BURKE, Thomas & FRANCIS, Sabina - missing marriage

[taramcdsmall]

Ballindooley Castle (which is for sale) !!!

http://www.formerglory.ie/property-ballindooleycastle.html

Tara

[NJ Holmes]

*Gobsmacked*

Wow. What an amazing, interesting and revealing group of responses. Thank you Tara!

You know, I have somewhere in my records a suggestion Mary BURKE's maiden name was CONNELL, not CONNOR. You have confirmed the rumour! Thank you again.

I will have to sift through all of this. You have given me a lot to keep me busy

Thanks
Nik

[taramcdsmall]

No probs Nik

Glad to be able to help !

Tara

[NJ Holmes]

Right.... having gone through all of this I have found something new from the NZ records. I found a newspaper article which I thought was about the death of Sabina (nee Francis) but was in fact another Sabina whose maiden name was Burke and appears connected to our Burkes by marriage:

 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=BH18960915.2.10&l=mi&e=-------10--1----2--

From this I gather that the aforementioned Toby Burke (b. 2/10/1835) married a Burke, here in NZ:

BURKE, Tobias & BURKE, Mary
RGO 9369/1871

and Mary's sister is the Sabina Burke mentioned in the article above. This is her marriage:

HYNES, John & BURKE, Sabina
RGO 1795/1890
Married 29 Dec 1890 in Milton, Otago, New Zealand

Sabina's parents are listed as William Burke and Mary, whose maiden name appears to be either Walter/Walters or Lualter/Lualters.

Now I'm wondering if Toby and his wife are related!

[taramcdsmall]

Hi Nik,

Without knowing the exact particulars of your tree it's hard to know exactly.

The only thing that I can tell you re Burke's is that TOBY / TOBIAS is not a Castlegar Christian name . . . . .  and Walter (or variations) as a surname is not a Castlegar Surname either.

Tara