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Aet. 37 CHAUNCEY REA BURR 1862,,1923 BURES OF SUFFOLK ENGLAND AND BURR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY NEW ENGLAND BY CHAUNCEY REA BURR PH. B. (YALE), M. D. (HARVARD) NEW YORK PRIVATELY PRINTED I 9 .2 6 _One Hundred Copies Only This Copy No. 53 PRINTED BY THE ALDUS PRINTERS INC., NEW YORK CONTENTS Bures of Suffolk 1 Burr of Massachusetts Bay. 33 Evidences . 37 Illustrations: De Bures Arms and Crest .............. Frontispiece Chauncey Rea Burr ............ Second Frontispiece Sir Robert de Bures .................... Facing 3 Alice de Bryan . '"'" 9 Henry de Bures. '"'· 14 Anne Heigham . '"" 15 Lady Anne Butts. "" 20 Stourton House . '"'" 2 3 Jsaiah Bures . '"'· 26 Simon Burr's Seal . "" 34 Luther Burr . " 90 Isaac Tucker Burr . " 92 Charles Hartwell Burr. "" 99 Maps: Babergh Hundred, Suffolk. " 1 Essex ............................... 1,1, 28 Pedigree Charts: No. 1 .............................. 1,1, 1 1,1, No. 2 .......... ~ ................... :; No. 3 .............................. '' 11 No. 4 .............................. ''" 17 No. 5 .............................. "" 29 No. 6 .............................. 1,1, 33 No. 7 .............................. H 36 No. 8 . " .....................•.. · . · · · '" 36 No. 9 ........................... · · · · · "" 36 PREFACE It is now thirty--eight years since the writer began his in, quiry for his English ancestors. Very early in the investigation he came across the Heralds" Visitation of London, 16 33 .. 35, containing the pedigree of Humphrey Burre of London, "'merchant taylor,,, whose will was dated 3 July 1643. After giving the arms of this gen, tleman as "Ermine on a chief indented sable, two lions rampant or,,, the heralds add this note: "~This is the arms of Bures. But Mr. Burr sheweth an ould scocheon carved in wood and painted in cullers, nere a hundred years ould, and saith hee had it from his aunces, tors out of Somersetshire and that they did beare it. n Humphrey Burre"s father was John Bure alias John Burre of Knowle, Somersetshire (will dated 18 July 1594), son of John Burre of Norton and High Ongar, Essex (will dated 1558), son of Thomas Burre of Norton (about 1525), son of John Burre of Shellow, Essex (about 1484). The pedigree does not go higher than John Burre of Shel.­ low and does not trace descent from Bures of Suffolk. Still it is evident that at the date of the visitation, to wit: 16 3 3.. 35, there was a well defined tradition in this particular family that it descended from the ancient and honorable family of Bures of Suffolk, and in proof of this it pointed to the "'ould scocheon_,, The writer came across the same tradition in the fam11y of Thomas Burre of Barking, Essex, Gent., in 1593. He was the son of John Burre of Uphall, Barking, son of John Burre of Barking (living in 1539), son of Thomas Burre of Bark.­ ing ( will dated 23 March 1526), son of William Burre of Barking ( will dated 13 Dec. 1490), son of John Burre of Barking (living in 1496), son of Walter Burre of Barking (will dated 20 Feb. 1465). In the Heralds, Visitation of Essex, 155 3, there is an an, notation in the heralds, note,book ( preserved at the British V Museum) after the arms of Burre of Barking, to wit: ermine on a chief indented sable, two lions rampant or, as follows: ... V [ ide] Bures of Acton, Suffolk''. As both of these families in which the tradition of Bures descent existed were located in Essex, and as it was found that Simon Burr of Hingham, Mass., also came from Essex, it seemed wise to investigate thoroughly the Burrs of that county. Years were occupied in this search. The files of all the probate courts for Essex, some twelve in number, and of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury were searched for Burr wills from the beginning of each court down to the year 1640. A large number of wills was collected and collated. Other records were searched, as Inquisitions post mortem, Chancery and Common Pleas records, the Essex Shipmoney Lists, Lay Subsidies, parish registers, etc. From all these sources it became apparent that the name Burre was a common one in the county of Essex during the. XVth and XVIth centuries. The first of the name on record, is Peter Burre, lord of the manor of Waldef ord, Essex, whose inquisition post mortem is dated 1310. Another fact that emerged from a study of these records was that the name Simon Burr occurs in but three parishes in Essex, to wit: Great Canfeld, Little Canfeld, and Stisted. It occurs also at Redgrave, Suffolk. Simon Burr of Hing-­ ham, Mass., came from Stisted, and Rev. Jonathan Burre, of Dorchester, Mass., came from Redgrave. It was logical, therefore, to look for the ancestors of these men in the parish where the name