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Mark is pictured above in about 1900. The studio named on the mount was only active between 1890 and 1901. Perhaps the photograph was taken to celebrate Mark’s engagement to Jane Newbury. On her web page is a matching photo from the same studio. There is a separate page introducing more information about Mark, including his piano and wartime aeroplane construction activities and some intriguing letters from the Prime Minister's office. Family tradition has it that Mark's father, another Mark, taught the young Prince of Wales to ride at Windsor Castle and lost his job when he was found playing cards with the Prince. There is a grain of support for this in the Royal Mews Weekly Helpers List for 1847 to 1860. (Part of the Establishment Lists for Royal Mews 1717-1924). A Mark Burgess is recorded as being employed on 1st June and discharged on 2nd August, 1856. The only other facts that support the story in any way are that Mark's mother, Emma Finmore, came from a village called Clewer that is now part of Windsor and that Mark senior worked with horses. On the other hand I have not yet found him in the 1851 census and he must have met Emma somewhere before he married her, so why not where she was living, in sight of Windsor Castle? By 1861 he was a stableman in St Marylebone and in 1871 he and Emma described themselves as man and wife, although they didn't marry until 1874. By then they had four children aged between three months and ten years. Banns had previously been called in April 1871 at Christ Church, Southwark, but for some reason the wedding didn't go ahead. The family tree for the younger Mark Burgess is quite extensive now that I have traced several lines back to the eighteenth century, so I have split it into two sections; one for each parent. First, Mark Burgess himself:
now his father, also Mark Burgess:
and his mother, Emma Maryon Finmore:
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____________________________________ As several names are repeated in these trees here are some explanatory notes for the links below.
William Bray's will Hannah Jeneway
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Mark Burgess ought to have been an ostler like his father and grandfather before him. However my cousin Pete recalls being told that Mark was put off horses after having to ride barelegged. So after a brief career as a salt packer (1891 census) he took up carpentry and eventually had his own business making pianos. He chose Kramburg as a trade name because it sounded foreign; it was formed from Mark backwards and the beginning of Burgess. 
