Joyce,

I have replied, I hope (!) to your direct email via ancestry.com. My email is b1b2j3atbigpond.com

I would be very interested in any assistance you could give me with regard to the McQuat Family. I can add you to my ancestry.com site, but you need to respond to the email initially sent by yourself.

Bron

Joyce, Thanks for the Helen in. As I said lost a lot of genealogy when the Dell died.
I never had a picture of Helen, and I can't find one in the photo album. The 2 Burdens I know don't seem to have any they know of. In fact they were not aware till I found that article about Palmer doing a bust on Henry back in 2003.
If I had known that the letter I figured out was yours, I would have been more personal about it, rather then the Burden web site. I'm use to reading Henry's writing.
If by chance I get a copy of Helen, I will let you know.
Oh, onr thing I do want you to know, but DO NOT PUT IT ON THE Burden SITE. It's nothing special it's just that I know Henry's birthday is 22 April 1791. On the roll before the birth dates, there is a statement that the dates aren't accurate as the families did not record them when they were suppose to, till the government got after them. So, they were inserted in 1792. Plus everything from the family ststes its 1791. Don't say anything to Bron. The McDowell sisters did end up in an institution, but not the one Bron has, and not the reason she states. Janie

I corrected Eliza's birthplace & Henry Burden's birth date. Sent your note to Joyce as this is Bron. Also found the 1900 Bloomingdale Asylum record. And thank you.

Feel I've been put squarely in my place now. Would have preferred it otherwise. I have only tried to build a Family. My apologies if I have trespassed upon my own.

Dear Jane

Despite the rather strange email, sent, somewhat inadvertently sent to Joyc in Canada, (McOuat Bilsland Burden), I think I should hang out a Peace sign, at this time. I'm an old Hippy ind you, so hanging out the Peace, means, just that.

I understand that you are more likely, given the paucity of family data on your own Ancestry.com, that you are busy helping another.

Jane, maybe, that other, may like to 'chat' to me 1:1.

Now, I understand your position here Jane. You are, maybe, between boulder & colorado. Maybe you could access my ancestry.com web pages. They are not about Burdens in Troy. They are about my Mother Betty Bannatyne's genealogy.

Mum is still alive. and, from a time, maybe 6 years ago, Mum thought she had no body living outside of Australia, no dead person (none), dead outside Australia, no Family history.

No she does, complicated as it stands.

Bron

b1b2j3@bigpond.com

Sorry Jane,

Having Notebook keyboard problems. Ergo, lots of mistakes ala spelling. My Vermonter husband went into apoplexy, when I suggested another 'keyboard'. By the way my Bruce, a Vermonter, spent his boyhood avoiding William Douglas Burden and others on the Suicide six, Woodstock Vermont ski slopes, as well as the local home slopes of Wm D. Burden.

Bruce is a relative by marriage to the McKee's of this are.

How about you get your 'Burden' patron / friend / colleague to write me direct? I do not bite & I can always learn.

Bron

Happy now?

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Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 18 November 1974
Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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