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Family of Patrick Burt and Jane Sheen

Husband: Patrick Burt (c. 1770-bef1836)
Wife: Jane Sheen (1771-1850)
Children: Robert Forbes Burt (1795-1875)
Patrick Henry Burt (1797-1836)
Henry Ogilvy Burt (1800- )
Marriage 1794 Bombay, India

Husband: Patrick Burt

Name: Patrick Burt
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth c. 1770
Occupation 22 Apr 1797 (age 26-27) Captain in the East India service
Occupation 1800 (age 29-30) Captain, "Duke of Montrose", 762 tons (Register of East India Ships, 1800-1)
Death bef 1836 (age 65-66)

Wife: Jane Sheen

Name: Jane Sheen
Sex: Female
Father: Samuel Sheen ( - )
Mother: Sibella Brinkhurst ( - )
Birth 12 Jan 1771 London
Baptism 11 Feb 1771 (age 0) Saint Benet Pauls Wharf, London (mother named as Isabella)
Residence 1836 (age 64-65) 6 East India Company’s Buildings, Poplar, Middlesex
Census 1841 (age 69-70) Pensioner, No.6 Poplar Hospital
Residence 1850 (age 78-79) EICC, Poplar
Death fact 1850 (age 78-79) 1850 Sep Q, Poplar, 2/222
Death 1850 (age 78-79) Poplar, Middlesex
Burial 1 Aug 1850 All Saints, Poplar, Middlesex (aged 79)

Child 1: Robert Forbes Burt

Name: Robert Forbes Burt
Sex: Male
Spouse: Eliza Rachel Miles (c. 1832-1879)
Birth 10 Nov 1795 London
Baptism 22 Apr 1797 (age 1) St Alphege, Greenwich, Kent
Census 1841 (age 45-46) Living with mother, no occupation indicated
Census 1861 (age 65-66) Fund holder, 5 Wordslock Villa, Stratford, West Ham
Occupation "Gentleman" on daughter Eliza's marriage cert., 12.7.1898
Census 1871 (age 75-76) Clerk, inmate, Essex District Lunatic Asylum, South Weald, Essex (married)
Death fact 1875 (age 79-80) 1875 Dec Q, Billericay, 4a/126 (aged 80)
Death 1875 (age 79-80) Billericay, Essex

Child 2: Patrick Henry Burt

Name: Patrick Henry Burt
Sex: Male
Birth 30 Nov 1797 Greenwich, Kent
Baptism 13 Jan 1798 (age 0) St Alphege, Greenwich, Kent
Occupation 22 Jul 1830 (age 32) Appointed Lieutenant, Royal Navy (The Navy List)
Death 22 Mar 1836 (age 38)

Child 3: Henry Ogilvy Burt

Name: Henry Ogilvy Burt
Sex: Male
Birth 28 Sep 1800 Greenwich, Kent
Baptism 15 Nov 1800 (age 0) St Alphege, Greenwich, Kent

Note on Husband: Patrick Burt - shared note

In Dear Jane (Chapter 4, page 35) mention is made of John Wordsworth’s ship, The Duke of Montrose, being on the South Devon coast, "by a series of delays .. had to put into Torbay ... in July (1797) and was kept there by adverse winds till September, eight weeks of enforced idleness." Research has revealed that the ship began the journey from the Downs in May, round to Portsmouth, on its way to India.

The crew of the ship, however, were anxious about the sea-worthiness of the vessel, and ugly rumours were spreading among the crew, and when it was time to leave Portsmouth on June 5th, they refused to comply with the order to weigh anchor until the leak they complained of was dealt with. Captain Patrick Burt, in command of the vessel, attempted to argue with the men that all was well, and when that failed, he tried to sail with the help of the passengers (an idea which the crew thought of with contempt). They became increasingly mutinous - and one of the passengers, Charles William Johnson (a young man who was on his way to take up an appointment in Calcutta), may have tried to help the Captain - and was threatened by the mutineers. But (as we are told by his son, years later in his account of his father’s experience) his life was saved by the action of the 2nd Mate, John Wordsworth, who quelled the mutiny and saved Charles Johnson’s life thereby. About twenty "disaffected" and "refractory" seamen were sent ashore by the Company’s Surveyor, who came on board and announced that the leak was not important! - a mere inch an hour. It was later to become thirteen inches.

Source: Constance Pilgrim, "The Unknown Lover"

http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number9/pilgrim.htm (accessed 26.12.2009)

Note: The John Wordsworth referred to here, the younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth, is supposed to be the "unknown lover" of Jane Austen. It is supposed that they met at Torbay in the summer of 1797. The Charles William Johnson whose life was saved was related to Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great eighteenth-century portrait painter, by the marriage of his uncle, William Johnson, of Great Torrington, North Devon, to Sir Joshua’s sister, Elizabeth Reynolds. Sir Joshua had helped the young man to his appointment in Calcutta by introducing him to Warren Hastings.

 

H. C. S. Duke of Montrose, Captain Patrick Burt. In 1797, after the mutiny in the navy, on her passage from England to Madras and Bengal, a very determined mutiny broke out on board this ship, which was owing to a previous slate of lax discipline and ill-timed forbearance. Captain Burt was exceedingly averse to flogging, and several serious offences passed without due severity; at length, for the preservation of any thing like discipline, it became absolutely necessary to punish a seaman at the gangway. On the following day, the whole ship's company refused to do their duty, and would not go upon deck : they unshipped the ladders, and took possession of the gun-deck. Captain Burt sent his officers down, armed, to force the crew to obedience. Messrs. Mac Taggart, Wordsworth, and Buchannan, the first, second, and third officers, followed by others, rushed forward, and found the mutineers training one of the guns, with the intention to point it aft, against captain and officers; the poker in the galley-fire, to serve as a match ; (the galley in the Montrose was below). When Mr. Mac Taggart reached the fore-hatchway, he heard one of the ringleaders declare, "Now's the time! bear a hand ! and let's have a slap at them b_____y b_____rs !" He instantly drew his sword, and cut the fellow down. The ship's company immediately surrendered. The prompt and determined spirit evinced by Mr. MacTaggart and his brother-officers averted more alarming consequences ; and this circumstance strongly proves that a decisive blow and a resolute show of firmness never fail to subdue open and declared mutiny.

Christopher Biden, Naval Discipline: Subordination contrasted with insubordination, London, 1830, p.328