Rev. William Godfrey Pollard Burton

Resident clergyman, whose family returned to England after his death. Rector of St Thomas-in-the-Vale, Jamaica, from 18/09/1816 until his death 29/07/1847.

1. Died at Spanish Town July 29 1847 for 32 years the rector of St Thomas-in-the-Vale; second son of Rev. W. Burton, formerly Rector of Faccombe cum Tangley Hants and afterwards of Falmouth Trelawney Jamaica [and of Harriet Burton (d. 1847)].

2. Burton's widow Elizabeth R[odon] Burton appears aged 43 in the 1851 census as clegyman's widow and schoolmistress of Tiverton Devon, with nine children aged 7 to 23 all born Jamaica (7 born at Wookey).

T71/855 St Thomas-in-the-Vale nos. 308 and 309.

1. Gentleman’s Magazine, Deaths – 1847 – July 29. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, the Rev. W. G. P. Burton, for 32 [31] years Rector of St. Thomas in the Vale. He was the second son of the Rev. W. Burton, formerly Rector of Faccombe cum Tangley, Hants, and afterwards of Falmouth Trelawney, Jamaica.‘The Patrician’ edited by John Burke, Esq, author of the ‘The Peerage’ – Vol. III, published 1847 – Deaths – 1847 – Burton, Mrs. Harriet, widow of the late Rev. William Burton, formerly rector of Faccombe cum Tangley, Hants, and afterwards rector of Trelawney, in the island of Jamaica, in the Cloisters, Windsor Castle, aged 78, 11th Feb.

2. 1851 census online; Jamaican Royal Gazette, Sat, 19 March 1825, p. 23 – Married – At River Head Estate, St Thomas in the Vale, by Rev Lewis Bowerbank, Rev W G Burton to Elizabeth Rodon, eldest daughter of Wm Lord, Esq.

We are grateful to Mary Mill for her help with this entry.