Dominick Burke County Mayo.

Hi

Thanks for your message.

Do you have a location for the family in County Mayo?

Without a location it will be dificult to acertain if records exist for them... 

The reality of finding documentation pertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to 1800 ? particularly in rural areas ? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating 1800 may exist ? though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns to document the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of the country and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often from these registers. 

Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf

Most Catholic records are held locally - If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance - once you have established a location.

You can BROWSE information on the availability of resources & records for Co Mayo at http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/#Mayo

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Hello thankyou for your reply thats all the information I have on were they came from in Ireland I have a lot of information on their lives at Coventry Warwickshire Take Care Lynette

Hi lynette,

do you happen to know what part of Mayo they were from? I am from Portacloy north mayo, the census records for the time marked the Burkes under carrownglogh in the district of knockadaff or -duff,(anglasized versions of the names- you may also need to search for BOURKE instead of BURKE- this is common). My great grandfather was Dominick Burke borned 1871 and his father was either peter or paddy. currently i have paddy listed married to a mary coyle, but i did that many years ago and im trying to confirm that information. My Dad seems to think Dominick's father was Peter, so there lies my curriousity. I'd be really interested to see if we have a link in the family as the peter in your comment stood out to me. Please let me know, thank you Leiona