Brief Life History of David Robertson
When David Robertson Burnett was born on 14 February 1814, in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Burnett, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Ann Robertson, was 25. He married Isabella Mary Ruxton on 19 October 1832, in St Vigeans, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1861 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 24 December 1894, in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Dabbelt Bennet, "United States Census, 1860"
- David Burnet, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- David Burnet, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1819 · 67 Streets in Brooklyn By 1819
A village map dated April 8, 1819 shows sixty seven streets. The widest streets measured 60 feet wide while the narrowest street, Doughty Street, measured 20 feet wide.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Biography Of William Van Dawson Burnett
William Van Dawson Burnett was born April 10, 1846, in Bulong, France, a son of David and Isabel Ruxton Burnett. David Burnett, his father was the son of Alexander and Margaret Robertson Burnett. …
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