Burgess, Mercy Elizabeth (b. 28 DEC 1831, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Note: 1910: Census, Wareham, Plymouth, MA

1880: Census, Wareham, Plymouth, MA

1870: Census, Wareham, Plymouth, MA

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Note: 1880: Census, Living with her daughter Lucy

Note: 1900: Census, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, district 7, living withdaughter Mary

1910: Census, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts. living with daughter Mary and Grandson Earl F Sears

Note: 1870: Census, Dennis, Barnstable, Mass

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Note: married 2nd wife, Eliza Joy, daughter of Edward C. and Eliza Joy; married 3rd wife, Marietta Starbuck, when he was aged 57 and she was 45. Walter was the child of his first wife Susan Ryder. David and his brother ran D.W. & R.E. Burgess & Sons meat market on Main Street at the corner of Center Street. Each brother had two sons, and reference to D.W. Burgess & Sons was found related to David's retirement in 1917. David is buried in the Joy Lot in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Shoemaker

Occupation: Date: 1870
Place: Butcher

Occupation: Date: 1900
Place: Butcher

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Note: Walter was only seven years old when his mother, Susan Ryder, died at age 25. Walter's father married a second time, her name is not known. His father, David, owned with his brother R.E. Burgess, a meat market on Main Street in Nantucket. It was known as the D.W. & R.E. Burgess & Sons Market. Each brother had two sons. After Eliza Barney's death, Walter married Annie Bennett in 1915 in Cranston, R.I. They lived in Nantucket. His twin grandaughters were 3 years old. Walter's brother, Charles, owned a poultry farm in Polpis, Nantucket, and left it to Walter when he died. Walter deeded it to Ward Winfred Battelle and his daughter, Linda Burgess Battelle (Ward's wife). They lived there for several years with their twin daughters, Miriam and Rachel. The farmhouse is owned now (1997) by a Mrs. Harter. It is located on the Polpis Road not far from the Life Saving Station, and is called Canopache. Miriam and Rachel started school there in the Polpis Schoolhouse. Ward could not make a success of the farm, and the family moved off island. They ultimately settled on the estate of Ward's parents in Dover, MA on Farm Street. Walter is buried in the Joy family lot with his second wife Annie Bennett in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket near the Milk Street gate entrance.

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusettes

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts