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Unfortunately Delaney / Devanney /Flynn are common names, and as we don't know what the mother's surname might have been, we can't tell if he had more children in England/Wales under those names or not.

That's assuming their births would be registered under one of his surnames.

But if he had illegitimate children, they would likely be registered under the mother's surname, and therefore impossible to spot.

Parents were Algernon & Florence. Algernon is in several trees here.

Edit: John is on several trees on Ancestry with a marriage to JT.

John A Burningham
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: John A Burningham
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 14 Mar 1935
Residence Date: 1939
Address: Burcombe
Residence Place: Chichester, Sussex, England
Occupation: Under School Age
Line Number: 40
Schedule Number: 340
Sub Schedule Number: 5
Enumeration District: Eneg
Borough: Chichester
Registration district: 86-3
Inferred Father:
Algernon D Burningham
Inferred Mother:
Florence F Burningham
Household Members Age
Algernon D Burningham 30
Florence F Burningham 27
Gordon Donald Burningham 9
This record is officially closed.
John A Burningham 4


Married as BurMingham (possibly just a spelling mistake on the GRO Index) in Chichester reg district in 1955.
Seven children between 1955 and 1969.

???

Births Jun 1935
Burningham John A Coomber Chichester 2b 529

Bognor was in Chichester reg district.

Welcome to the boards.

Normally we would advise people to look at search members trees but his death is reasonably recent.

Have a look at www.freebmd.org.uk to see if you can find an English/ Welsh marriage. If you do you can then look for the children with that mothers maiden name.

Finally see if you can check him out in local papers as his court appearances may have been written up.

Edit: A John A Burningham, mmn Coomber, was registered in Chichester in 1935

Hi

I recently found out my father who we knew as John Stephen Devaney had changed his identity and was actually called John Algernon Burningham.

He told my mother and my two brothers his name was John stephen devaney and he was sent from Ireland as a baby and put in a childrens home in London.

It’s only recent we have found out his real name and that he was infact married before my mother and has several children we didn’t know about. He also has children to other women around the same time in thr 60’s. Apparently he also used to go by the name Devanney, Delaney, flynn and used the first name stephen sometimes. He was born in Bognor Regis in 1935 and stayed around that area until the last 60’s. We also found out he was in and out of prison for petty crimes which is why we are guessing he changed his name - as he didn’t want to be found. He also had connections to devon, birmingham, Somerset and Bradford. I have also been told he spent a lot of time in Ireland. He died in 2006 and my mother died in 2018 so we are trying to find out anything we can or if he has more children.


If anyone has any info please get in touch