 He was the son of James Burton, canon of Christ Church, Oxford and chaplain to George III and George IV.Charles William Burton died at Mirzapur in 1816 and decades later, his and Mary Anne's son, Major Charles Aeneas Burton, was murdered together with his two sons at Kotah in 1857, during the Indian mutiny.It is also known that three other Indian-born daughters returned with Gilchrist to Britain