When Robert Burnett was born in 1804, in Washington, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Burnett, was 28 and his mother, Mary “Polly” Springer, was 24. He married Isabel Mason in 1824, in Gill Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in New Lebanon, Gill Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Gill Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 20 January 1892, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Burnett Cemetery, Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1817: Sullivan, Indiana, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Sullivan, Indiana, United States
Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin, from Old French burnete, a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ), or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete, a high quality woolen cloth, originally dark brown in color.
Probably also an altered form of English Barnett .
In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
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