The Burnyeat Families of Whitehaven and District

by Nev. Ramsden

The Burnyeat Family

This article attempts to show how the descendants of one man, Phillip Burnyeat, who was the son of a yeoman farmer from a west coast Lakeland valley, came to Whitehaven in about 1770. Here he prospered. His descendants, like many other people from west Cumberland, went on to leave their County and make their way elsewhere in the world.

There are over 150 direct descendants that can be identified by the year 1900, of whom 110 are mentioned in the time-line below

The majority of the information concerning people who may be still alive has been taken from the WWW, and is therefore freely available for people to use.