January 21, 2009:

Hi Al,
 
I found the attached marriage Buckingham record for Lewis Burns, s/o Patrick Burns of 
Clonmore Parish, County Wicklow, Ireland (a few good days of Clonmore people in Bytown!) 
to Mary Ann Wallace. The interesting part is that Lewis lived in Cumberland, ON.
 
Here's the marriage of his son, Lewis:
 
Name: Lewis Burns 
Birth Place: Cumberland  
Age: 33  
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850  
Father Name: Lewis Burns 
Mother Name: Mary Ann Wallace Burns 
Spouse Name: Elizabeth Hamilton 
Spouse's Age: 34  
Spouse Estimated Birth Year: abt 1849  
Spouse Birth Place: Cumberland  
Spouse Father Name: James Hamilton 
Spouse Mother Name: Rebecca Carson 
Marriage Date: 31 Dec 1883 
Marriage Place: Russell  
Marriage County: Russell  
Family History Library Microfilm: MS932_44  

 
The 1851 census for Cumberland no longer exists, according to LAC. Here's what I got from 
Ancestry's World Tree:
 
Minogue / Seller Ancestors
Entries: 1669    Updated: 2008-10-14 14:11:03 UTC (Tue)    Contact: Kenneth Minogue  


1. John BURNS was born ABT 1842. He was the son of 2. Lewis BURNS and 3. Mary Ann WALLIS. 
He married Jane Ann HAND.  

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Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2

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2. Lewis BURNS was born ABT 1804 in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, and died 2 Jun 1868 in Cumberland, 
Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Dale's Cemetery, Cumberland, Ontario, Canada. 


3. Mary Ann WALLIS was born 25 Nov 1821 in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada, and died 19 Sep 
1921 in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada. She was buried in Dale's Cemetery, Cumberland, 
Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of 6. John WALLIS and 7. Emily ST. MICHAEL. 
    
 Children of Mary Ann WALLIS and Lewis BURNS are: 1.   
 i. John BURNS was born ABT 1842. He married Jane Ann HAND.  
    ii. Sarah BURNS was born 11 Jul 1844 in Ontario, Canada, and died 7 Feb 1933 in 
	Cumberland, Ontario, Canada. She married James MINOGUE 1862, son of Edward MINOGUE 
	and Catherine MURPHY. He was born 1833 in Ireland, and died 25 Mar 1900 in Cumberland, 
	Ontario, Canada.  

(Note: In Osgoode Township, my Burns ancestors knew a Minogue family in the 1800's ... Al)

    iii. Emily BURNS was born 9 May 1846, and died 1918. She married William HARRISON 
	11 Mar 1872 in Ottawa, Ontario, son of John HARRISON and Sarah E. KEENAN. He was born 
	22 Feb 1851, and died AFT 1901.  
    iv. Lewis BURNS was born 1 Apr 1852 in Ontario. He married Eliza Jane HAMILTON. She 
	was born 1 Dec 1847 in Ontario, and died 29 Jul 1907.  
    v. William BURNS was born ABT 1857. 
    vi. Samuel BURNS was born ABT 1857.

6. John WALLIS was born in Essex, England.  


7. Emily ST. MICHAEL.  
    
 Child of Emily ST. MICHAEL and John WALLIS is: 
 3.   i. Mary Ann WALLIS was born 25 Nov 1821 in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada, and died 
 19 Sep 1921 in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada. She married Lewis BURNS. He was born ABT 
 1804 in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, and died 2 Jun 1868 in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada.

... Anne  Burgess
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more from Anne:

Al, I noticed a Georgina Byrnes listed just about that Minogue line in the Spratt tree, 
and just checked out her marriage, which showed a John J. Byrnes as her father.
 
