Barnet Burns [SEP] country of citizenship
in several provincial theatres. Here he married an Englishwoman who accompanied him to New Zealand, but she eloped with a Yankee sailor, because the tattooed actor's old Maori wife met him and obtained an influence over him the white woman could not combat."" There are several similarities between this Pākehā Māori and Barnet Burns to suggest that they might be the same person.
Marriage to Mrs Rosina Crowther.
The United Kingdom Census 1841 recorded the occupants of every UK household on the night of 6 June 1841 when Barnet
one of Burns' lectures by publicly denouncing him as a fraud.
By 1847 Barnet Burns had a manager, Lionel Violet Gyngell who announced appearances by Barnet and Rosina Burns during a tour that included Hawkstone Hall, Shrewsbury, Welshpool, Oswestry and Ellesmere.
Editions of Burns' booklet continued to be published where he lectured on his travels through Britain. The 1848 Kendal edition includes a stylised picture of Barnet Burns carrying the head of a tattooed Māori chief. On their tour "Pahe-a-Range" and "