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Note: schoolmaster, then surveyor mapped roads in Kingston Peninsula, NB, Canada may have come from Ulster
However, County Monaghan and Dublin have had the surname Burnett since mid 1700s, also first Presbyterian church established County Monaghan by Scots Covenantors in 1697 -source Brian McCord, Ulster Scots mailing list, CANADIAN-ULSTER-SCOTS-L@rootsweb.com
There is a Robert Burnett of Springfield listed as marrying a Clara Colpitts, d/o John W. on 1 Apr 1864-any connection?
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gravestones Irish Settlement Road Author: Diane Campbell Date: 8 Apr 2006 1:36 AM GMT Surnames: Burnett, Gordon, Wilson, Hickson Classification: Cemetery In 1962 while visiting my grandparents Thomas and Mary Thomson in Belleisle Creek, NB, my mother remembered there was a graveyard along the road from the MacFadyan home. It was very overgrown even then but I was given the job of typing up our findings that day and I have just come across them:
1. In memory of Alexander Burnett who died March 29, 1865, aged 71 years.
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