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Frank Kitley Burges
published by on Thu, 30/03/2017 - 10:25

Frank Burges also known as Frank Kitley Burges and Frank Kitley. Born 22.2.1853. His mother was

unmarried but later married Matthew Henry Harse Kitley. He is shown on 1861 census living with parents and siblings in Ashley Place WSM. In 1871 he is lodging in Bath a Lower Borough Walls.

He marries in 1880 on 26th April to Sarah Elver.He is shown on 1881 census staying with his

aunt and grandmother in Lower Langford and unmarried? She is living in WSM at 60 Palmer

Street with their son Frank Kitley Burges (Jnr) and his sister Emily. WHY does he say he is

unmarried. they went on to have second child in May 1886 and six weeks later he dies in WSM.

I have a photograph of him in uniform with a pillbox hat so must been taken around 1875? but

also found a deserter of that name from Grenadier Guards. Was this why he said he was unmarried

and was not living with his family. ? Also dont know where he was buried. He is my husbands

great grandfather. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

Jeanette Perry

Comments ..

Submitted by Pat Hase on Fri, 31/03/2017 - 0:56

To answer your last question first he was buried on the 3rd July 1886 in Weston Cemetery Plot Number Tc 1489. There is no memorial on the grave.

I think that the fact that he was entered as "Unmarried" on the 1881 census may well have been an error on the part of the ennumerator who simply assumed that any grandson living with his grandmother would be single!

Not sure about the desertion from the Grenadier Guards. Where did you find that?