Simon first occurs, viz: in Great Canfeld. The results of this search will be found incorporated in the proper place ( chart ; ) . The Bures pedigree is published at this time not because it is complete but because there seem to be no more records left to search; at least the writer knows of none. To the descendants of Simon Burr of Hingham it should be a matter of gratification that they have been given a back-­ ground. It helps them to understand themselves. They are of English blood. Their fathers did their part in founding the American Commonwealth by bringing to the shores of VI .Massachusetts Bay the English ideals of religion, justice and ~air play, and so long as the sons and daughters run true to ype in this modem world of doctrinaire ideas and experi, -nents they will not go very far wrong. CHAUNCEY REA BuRR ~-~ew York -~- Sept. 1922 VII VIRTUS HONORIS JANUA EDITOR'S NOTE Dr. Burr, who, as he says in his preface, had been engaged on his investigation of the origin of his ancestors from about the time he got his degree at Yale in 1884, was for the greater part of his life remote f ram the English sources he had to examine and so perforce did this work through the agency of other persons, of whom the late J. J. Muskett, the well,known Suffolk antiquarian, was one of the chief. For a brief period indeed after getting his medical degree at Harvard in 1888 he was in Great Britain, inteme pupil at the Rotunda Hospital at Dublin, 1888, clinical clerk at the Soho Square Hospital for Women, 1889. At this time he fell in with English members of the Cudworth family and from them got further light on his Cudworth ancestry. This gave a new stimulus to his Burr investigation, but it had to be pursued at long range, for he became physician for ner, vous diseases at the Boston (Massachusetts) Dispensary, 1892, assistant physician in the out--patient department at the Boston City Hospital, 1893, assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy, 1898, when as junior medical officer of the U.S. S. ""Monterey,, he was present at the Battle of Manila, and in 1901 he took up his residence again in Portland, Me., where the high repute of his late father Dr. Charles Hartwell Burr provided him at once with a considerable clientele which his own training and experience could not fail to augment. Be-­ sides the duties of a private practitioner he had those of ex-­ aminer at Portland of applicants for federal pensions, 1903-- 13, and of physician to the clinic for diseases of the stomach and intestines at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1903--23, and in 191 7 he became assistant medical director of the Met-­ ropolitan Life Insurance Company, thereafter dividing his time between New York and Portland. Fortunately for those persons who may eXp.mine this book the exacting demands of a busy professional life while they impeded the progress of Dr. Burr,s investigation did not alto, IX gether obstruct it, for he yet found time to direct search m the English archives and to compare and collate the product of this search. Dr. Burr was preparing his manuscript for the press when on December 24, 1923, he died at St. Barnabas Hospital, Portland, Me., after undergoing a major surgical operation. He had completed his narrative and pedigrees in what he re-­ garded as their final form and had arranged the evidences. Some of the_ descendants of Simon Burr of Hingham were desirous that Dr. Burr"s work should take a permanent form in print and I undertook to see it through the press. I have made no changes except to supply introductory headings for divisions of the narrative, thinking thus to assist the reader, to correct such clerical errors as attracted my notice, to supply some definite references to sources mentioned in the narrative, and to make some additions to the Simon Burr pedigree so as to bring it down to date. HENRY W. IiARnoN 160 Broadway, New York 10 May 1926 X BURES OF SUFFOLK From which Family probably descended Simon Burr of Hingham in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1645 Chart I BURES OF SUFFOLK ARMS: Ermine on a chief indented sable, two lions rampant or. CREST: A Wyvern sable. MoTTo: Virtus Honoris Janua. BALDWIN DE BUR.BS of Suffolk, temp. Ric. I (Rotuli ~uriae Regis), Anno Domini II9l• T CEOFFREY DE BURES WILUAM DE BUR.ES ••fit Baldwini de Bures," granted to the Priory of Stoke a "'fil. Baldwini de Bures" (Reg. de Stoke, p. 75, tenement in Bures, Suffolk (R~. de Stoke, p. 71, fo. 126). fo. 126). _ T LUCIA WALTlill DE BUllES ROBERT DE BURES '"fil. Galfridi fil. Baldwini de Bures,•• m. "fil. Willi. fil. Baldwini de Bures," granted to the named as brother in fore• DE BODEBROC Priory of Stoke v acres of land in Bures (Reg.

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