Geoffrey Bourke | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev Geoffrey Bourke Title: Rev First Name: Geoffrey Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Bourke Order: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 1930 Place of Death: Country of Death: Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1890/06086/4736586.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Tuam, Registrar's District Tuam No. 1. 1890. Deaths Registered in the District of Tuam No. 1 in the Union of Tuam in the County of Galway. No. 337. On 23 May 1890 at Cummer, death of Geoffery I. Canon Burke, male, parish priest, bachelor, age 67 years, Parish Priest; cause of death: apoplexy, one week, certified; informant: Catherine Walsh, occupier, present at death, of Cummer; 4 November 1890; J.E. Dowling, Registrar." --- Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 29: Bourke, G., Irish Armidale Diocese (1886 CD). Prob. a temporary volunteer and identical with Geoffrey B. who died at Ballyglunin, Ir. on 23.5.1890. (Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.) --- T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005: Bourke, Geoffrey Date and place of birth unknown. Place of education unknown. Place of study unknown. Date and place of ordination unknown. Date of arrival in Australia unknown. He is recorded in O'Hanlon as being based at Tamworth in 1887, and that he took part in the formal transfer of Tamworth from the Maitland diocese to the Diocese of Armidale. That occurred in the Dominican convent in September 1887. According to O'Hanlon he then left Tamworth for Maitland and the priests' retreat. Shortly afterwards he went to Ireland, where he entered the Carmelite order. He died in 1930 while Novice Master, according to O'Hanlon. Campbell lists only a William Burke (sic), who was at Lambton 1887-1889, with no other details. Southerwood suggests he died 23 May 1890. Doody lists him in the section 'supplementary list of priests who have also worked in the diocese', with no details other than period in the diocese, shown as 1886. Date and place of death unknown. Place of burial unknown. (Sources: Campbell, Foley, O'Hanlon, Doody, MDHC A-Z B80) (Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)

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Irish death record, https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1890/06086/4736586.pdf: "Superintendent Registrar's District Tuam, Registrar's District Tuam No. 1. 1890. Deaths Registered in the District of Tuam No. 1 in the Union of Tuam in the County of Galway. No. 337. On 23 May 1890 at Cummer, death of Geoffery I. Canon Burke, male, parish priest, bachelor, age 67 years, Parish Priest; cause of death: apoplexy, one week, certified; informant: Catherine Walsh, occupier, present at death, of Cummer; 4 November 1890; J.E. Dowling, Registrar."

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 29:

Bourke, G., Irish
Armidale Diocese (1886 CD). Prob. a temporary volunteer and identical with Geoffrey B. who died at Ballyglunin, Ir. on 23.5.1890.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.)

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Bourke, Geoffrey

Date and place of birth unknown. Place of education unknown. Place of study unknown. Date and place of ordination unknown. Date of arrival in Australia unknown. He is recorded in O'Hanlon as being based at Tamworth in 1887, and that he took part in the formal transfer of Tamworth from the Maitland diocese to the Diocese of Armidale. That occurred in the Dominican convent in September 1887. According to O'Hanlon he then left Tamworth for Maitland and the priests' retreat. Shortly afterwards he went to Ireland, where he entered the Carmelite order. He died in 1930 while Novice Master, according to O'Hanlon. Campbell lists only a William Burke (sic), who was at Lambton 1887-1889, with no other details. Southerwood suggests he died 23 May 1890. Doody lists him in the section 'supplementary list of priests who have also worked in the diocese', with no details other than period in the diocese, shown as 1886. Date and place of death unknown. Place of burial unknown.
(Sources: Campbell, Foley, O'Hanlon, Doody, MDHC A-Z B80)

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)

Rev Geoffrey Bourke

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