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Cousin Anne--
The Robert Burnside you corresponded with in 1990 was probably my father. Like you, I would like to learn more about Catherine McAllister. Family legend says that she and John married secretly, apparently because of their differing religions, but that once James Sr. learned about it he told John, "Bring Kitty home."
My father says aunts told him that we were originally from Co. Tyrone. (I've written to an organization in Tyrone about this, but so far haven't heard from them.) Some old letters I've seen say the Burnsides came from Antrim; one, I seem to recall, said Catherine McAllister was from a town called Ballymoney in Co. Antrim.
Please tell me more about Samuel. My records say he died in 1907. I assumed he died in California, but now see I was wrong. Was he living in Silver City, CO, when he died? Clinton County records seem to indicate that he was still farming there as late as 1892. Do you know why he left Illinois or what he did after moving West.
He must have been an interesting man. According to an 1886 history of Clinton County, Samuel Burnside was at one time a member of the state legislature and a founding deacon of Irishtown's short-lived Presbyterian church.
Gordon
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