BURNARD OF LUXULYAN
The marriage of Thomas Gilles and Constance is recorded at Luxulyan in 1667. The surnames of the brides are not given in the parish registers in that period but the 1701 will of Christopher Burnard of Luxulyan names, among others, “my Sister Constance Gyles”.[1]
The will of the older Christopher Burnard (buried 1620) mentions his brother John Burnard and the poor of Blisland, perhaps indicating an origin in that parish where records of many Burnards can be found. The testator also mentions his brother-in-law Thomas Hornabrook of Lanivet.[2] The will of a Thomas Hornabrook of Lanivet was written and proved in 1622.[3]
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BURNARD
1 CHRISTOPHER BURNARD of Luxulyan, Cornwall, was buried on 6 November 1620 at Luxulyan.[4]
Children
of Christopher Burnard:
i CONSTANCE
BURNARD.
ii ALICE
BURNARD; m HORNABROOK.[5]
iii JOAN
BURNARD, bur 9 Apr 1629, Luxulyan;[6] m 13
Apr 1619, Luxulyan, RICHARD VEALE.[7]
iv RICHARD
BURNARD, bap 2 Feb 1595/96, Luxulyan,[8]
bur 21 Apr 1596, Luxulyan.[9]
2 v WALTER
BURNARD (1600-1657); m KATHERINE.
vi JOHN
BURNARD, bap 23 May 1602, Luxulyan.[10]
vii ELIZABETH
BURNARD, bap 24 Jun 1604, Luxulyan.[11]
2 WALTER BURNARD of Luxulyan was baptised on 15 June 1600 at Luxulyan[12] and buried on 5 August 1657 at Luxulyan.[13] He married on 12 June 1625 at Luxulyan, KATHERINE.[14] She was buried on 10 November 1682 at Luxulyan.[15]
Children
of Walter and Katherine Burnard:
i KATHERINE
BURNARD, bap 22 Oct 1626, Luxulyan;[16] m
29 Apr 1662, Luxulyan, PETER SYMONS.[17]
ii CHRISTOPHER
BURNARD of Luxulyan, husbandman, bap 22 Mar 1628/29, Luxulyan,[18] d
ca 1705.[19]
iii CONSTANCE
BURNARD, bap 3 Aug 1634, Luxulyan,[20]
bur 25 Dec 1711, Luxulyan;[21] m
18 Nov 1667, Luxulyan, THOMAS GILES[22]
(see here).
iv JOAN
BURNARD, bap 25 Jun 1637, Luxulyan,[23]
bur 30 Aug 1665, Luxulyan.[24]
[4] Luxulyan parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/572.
[6] Luxulyan parish registers.
[7] Luxulyan parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/572.
[8] Luxulyan parish registers. The son’s name is not given in the baptism entry but is presumed here to be the Richard buried shortly afterwards. In any case, Christopher’s will describes Walter as the testator’s eldest son.
[9] Luxulyan parish registers; transcripts of Luxulyan parish registers by Reginald M. Glencross.
[10] Luxulyan parish registers.
[11] Luxulyan parish registers.
[12] Luxulyan parish registers.
[13] Luxulyan parish registers.
[14] Luxulyan parish registers.
[15] Luxulyan parish registers.
[16] Luxulyan parish registers.
[17] Luxulyan parish registers. The 1701 will of Christopher Burnard makes a Peter Symons his executor and appoints “my beloved friend John Symons”, father of Peter, as guardian and trustee. The probate documents indicate that Peter was a nephew of Christopher, but this is implausible chronologically as Peter was not baptised until 1699. His parents John Symons and Mary Gatty were married at Luxulyan in 1698/99. Mary was baptised at Tywardreath in 1673, daughter of Nicholas and Wilmot (Grose) Gatty. John was baptised at Luxulyan in 1663, son of Peter and Katherine Symons. The record of the marriage of Peter and Katherine in 1662 does not give the bride’s surname but seemingly she was Katherine Burnard, sister of Christopher, making the younger Peter Symons (the child appointed executor in 1701) a grandnephew of Christopher.
[18] Luxulyan parish registers.
[20] Luxulyan parish registers.
[21] Luxulyan parish registers.
[22] Luxulyan parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/2675.
[23] Luxulyan parish registers.
[24] Luxulyan parish registers; Luxulyan bishop’s transcripts.