'Burdett3'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Burdet of Burton Overy, Burdett of Dunmore, Burdett of Garahill

                               
Nichols reports that "The arms pretended to (by this family) is the coate of sir Francis Burdett, of Derbyshire, bart. with a crescent for difference, which was not allowed at the Heralds' Visitation. Note that there were Burdetts at Huncote back in the 14th century.
Thomas Burdet of Huncote, later of Husband's Bosworth
1. William Burdet (a 1582, d 01.05.1627, rector of Burton Overy)
m. Anne Hodges (dau of Francis Hodges of Burton Overy)
  A. Thomas Burdet of Burton Overy had issue
  m1. Joan Bowman of Medborn (sister of Thomas)
  m2. Anne Woodward of Burton Overy
  B. Theophilus Burdet (d 20.1.1674, rector of Burton Overy)
  m. Christian Grey (b 1597-8, d 05.06.1681, dau of Anthony Grey of Burbach, later Earl of Kent)
  i. Henry Burdet (b c1625, d 29.12.1709, rector of Burton Overy)
  m. Elizabeth Thorne (b c1639, d 02.03.14701, dau of Giles Thorne, archdeacon of Buckinghamshire)
  ii. Theophilus Burdet (b c1629, a 1681, rector of Gumley)
  m. Elizabeth Hodges (dau of John Hodges, son of Francis of Burton Overy)
  a.+ issue (a 1682) - Theophilus (b 1659), John (b c1668), Henry (b c1681), Elizabeth (b c1664), Anne (b c1667)
  iii. Magdalen Burdet
  m. James Wright (vicar of Twiford)
  iv. Anne Burdet
  m1 Thomas Eare (rector of Ashby Parva)
  m2. William Pettifer (vicar of Foxton)
  v. Christian Burdet
  m1. John Elliott of Walton in Kimcote
  m2. George Sadler of Atherston
  vi. Patience Burdet
  m1. Daniel Trig (vicar of Somerby)
  m2. Michael Bret of Upper Broughton
  m3. William Silverton (minister in Nottinghamshire)
  vii. Priscilla Burdet
  m. Sir James Benverley of Gains Park
  viii. Elizabeth Burdet
  m. Richard Iliff of Kibworth Beauchamp
  ix. Grace Burdet
  m. Richard Burdet of Burton Overy
  C. William Burdet
  m. Susan Billers of Leicester
  D. Richard Burdet
  m. Alice Freeman (dau of Thomas Freeman of Burton Overy)
  E. Frances Burdet
  m. Philip Wale of Ashby Parva
  F. Mary Burdet
  m. _ Lucas of Holwell in Guilsborough
  G. Anne Burdet
  m. Robert Freeman of Burton Overy

 

 

George Burdett (a 1670, Dean of Leighlin)
1. Thomas Burdett of Garahill (Garyhill) Castle, co. Carlow (d before 16.08.1701)
  m. Catherine Kennedy (dau of Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Bart)
  A. Sir Thomas Burdett of Garahill, Sheriff later Governor of co. Carlow, 1st Bart of Dunmore (b 14.09.1668, d 14.04.1727)
m1. Honora Boyle (bur 14.11.1710, dau of Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, sister of Murrouigh, 1st Viscount Blessington, widow)
  m2. Martha Vigors (dau of Bartholomew Vigors, Bishop of Ferns & Leighlin)
  i. Sir William Vigors Burdett, 2nd Bart (b 08.01.1715, d 17.11.1798)
  m1. Catherine Sympson (dspms 22.02.1768, niece of Robert Jones of Mount Kennedy)
  m2. (05.10.1769) Henrietta O'Brien (d 17.11.1797, sister of 1st Marquess of Thomond, widow of Terence O'Loughlin)
  a. Sir William Bagenal Burdett, 3rd Bart (bpt 16.07.1770, d 14.12.1840)
  The remainder established when the baronetcy was created led to it passing into the Weldon family, through the marriage of the 1st Bart's sister.
  m1. (07.03.1800) Maria Reynell (d 05.07.1816, dau of Rev. Henry James Reynell)
  (1) Helen Burdett
m. (1831) Henry Bell of Woolsington (dsp 17.11.1887, Captain)
  m2. (18.07.1820) Esther Smith (d 01.01.1845, dau/coheir of Thomas Smith of Castleton Hall)
  B. Anne Burdett
  m. Walter Weldon of Rahinderry (d 16.05.1728-9)
2. Jane Burdet probably of this generation
  m. George Stanley
  A. ?? Stanley
  i. George Stanley of Clonmore
  m. (1736) Margaret Hovenden (dau of Thomas Hovenden of Gurteen)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811,' Pedigree of Burdet of Burton Overy', p*630 (before p629))
(2) For lower section (originally launched within a Temporary page on 25.04.09) : BP1934 ('Weldon')
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