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James Burgess (1711 - 1818)

James Burgess was born in 1771 in Market LavingtonAll Cannings, Wiltshire. She He was christened on 1 May 1808 at St Mary's Market Lavington15 December 1771. James was the fourth child and third son of James Michael Burgess and Mary MeadMartha Weston. 

James married Eleanor Pincheon in Market Lavington on 21 September 1826. She is generally recorded as the second child and second daughter of Charles Pincheon and Betty Sutton.

Eleanor and James had 12 children (8 sons and 4 daughters):

Mary Mead on 12 November 1795 at St Mary's Marketing Lavington. Mary was the daughter of Hugh Mead and Martha Browse.

James and Mary had 8 children - five sons and three daughters - at least five of whom lived to adulthood:

• John Burgess Born 1796. Married Mary Cotterell 1820. Died 1871 
• Elizabeth Burgess Born 1798. 
• James Burgess Born 1800. Died 1802 - Died as infant
• Sarah Burgess Born 1803. Married John Pincheon 1825. Died ?
• James Burgess Born 1805. Married Eleanor Pincheon 1826. Died 1867.  
• Harriet Burgess Born 1807. Married James Stantial 1842. Died 1862
• Jacob Burgess Born 1810. Died 1814 - Died as an infant
• Jacob Burgess Born 1817. Married (1) Sarah Laney 1842 (2) Sarah Hopkins 1869. Died 1894

Based on the birth record of their children, James and Eleanor Mary lived in Market Lavington – where James worked as a farm labourer - from the time of their marriage until around 1838.

Some time before June 1838 the family moved abt 60km to Bedminster in Bristol (which was part of Somerset until 1831). The timing of this relocation is confirmed by the registration of James birth.

At the time of the 1841 census the family – James, Eleanor, Sarah Ann, William, James and Harriett - were living at Upper Easton in Gloucestershire (near Bristol).

By the time of the 1851 census the family – James, Eleanor, James, Harriet, Alfred and John  - had grown by two and were living at 11 Waterloo Square in Bedminster, Bristol in the home of their daughter Sarah Ann and her husband William Shepherd and their daughter Elizabeth Ann (and William's three children from a previous marriage – John, Mary and Albert.  James Snr is record as Malster – someone who prepared malt for the purpose of brewing.

In 1853 Sarah Ann and her husband emigrate to Australia. Sarah Anns brother James disappears from records around this time, so it is possible that he either travels with them, or follows them some time between March 1853 and March 1861

It is unknown when the family moved back to Market Lavington, but the 1861 census find them living at Royal Oak, Easterton; and Michael is again recorded as a Agricultural labourer. The couple only have their youngest son – George – living with them at the time. Their sons - Albert and John - are living in Orcheston with James cousin Elizabeth and her husband John Oram where they are working as Under Carter's

On April 5 1863 the family christen their two youngest children – John, George – at St Mary’s in Market Lavington. 

James passed away in Market Lavington in 1867. 

Malster 

James died in 1818

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