Wow, I’ve come to the right place :]
Thank you so much McCoy! There’s some good leads to investigate.
And those marriage transcripts are more detailed than the ones we have.. very interesting that they have Ann’s birth year 1831..
Also, is it weird that those transcripts have heaps more details than the actual marriage record that I have!?
Have nearly gone cross-eyed trying, but haven’t been able to pinpoint their arrival.. they don’t appear to have arrived together.. there are several ‘contenders’ for both of them arriving separately in Adelaide around that time, and dozens more throughout Australia :/
Patrick died at Little Sisters of the Poor in 1940, and they have his mother listed as MARY Healy.. I’ve had to put this down to being a record oddity, because every other record says ANN.. (but have certainly checked also out every Mary Healy going, to no avail)
Thanks for your thoughts Roger McDonnell.. We have circumstantial evidence pointing to Burke origins in Limerick, but also some suggesting Tipperary.. and family lore says Kerry, though that could be further back!
Have been busy crunching the DNA using dad’s results..
[ GEDmatch kit PG8151464, if any Burkey people read this and want to check :]
DNA has already helped, we wouldn’t know as much as we do without it.. but still learning really.. and of course the DNA throws out just as many questions as answers!
Patricia, that is probably our “preferred’ Ann Healy, but sooo hard to know..
