Elizabeth (Alexander) Burnside (1777 - 1855)

Born 3 Dec 1777 in Union, Greenbrier, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Burnside — married about 5 Apr 1797 in Greenbrier, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1855 at age 77 in Virginia, United States [uncertain]

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Discrepancies

Name

Known by both -- Burnside(s), Byrnside(s) -

Dates

Several discrepancies found between the Bios, published histories and published court records, which may account for date/event discrepancies. No original source records have been located to confirm birth or marriage records. It appears that some erroneous information may have been published, and perhaps republished/reported, making the “actual facts” obscure . Further research/clarification needed before taken as "fact".

Biography

Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of James and Isabella Erskine. ^[1] was born Dec 1 1777 ^[2]

Elizabeth married John Burnside (Byrnside), son of James and Isabella Patterson, about 1797. ^{[3] [4]}

Elizabeth died about 1853^[5]

Children

5 known children.

More research is required, but probable Children of John Byrnside and Elizabeth Alexander as published in Monroe History (p.319), and as recorded and summarized by Bertha Lewis Clark (a great granddaughter of John and Elizabeth. (All marriages recorded at Union, Monroe Co., VA. - film available at the LDS Family History Library that she compiled (together with Otis Young) about the Burnsides/Byrnsides of Virginia/West Virginia and of the Upper Greenbrier.

Issac Byrnside (2/21/1798-8/30/1840) m. Mary D. Van Stavern 7/2/1822
Jane Byrnside (4/6/1800)-m. Andrew Alexander 6/24/1821
Elizabeth (Eliza) Byrnside (5/16/1802-1865 m. Thomas Edgar, Sr. 5/14/1821
Juliana Byrnside 3/3/1804-8/4/1860) m. Absolom Bollinger 1822
John Byrnside, Jr. (6/9/1808---3/8/1836)
James Madison Byrnside (4/9/1814-3/31/1878) m. Eliza Peters 7/3/1833

Sources

1. ↑ A History of Monroe (p.300)
2. ↑ "Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZ7L-TQM : accessed 12 December 2014), Elizabeth Alexander Byrnside, 01 Dec 1777; Birth, citing Virginia, United States, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
3. ↑ Greenbrier Historical Society's Marriages
4. ↑ Shuck, Larry G. (Larry Gorden). Greenbrier County marriages, 1782-1900 : in three volumes. (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Company, c1991).
5. ↑ CD #520 Early WV Settlers, 1600's-1900's, WV Estate Settlements.

• A History of Monroe County West Virginia, by Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 318-319 (MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA; Digitized at Internet Archives
• Annals of Bath County, Virginia, by Oren F. Morton, pg. 190 ; Digitized at Internet Archives

• Source: Clark, Bertha L,, The Erskine Family of Monroe County, Virginia, Manuscript 1931-38; Transcribed 1959 by Margaret Byrnside Ballard

See Also

• VA Notes
• Lyman Chalkley's three-volume Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (Rosslyn, Va., 1912-1913; reprint, 1965) is a popular reference work that contains abstracts taken from the Augusta County court records. Chalkley's Chronicles may serve as a useful source for leads and to identify original records to consult, but there are many reasons to exercise caution when using it.

Chalkley’s Augusta County Records
Chalkey's Online at Internet Archives
Chalkey's Online at Rootsweb