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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Ellen Burke: Birth: 21 JAN 1881 in Askill, Ballyshannon, County Donnegal, Ireland. Death: 10 SEP 1953 in Benson, Minnesota

  2. Letitia Agnes Burke: Birth: 10 JUN 1881 in Ireland. Death: 13 JUN 1958 in Ireland

  3. Patrick Thomas Burke: Birth: 3 MAR 1883 in Ireland. Death: 9 JUL 1944 in Askill, Balyshannon, Ireland

  4. James Joseph Burke: Birth: 22 JUN 1885 in Ireland. Death: 1895

  5. Elizabeth Ann Burke: Birth: 1 SEP 1887 in Ireland. Death: 13 AUG 1904 in Ireland

  6. Catherine Bridget Burke: Birth: 25 FEB 1889 in Askill, County Leitrim, Ireland. Death: 28 SEP 1947 in Derryherk, County Leitrim, Ireland

  7. Teresa Margaret Burke: Birth: 27 JAN 1891 in Ireland. Death: 20 JUN 1966 in USA

  8. Honora Josephine Burke: Birth: 16 APR 1893 in Askill, County Leitrim, Ireland. Death: 5 NOV 1970 in USA

  9. John Francis Burke: Birth: 22 SEP 1895 in Askill, County Leitrim, Ireland. Death: 25 NOV 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska

  10. Cecilia Rose Burke: Birth: 13 FEB 1899 in Ireland. Death: 17 DEC 1957 in Chicago, Illinois


Notes
a. Note:   MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: Obtained by informant from Office - Carrick on Shannon on July 7, 1987.
 The marriage of JOHN BURKE and MARGARET CASSIDY was solemnized at the Catholic Chapel of Kinlough in the Registrar's District of Kinlough in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Ballyshannon in the County of Leitrim, Ireland on February 24, 1879.
  JOHN BURKE was of full age, Bachelor, Farmer, Residence at the time of marriage was Askill, Father's name and profession: Tom Burke, a farmer.
  MARGARET CASSIDY was 19 years, Spinster, Rank or Profession: Do (?), Residence at the time of marriage was Townytallan, Father's name and profession: Mick Cassidy, Do(?) Married by Bernard Sheridan, witnessed by James McGowan & Anne Jane Coriggan. Her signature shown as: Maggret Cassidy on Marriage Certificate. Registrar's spelling of her name in the certificate: Margret Cassidy.
  DEATH CERTIFICATE: Obtained from Office - Carrick on Shannon on July 7, 1987
 JOHN BURKE - Date and Place of Death = 9 - 12 - 1897, Askill. Married at time of death. Age last birthday = 66 years, Occupation Farmer, Certified cause of death = Syncope, Certificate received from James Carroll, Coroner of County Leitrim, Inquest held 9-14-1898 at Askill.
  County Leitrim:
 County Leitrim (Irish: Contae Liatroma) is one of the counties of the island of Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland and is part of the province of Connacht, in the west of the island. Its name derives from the Irish Liath Druim � "grey ridge."
  Leitrim has a short length of Atlantic coastline but is mostly inland country. Neighbouring Leitrim are the Ulster counties of Donegal to the north, Fermanagh to the northeast, and Cavan to the east, the Leinster county of Longford to the south and, to the west, the Connacht counties of Roscommon and Sligo. Fermanagh is in Northern Ireland while all the other neighbouring counties are within the republic. The River Shannon and Lough Allen divide Leitrim into North Leitrim and South Leitrim.
  In ancient times Leitrim formed the western half of the kingdom of Breifne. This region was long influenced by the O'Rourke family of Dromahair, whose heraldic lion occupies the official county crest to this day. Close ties initially existed with East Breifne, now County Cavan, and the O'Reilly clan seated there. The Anglo-Normans invaded in the thirteenth century and occupied the south of Breifne until the exile of Irish landholders in 1620.
  British Lord Deputy Sir John Perrot had ordered the legal establishment of "Leitrim County" a half-century prior, in 1565. Perrott also demarked the current county borders around 1583, enclosing the namesake grey mountains of the northwest and boggy glades of the southeast. Five forests are traditionally said to have stood in Leitrim up till the seventeenth century. Today's vast marshes likely formed soon after the county's trees were felled. Dampness quickly permeated the area's reputation: locals boasted that farmland "wasn't sold by the acre--it was sold by the gallon!". With such soil suitable solely for cows and potatoes, Leitrim's 155,000 residents (1841 census) were ravaged by the Potato Famine. After sixty years, the wounds had started to heal. William Butler Yeats spent the turn of the twentieth century fascinated with Lough Allen and the Sligo-march.
  Today the county has the lowest population and the lowest population density in the Republic and is the second smallest county by area after Louth. Leitrim has the shortest coastline of any maritime county, two miles to the south-west of Bundoran. The county town is Carrick-on-Shannon (1,868 inhabitants). In 2003 the first sets of traffic lights in Leitrim were installed in Carrick-on-Shannon.


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