I hate to sound ungrateful, but... This is absolutely ridiculous! How do I even begin to address all the things you are finding and asking?
Shane!!!!
Monica!!!
You folks are absolutely Kah-ray-zeeeeeee!!!!
(I hope you know that's offered up in the nicest way.)
Blimey, anyone could understand ME being obsessed, being related to these ancestors. What's YOUR guy's/gal's excuse?
My interests aside, with all your efforts, I just hope that this leads somewhere productive. And, this is the right Jessie and James, right?
Shane, yes, the "guardian" thing. I was wondering about that. And what is the significance of the phrase "by license with consent of xxx". Who all, exactly, does this phrase refer to? In Cincinnati, I have corresponded often with a Dioceses archivist who knows all the Latin, German, and English lingo of the records. Perhaps I should start up a dialogue with a similar expert on Irish turf.
And thanks for doing all of that searching. It would take me years... Incredible... So very interesting. I can't thank you enough.
Now for Monica. I was wondering about you today. Had no idea the trouble you were up to.
In answer to your question about US info on Jessie and James: yes, I have scoured all the US Census records for their names, but like you find very little there. Mostly I have traced them through digitized Cincinnati directories. (Luckily for me James F. was proud of his middle name, because there are LOTS of J./Jas./James Burkes scattered around Cincy.)
James F. was a ticket collector for one of Cincinnati's "inclined" railroad lines (basically a tram). He also installed lightning rods.
1855 is the first year I’ve found a record of James’s presence in Cincinnati: a church baptism record for their first daughter Mary on October 7th. It also reveals Jessie’s maiden name of Sutherland.
I've searched some of the Cincy directories between 1849 and 1900. 1876, so far, is the first year I see "James F. Burke" in the Cincy directory. 1892 is the last year that name is listed. Jessie Burke is not shown: women in a household usually aren't unless they have a trade.
In Cincy there is an 1882 record of a "James F. Burke" seeking naturalization, who indicates that he departed from Dublin and arrived in Philadelphia, and sadly, no, he does not indicate when that voyage happened.
Have no records of his and Jessie's deaths, but since I've only recently gotten the critical address info needed to query the Archdiocese of Cincinnati via snail mail, I have yet to do so. Have searched online for wills, with no results. I am dying to spend a week in Cincinnati to research non-digital records. 5 hours away – what’s my excuse?
The 1880 US Census shows that James F. Burke was born in Dublin. His father and mother were also born in Ireland. Jesse was born in Scotland, as were her father and mother. I found Jessie's maiden name "Sutherland" in the birth records of her children.
Oh, here's an item that puzzles me: James Francis Burke and Jessie Sophia Sutherland were married in a Protestant church in Ireland. Yet the Cincinnati birth records for their children are from a Catholic church. Does this raise a red flag for our J&J of Dublin?? Forget I ever brought that up.
It's Midnight... I'm shot.
Goodnight...
Thank you. This is very fun.
Joe