I thought he'd be a son of Lewis, so I looked in 1881:
 
Household:

 Name  Marital Status Gender Ethnic Origin Age Birthplace Occupation Religion 
 John J. BYRNES   M   Male   Irish   48   Q    Farmer   C. Presbyterian  
 Mary BYRNES   M   Female   Scottish   44   Q       C. Presbyterian  
 Georgena BYRNES      Female   Irish   14   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Michael J. BYRNES      Male   Irish   13   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 John ... BYRNES      Male   Irish   11   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Maria BYRNES      Female   Irish   9   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Catherine BYRNES      Female   Irish   6   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Ida BYRNES      Female   Irish   2   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Alexander BYRNES      Male   Irish   7   O.       C. Presbyterian  
 Welthy BYRNES   W   Female   Irish   75   Q       C. Presbyterian  


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Source Information:
  Census Place Cumberland, Russell, Ontario 
  Family History Library Film   1375865 
  NA Film Number   C-13229 
  District   104 
  Sub-district   C 
  Division   1 
  Page Number   49 
  Household Number   190+ 

 
But no, he's not: The widow Welthy (or whatever her name really is) Burtch was m. to 
Michael Byrnes, and they were baptizing their kids in Buckingham, too. So, 
maybe a brother of Lewis's?


Source: Drouin records for Notre Dame de Bon Secours at Buckingham, Quebec from ancestry.ca 
This was part of La Petite Nation seignory ... Al

By the way, Lewis's own baptism is too early for the Clonmore records I have, but the 
Byrnes were still naming a son Lewis (spelled that way) there in the 1870s - in Ballynultagh.
 
... Anne
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Hi again, Anne:
 
My gggrrandfather, Lawrence Burns, and his sons had a tradition of working in the shanties 
north of Buckingham in the winters, probably continuously for about 45 years starting in 
the 1830's. My Great Grandfather, James Burns, married later to Anne Robb, was born near 
Buckingham.
 
In going through some of my old papers, I found this baptism of Michael Burns, baptised 
in Buckingham in 1839. 


He was a brother of my GreatGrandfather, James Burns. One of the 
witnesses appears to be a Flynn. The best man seems to be a Corrigan, a well known and 
large Buckingham area family. In 1839, Lawrence Burns is described as a farmer at Hull. 
I believe the farm was at Ironsides in Hull County. At the same time, he had 200 acres in 
Gloucester Township, Bowesville Road area, which he had bought in 1835 from the Canada 
Company. By 1845 he was homesteading on the Manotick Station Road with his second wife, 
Bridget Jordan whose mother was a Corrigan.
 
Also, recorded at Notre Dame downtown is this record which you have:
 
18 Feb 1834
Buckingham, LC 
Baptism of James, son of Lawrence Burns and Mary Tompkins (County Wicklow)
(This family later joined St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Buckingham)
Thomas Murphy & Mary Ward
John Cullen, M. Ap. 

and this one: 

6 Oct 1843
(My GGGrandparents ... Al)
Baptism of John, aged 5 mos., son of Lawrence Burns and Margaret Doyle of Chelsea, LC
Witnesses: John Darcy & Margaret Oyin (Gunn? Or Winn?)
B.J. Leclaire, P.
(John Burns disappeared at age 19 and was not heard from again - John: Call Home!)) 

Also, my GreatGrandmother, Anne Robb's, father was a lumber mill manager in the Gatineau 
Valley -- he was Scottish, Presbyterian, and this family later moved to a farm near 
Cumberland. 

Time for a dog walk and a clearing of the grey cells. 

... Al
January 8, 2010:

I've been looking at the Wicklow families who settled in Cumberland, Al, and came upon that story on B or B of an Emily Burns, 
who was seduced by a young man in Bytown and her brother arranged (with a gun) for a speedy marriage:
 
http://www.bytown.net/harrison.htm
 
You had said that this Burns family might be yours. Well, Emily Burns was the daughter of Lewis Burns (of Clonmore parish, Co. Wicklow) 
and Mary Ann Wallace, living in Cumberland. Their children were baptized over in Buckingham, though, where we also 
found Lawrence Byrne m. Mary Tompkins.

... Anne
January 24, 2010:
Hi Al:

See 
reminiscences of Lewis Burns, and 2 friends from Wicklow. This article is from the Ottawa Citizen of July 12, 1932.

... Anne


 April 28, 2011:

It's possible that Lewis Burns was related to Michael Byrnes. Maybe a brother?