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Gail Myvanwy Burns
57 Linden Street
Williamstown, MA 01267-2511
413-458-4246
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I am researching WAY too many aspects of my family and my husband's. Surnames include Burns (Scotland & MA/NY in USA), Bury (Ireland & Gloucestershire, England), Everett (MA), Gandolfo/Gondolfo (Italy & USA), Phelps, Phillips, Randolph, Rensch, Riis, Smith, and Zinsser. I am interested in sharing any and all information I have openly with people (hopefully my new-found relatives!) with similar interests. 1. My husband's father's family - Burns - believes that they are descended from Gilbert Burns, brother to the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. My husband's father's father was Edward Joseph Burns, born 1871 in Cambridge, MA. He took his family to the Canajoharie, NY region for a time around the turn of the last century. We would love to make the connection between the Scottish Burns and the American ones. 2. I am searching for an Abigail Everett from the Foxboro, MA area, who died in 1903. She was married to a man who went by either Gandolfo/Gondolfo or Smith, or both. They lived in Brooklyn, NY, and had at least two sons - one of whom was my grandfather Earnest Everett Smith (1880-1949), a Harvard graduate and champion rower. 3. My husband's mother's family - Phelps - are descended from William Phelps who came over on the Mary and John in the mid-17th century. We know a great deal about the prolific and hardy Phelps clan, but always welcome new-found relations! 4. My father's name is Bury (pronounced to rhyme with fury and jury, NOT like berry!) He was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England in 1913. His father was William Israel Bury, son of Joseph Bury and Elizabeth (Eliza) Pascoe; and his mother was Fanny Stock, daughter of Samuel Stock and Mary Ann Davies. Joseph Bury was the son of a William Bury, who was born in 1825 in Dublin, and his wife Ellen. We welcome contact from all other Irish/English Bury's and Stocks. 5. There is a tale in my mother's family of a Count Gandolfo/Gondolfo from Italy, who got in trouble with the church or the state (or both) and fled to America concealed in either a wine cask or an olive oil barrel. Once here he changed his name to Smith to become anonymous. Legend has it that Castel Gandolfo just outside of Rome - now the Pope's summer palace - is rightfully ours!! 6. My mother's grandfather was Richard Fabian Phillips (1850-1927), who was the head of the St. Louis Cotton Exchange in the late 1800's. He emigrated from the UK with his French wife Elise Caroline Rensch (1851-1914, known as Lina) and their three daughters - Mary, Bertha and Caroline. The girls attended The Mary Institute in St. Louis. Mary (1877-1967) became the second wife of Jacob August Riis. Bertha (1879-1964, known as Bee) married John W. Lawson late in life. Caroline (1884-1959), my grandmother, married Earnest Everett Smith. We can trace the Phillips line back to Dr. Robert Phillips (1670) of Shrewsbury, England, and his wife Sarah Acton. 7. My great-grandmother, Elise Caroline Rensch, was one of MANY children of Gustave Napoleon Rensch of the town of Ribeauville in the Alsace Lorraine region of France. I know that we have Rensch relatives living in the USA now. A Robert H. Rensch (b. 1893) who lived in the St. Paul, MN area was in contact with my Aunt Carol P. Smith Zinsser in the 1960's and did a lot of genealogy work with her then. 8. I would be interested to hear from the living descendants of my great-uncle Jacob August Riis (1849-1914), and especially from the descendants of his youngest son, Roger William (Bill) Riis, of whom my mother - Theodora Smith Bury - has fond memories. |
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