REMEMBERING 25 MAY 1852
On this date the clipper EUPHRATES arrived at Port Jackson with immigrants William Burchmore, 32 and EmmaTaylor, 30 shortly to marry and start a new life in the colony. The gold rush and Sydney University had just started and the last convict had been transported to NSW.
William Burchmore c.1900
Emma (Taylor) B.1860
William and Emma: Sydney, here we come!
(Incl. essays by Charles Dickens)
George and Alice 1917
A year later, the good ship HARRIET brought the Kemp family to Sydney and in 1885 the two families were united when George Burchmore 21, married Alice Maud Mary Kemp, 18.
The website is primarily for George and Alice’s descendants – their ancestry going back more than 250 years and updated annually with births, deaths and marriages. It also serves to preserve precious documents,photos and stories and occasionally announces significant family events of the present day.
We also record the lineage of relatives- Harrower, Hutton, Raine and Taylor with whom we have enjoyed a close bond over the years
On the 15th of November 1992, our late brother, Jack, assembled for a picnic the largest post-WWII Australian gathering of the Burchmore clan to celebrate our ancestors who had come during the 19th century to the then brave new world of Australia, to start their new lives. Whilst a number of those picnickers have since passed, we can still remember all those that attended from the video and photos taken on that day. click here to identify the various families present
In many ways, Burchmore.net seeks to emulate the same idea of regularly assembling the Burchmore clan through the virtual electronic media of today’s world.
Our fondest hope is that on 25 May each year a large number who share our DNA join us in celebrating our heritage .
Ken and Noel
Acknowledgements:
-First and foremost Terence A..Walsh – great grandson of Wm & Emma Burchmore,
without whose research this website wouldn’t exist.
-Edgar M. Baltins for researching our other grandparent lines.
-Elizabeth Raine for her publication The Raine Family.
-John David Burchmore for initiating the website and his son John Taylor as webmaster.
-Chris Reynolds and Eric Edwards for allowing us to extract from their publications
on the Burchmores at Flamstead, Hertfordshire.