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Just discovered that my great grandfather was Edward Henry O'Rourke not Albert who was another family member. He/they left Ireland , I don't know where from, in 1885  and came to live in Kentish Town north London. My grandfather Herbert Arthur O'Rourke was born   either in London or Ireland around that time. There is no birth record for him in either place. He married my grandmother in London on 11th September 1909. Herbert joined the Royal Irish Rifles, 15th Bt, and died on 22 November 1917 aged 32, in France.

That's about all I know. Any further help would be most appreciated

thanks 

warren pugh

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I searched for Herbert O'Rourke on rootsireland and found the following 1877 baptism of a Herbert "Rokie" in Sligo. However, this Herbert's father was Robert, not Edward.

Herbert Arthur Rokie
Birth: 14-Jun-1877
Baptism: 26-Jun-1877
Address: Belfast
Parish/District: ST. JOHNS UNION
Co. Sligo
Church Of Ireland
Father: Robert, In Timber Trade
Mother: Jane

CHILDS FULL NAME IS HERBERT ARTHUR CECIL ROKIE.
FULL ADDRESS IS 45 BALMORAL, BELFAST.

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