This site contains the ever growing family tree of our BURTON family. My research to date has determined that we originate from the County of Essex, England (in what is now considered the east end of London). The Canadian and US branches of the family descend from a small group of four BURTONs who emigrated in the early 1800s to the Township of Scarborough, in the Home District of Upper Canada (now a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Joseph BURTON the Elder, a Plumber and Glazier from Romford in the County of Essex, England, was the first to bring his family to settle in Upper Canada in 1818. Once Joseph was established, his nephew William BURTON and two neices Sarah Spearing Burton GOSTICK and Elizabeth Burton VINCENT, and their families, emigrated to the Townships of Scarborough, Pickering and East Zorra respectively in 1832. William, Sarah and Elizabeth were siblings, the children of Joseph's older brother John BURTON, a cooper from Stratford, Essex. I descend from William BURTON.
The genealogy presented in the reports at the bottom of this web page includes all the information I have been able to find so far about the descendants of each family mentioned above, as well as their ancestors, and branch lines who remained in England. I have been as meticulous as possible to include detailed sources, and I have been particularly brutal in not including anyone for whom I do not have conclusive evidence of a connection.
I have included some photos and document images to add meat to the bones of this genealogy, but I ask you to note that the automated uploading capability of this web site does not permit photos to remain in the order in which they were uploaded. I have numbered them sequentially to make it a bit easier to view them in chronological order. Additionally, because of privacy rules, details of all living individals have had to be "privatized".
***SPECIAL THANKS***
During my research, I have discovered several "long lost cousins" in various parts of the world who have each contributed their research to this effort. They include:
a. Frank CHURCHLEY of Victoria, British Columbia, my 3rd cousin once removed, who contributed his work on the descendants of Ann BURTON and William LAW;
b. Carol CARPENTER CULBERTSON of Evanville, Wisconsin, my 4th cousin once removed, who contributed her work on the descendants of William BURTON Jr. and Margaret BROWN, John BURTON and Anna ROWLAND, and Martha BURTON and Richard HAWKEY in the time period after those families migrated to the United States;
c. Dr. James BURTON of Bothell, Washington, my 4th cousin once removed, who contributed his own descendant line from William BURTON Jr. and Margaret BROWN;
e. Sally BOMBARDO and Jack BURTON of Michigan, who are also distant relations, and who contributed research on some of the descendants of Joseph BURTON the Elder; and
f. Howard BURTON of Toronto, Ontario, my 6th cousin, who recently communicated with me and who descends from Joseph BURTON.
Updated: 9 February 2008
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- 07 - George BURTON's Green River Store c.1880 (125 KB)
George BURTON & family operated this General Store in the village of Green River in the Township of Pickering from 1878-1888. George & Eliza are seen here standing on the front steps with Edgar, Charles, Frank and baby Ernest.
- 08 - George BURTON Family Portrait c.1891 (129 KB)
left-right: George, Nellie, Alda, Edgar, Frank, Ernest, Florence, Charles & Eliza. Photo likely taken in Toronto c.1891.
- 01 - Marriage of Thomas BURTON (312 KB)
6 Nov 1723 - Marriage licence for Thomas BURTON of Ongar, Essex, age 24 and Alice INGULL of Hornchurch, age 23, who married the same day in St. Benet Paul's Wharf, London. Vicar-General Marriage Licence Allegations.
- 02 - Marriage of William Ingol BURTON (239 KB)
8 Sep 1745 - Marriage between William Ingol BURTON, bachelor, and Sarah SPEARING, spinster, in the Parish Marriage Register of St. Margaret, Barking, Essex.
- 03 - Marriage of William BURTON (213 KB)
28 Dec 1828 - Marriage between William BURTON, bachelor, and Ann BURTON, spinster, in the Parish Marriage Register of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London.
- 04 - St. Botolph Bishopsgate, London, England (73 KB)
This is St. Botolph Bishopsgate, the church in which William BURTON married Ann BURTON, 29 December 1828. Photo by Greg Burton May 2001.
- 05 - William LAW and Ann BURTON (74 KB)
William LAW and Ann BURTON (daughter of William and Ann BURTON) c.1900.
- 06 - Grave Marker - William BURTON Sr & Ann BURTON (91 KB)
William & Ann Burton were buried in the Primitive Methodist Church cemetery in the Village of Malvern, Township of Scarborough. The marker now lies flat on the ground. It reads, "William Burton died Jan 11, 1881 AE 73 yrs 2 ms also Ann Beloved wife of William Burton who died Jan 6, 1879 AE 78 yrs 1 Mo & 16 Days - Blessed are the dead which die on the Lord" Photo by Greg Burton Summer 1999.
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One of the Burton Families of England, Canada & the US