Re: Bridget Callagan Married John Burke- Co.Galway-west
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Bridget Callagan Married John Burke- Co.Galway-west
Jerome Walton Burke 7/25/08
No dates! Not even estimates. You don't give us much to work with. However, in general emigration from western Ireland didn't begin until the famine era and after.
I searched the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 11,500,000 surviving rcds for abt 60% of Irish counties. Rcds B4 1840 are sparse, even later and especially for Co. Galway.
Searching Galway (west) for John Burke M 1870 +/- 4 yrs, I found 39 M rcds. For Bridget Callagan, I found 0 rcds in the same range.
Focusing on Bridget, the only 5 M rcds are for 1840, 1841, 1842, 1842, and 1887. For the 1840s, there are 8 John Burke M rcds. However, none of the Burke and Callagan rcds match at the parish level.
For Thomas Burke, there are 8 B rcds, all in the 1880s. One MAY be for your ancestor. Suggest you try to find a headstone, obit, natualization papers, etc to find his actual DOB. B/M/D registration was civil after 1864. There aren't any civil rcds in the current Galway database. You should wait until these are added to continue your search.
Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added, and browse (free).