There is no conclusive evidence where or when William met his first wife, Mary Ann Culf [i] but they were married on the Wednesday, 21st May 1862 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel [ii] on Saville Street, in New Malton. The officiating minister was Joseph Sykes who at the time of the 1861 Census was living …
Read More 4c. William’s wedding to Mary Ann Culf in 1862
In 1887 William Hall Burnett moved with his family from Middlesbrough to Blackburn to take up the post of Editor of the Blackburn Standard. He instigated a regular feature on the back page (page 8) of The Weekly Standard and Express Newspaper which initially was entitled ‘Passing notes and Gossip’ – as it developed he …
Read More William Hall Burnett’s visit to John Ruskin at Brantwood, 1893This post describes the relationship between William and the mill-girl poet Ethel Carnie. I am grateful for the interest shown by Roger Smalley and for sending me copies of material concerning Ethel Carnie and William from the Blackburn Library (see Bibliography). Roger has documented the political life of Ethel Carnie in ‘Breaking the Bonds of …
Read More William Hall Burnett and the mill girl poet, Ethel Carnie