John McWalter Burke (abt. 1690)

Born about 1690 in Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, Ireland

Descendants

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Biography

Birth date is an estimate.

Sources

Quinn, Anne. 1870. Howley Family History. Unpublished manuscript.

Notes

His grandparents were possibly Honor and Richard McWalter Burke (d.1660).

According to the Howley family history (Anne Quinn, 1870), Bridget and her sister Catherine (who married Howley brothers Michael and Richard), were daughters of John McWalter Burke of Castle Borrisoleigh. The McWalter Burke/Bourke's of Ileagh, Co. Tipperary, are descended from de Burgh's; an Anglo-Norman family whose lineage can be traced to 13th century Ireland.

The following provides some background on the origins of the McWalter Burke's, however the direct line from Walter Bourke (1541-1623) to John McWalter Burke (b. ca.1690) can't be made. He would have likely been a 3rd or 4th ggf of John.

http://burkeseastgalway.com/burke-part-2/#_edn16

"MacWalter Bourke of Ileagh, Co. Tipperary: Another line of the de Burghs, established in a small territory in the north of County Tipperary, became identified as a minor sept or branch in its own right, known as the Bourkes of Ileagh, the head of their branch known as MacWalter Bourke of Ileagh. It is uncertain from whom this sept derive their descent and although a funeral entry in the records of the Ulster King of Arms for a senior family member dated 1635 described them as ‘descended from the Bourkes of Clanricard,’ they came to bear arms similar to those of Castleconnell. The head of this family, Walter Bourke of Burres (Borrisoleigh), County Tipperary died on 10th June 1623 and was buried at Glenkeen graveyard, near Borrisoleigh."

"Of this family, Honor Burke, wife of Richard McWalter Burke, esquire, late of Borish O Leigh in Co. Tipperary bequeathed seven pounds sterling to the Franciscan friary of Meelick in east Galway in 1660. Giblin, G., OFM, Papers relating to Meelick Friary 1644-1731, Collectanea Hibernica, No. 16, B. Millett OFM (general editor), Naas, Leinster Leader ltd., 1973, pp. 48-88."

"Callanan, M., The de Burgos or Bourkes of Ileagh, N. Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. II, 1937, pp. 67-77. The wall tomb was erected against the north wall of the old church. The inscription at the tomb, according to M. Callanan read ‘Hoc sibi monumentum fieri fecit in eoq sepultus est Walterus de Burgo, territorii de Illieagh, quondam valida ac prudes propugnator qui obiit Junii 10 1623, aetatis 72, ano Domini 1623. Uxore habuit Silia, filia Ydhir, ex qua multa sucepit prole 4 sc. Filius. Theobalu, Gulielmu, Mileru et Johane et multas filias oesque lectissimis congibus collocata.’ The Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 1909, Vol. VII, No. III, Part 2, pp. 670-672 records a similar inscription on the table portion of monument and about the shaft of the cross, but found elements relating to the year of death and his age somewhat difficult to read. . . . A footnote therein also attested to the reference in the Fiants of Queen Elizabeth of a pardon extended by the Crown in 1585 to Walter fitzWilliam fitzTheobald Bourke of Ileaghe and to his wife Gyles alias Sylye I Dower (or ‘O Dwyer’) and to the death of this Walter Burke recorded in a 1628 County Tipperary Chancery Inquisition as occurring in January 1624. The same inquisition gave his sons as the four outlined on the Glenkeen monument."