MESSAGE FROM CHRIS HILL

Please refer to the following message I received on Genes Reunited on 2 Apr 2008. Can anyone shed any light on the queries raised?:

Hi Nic,
Sorry for the delay in replying but I have been a bit tied with alterations to the house.
So you are from the Mildon side of the Burnetts. Like your ancestors mine too lived at the Ridge Farms. My gt grandfather Frederick burnett, was born at Ridge Farm, and in 1851 was living at Haydon Farm with his parents and siblings.
Have you been to visit any of the Burnett Farms or seen St Bartholomews Church? My husband and I stopped there on the way home form the Eden Project in Cornwall in 2006. It felt quite strange standing in the graveyard with so many gravestones of the Burnetts and their children. I did manage to find Haydon Farm, and was kindly allowed to look inside by the owner. I also saw the farm track to Catelake, but there was a tractor or something blocking the way so I could not go any further. Sadly as it was getting pretty late and we still had quite a way to go to get home, we didnt have time to look for Ridge Farm, but I would have loved to have seen it. I know Mary Burnett was left East Ridge Farm in her father Robert's will of 1841, and at her death it was to go to Robert Mildon.
I know Robert was at East Ridge in 1861c with his wife Amelia and their children, and at West Ridge in 1881c and Lower Ridge in 1891c. Do you know if all these farms are the same farm, but divided up, and what happened to them. Did they pass onto other family members or sold, I would love to know?
Regards,
Chris