Bessie Patterson Butler was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1869 to Robert Butler and Georgina Cleare Butler.
She married Nigel Bruce Burnside, son of John Benjamin Burnside and Elizabeth Susannah Weech Burnside, in Nassau, 25 July 1891. The couple had children - three sons, Robert Nigel Audley, John, and Basil, and a daughter, Sybil Burnside.
A Bahamas Government Civil Servant, Nigel held the positions of - among others - clerk, Legislative Council, Auditor General, and Acting Colonial Secretary.
Bessie Patterson Butler Burnside died in the Bahama Islands 20 May 1940 at 71 years of age. She was buried at The Western Cemetery, Nassau, with her husband.
Caribbean, Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Father: Robert Butler. Mother: Georgiana Clare. FHL Film Number: 222940.
"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLMR-FQM : 27 November 2014), Robert Butler in entry for Bessie Pattison Butler, 12 Jan 1869; citing St. Matthew, Bahamas, reference 6; FHL microfilm 222,940.
St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Nassau, Bahamas Birth and Baptism Records,1869.
Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men ..., Volume 16 edited by Charles Whately Parker, Barnet M. Greene, page 474. Marriage date of the Burnsides.
New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Roll T715, 1897-1957, 5001-6000, Roll 5815.
Find A Grave Memorial# 88684847. Created by: AMC. Record added: Apr 17, 2012.
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