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Rebecca (Duncan) Burke (abt. 1770 - 1858)

Rebecca Burke formerly Duncan
Born about in Pittsylvania, North Carolinamap
Daughter of and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married before 1807 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of and
Died at about age 88 in Cabell County, West Virginiamap
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Unproven relationships Location Discrepancies Name Variations Birks, Burks, Burke, etc. Duncan, Dunken, Dunkin, etc.

Biography

Rebecca Duncan Parents Unknown -- Reportedly Peter of North Carolina (unproven)

Birth Estimate 1770 North Carolina
Marriage Estimate David Burks
Death Estimate 1858 Cabel Co West Virginia
Location Estimates North Carolina vs Virginia or West Virginia

Death Notice of child William Burks
Birth: abt 1834, Pike, Kentucky
Death 12 Dec 1857, Pike, Kentucky
[1]


1850 Cabell county, Cabell, Virginia
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
James Sulivan M 31 Kentucky
Elizabeth Sulivan F 30 Kentucky
Celia Sulivan F 7 Kentucky Mary Sulivan F 4 Virginia
Rebecca Burks F 80 North Carolina
[2]

Research Notes

Floyd Co Kentucky Records C-129: Duncan, Peter from David Burks & wf (Rebecca), deed, Aug. 12, 1828, 25 acres L F Beavor Grantor index, Vol.D, 1810-1869 (FHL Film 836,816) C-227/228: Indenture 2 Nov. 1830, between Jonathan Hall of Floyd Co. KY of the one part & Peter Dunken

Amhurst Co Virginia Records D-50: 20 July 1780, Patent to John Duncan, for 15 sh., 126 acres by survey 15 Dec. 1769 in Amherst Co. on branches of Pedlar River, beg. Chestnut corner to David Burks. (FHL film 29,363) G-107: 27 Dec. 1791, John Duncan and wife Sarah to John F.P. Lewis, for £200, land on branches of Pedlar River bounded ... near Maple Creek on Nathaniel Davis decd line, line of John Burks, David Burks, water grist mill. Wit. Isham Davis, Benjamin Hensley, Jess? Davis, John Burks.

Sources

  1. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/16689419?h=0f4483&
  2. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M88R-1V4 : accessed 17 May 2016), Rebecca Burks in household of James Sulivan, Cabell county, Cabell, Virginia, United States; citing family 886, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Mary Ann Duncan Dobson "Duncan Research Files" (Consolidated, sourced and acknowledged); and the many Duncan Researchers that have provided information.
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Acknowledgement

Jeffrey Woodward, Friday, March 20, 2015.





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