Descendants of John BURNETT of Levisham


This is my own branch of the name. The story, so far, begins in the village of Levisham on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. It was here, in the early 18th century, that Thomas BURNETT, an alehouse keeper, lived and raised a family. Thomas had at least four children; three of them, Robert, Mary and John, variously listed under 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 were people with the surname BURNAND/BURNETT living in Lockton as early as 1608 and it is very likely that these people were my ancestors. 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, with any degree of certainty. This family tree shows the descendants of his son John BURNETT, my 4xg-grandfather. The descendants of John's brother Philip BURNETT are contained in a separate file - the "Vale of Pickering Branch"

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