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From: "Bob Jones" <>
Subject: Re: [AVNE] re BOURKE
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 16:51:30 +1000
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Sorry. Tried my AVR's Federation, Edwardian, Great Wars and Deaths with a
big fat zilch.
Regards
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: xtr100912 <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AVNE] re BOURKE


> Hi Everyone,
>
> Can someone please help with a look up of deaths in Victoria. I have a
> problem - or else my family has some of the oldest people ever living in
NE
> Victoria.
>
> Recently I found that my great great uncle Michael BOURKE came to Victoria
> on the Compeer in March 1864. Now I have obtained his marriage
certificate
> and he married Anne O'CONNELL on 12 Feb 1872, daughter of Michael
O'CONNELL
> and Margaret MURPHY.
>
> They had three children that I can trace, Michael born 1875 and died 1878,
> Patrick born 1877 and Margaret born 1879.
>
> Over the last days I have been checking through the Victorian BDM
microfiche
> to 1960 and cannot find a death for either Anne or Michael BOURKE Senior.
I
> was able to find the death of son Patrick Michael in Victoria in 1946.
>
> There are a number of querys re this family.
> 1. Why only three children so close together? I thought perhaps either
Ann
> or Michael may have died young, but cannot find records.
> 2. Where and when did they die?
> 3. Did their daughter Margaret marry? A look up of Death Index on
1889-1920
> CDs, and the1921-1985 Death Index with a search for Margaret, father's
name
> Michael BOURKE and Mother's name Ann O'CONNELL should give her married
> surname (and possibly confirmation name) at death from which I could trace
> her marriage.
>
> Hoping someone can help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rosalyn
>
>

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