burke from waterford
Burke Family from Waterford. Need information to break down a brick wall in my family history. John Burke born 1859 (family oral history have mantained it was Waterford) His mother was Elizabeth born roughly 1839 and father John born about the same year. The first documentation we have on Elizabeth and her husband was when they first came to Liverpool, and Elizabeth sought relief in the workhouse with her son because of a fever. That was 1870 and she is on the 1871 census with her sister Sarah Connor in Liverpool. John worked in a Boarding House. Elizabeth's and John's son was in the Merchant Navy and I believe he returned to Ireland many times. On Elizabeth's death cert. it states that her husband was Michael, I presume it was Michael John or John Michael as that name was passed down.