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Anne--
You asked about the Burnsides' Scots origins. An old Irish genealogy, John O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" (1892), says on p. 690: "John Wallace, of Whitlaw, in the county of Ayrhit, Scotland, resided, A.D., 1580, on the side of a 'burn' (or river); and to distinguish him from others of the same name, was surnamed Burnside, which has since been the name of his successors."
O'Hart goes on to say that John Wallace had a son, Robert Burnside, "who in the 'Plantation of Ulster' settled at Raphoe, in 1608; and who, soon after the Civil War of 1641, removed to Corcreevy, county Tyrone."
My father, as a boy, was told by aunts that our name was originally Wallace and that we came from Scotland, where we lived beside a burn. So all this seems to tally. But I don't have enough real evidence to conclude that we are the Burnsides O'Hart was writing about.
Gordon
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