Ohio Families

Superintendent Registrar's District: Tuam, Registrar's District: Dunmore, County Galway
Births
December 9, 1899
in Clondergan
Thomas [son of] Martin Burke, a farmer of Clondergan, and Honor Burke, formerly Toole. informant: Mary -her mark- Burke, of Clondergan, present at birth

1901 Census of Ireland
31 March 1901
Residents of a house 8 in Cloondergan (Addergoole, Galway)

Burke John 50 Male Head of Family
Burke Mary 47 Female Wife
Burke Martin 25 Male Son
Burke Nora 24 Female Daughter in Law
Burke Thomas 20 Male Son
Burke Thomas 1 Male Grand Son

All Roman Catholic, all born in Galway, all old enough could read and write English. John and Mary could speak Irish. Thomas (20) is not described as blind on this census, as he is in 1911.

1911 Census of Ireland
2 April 1911
Residents of a house 11 in Cloondergan (Addergoole, Galway)

Burke Martin 43 Male Head
Burke Oney 38 Female Wife, married 13 years, 6 children, 6 alive
Burke Thomas 35 Male Brother, blind
Burke Thomas 12 Male Son
Burke Marie 10 Female Daughter
Burke Winifred 9 Female Daughter
Burke Sarah 6 Female Daughter
Burke John 4 Male Son
Burke Michael 2 Male Son
Burke Mary 75 Female Mother, widowed

All Roman Catholic, all born in Galway, all old enough could read and write English. Martin, Oney, Thomas (35), and Mary could speak Irish.

SS President Adams, left Queenstown November 20, 1922, arrived New York November 28, 1922

Thomas Burke, 22, general laborer, Irish, last permanent residence: Dunmore, Ireland, nearest relative or friend in Ireland: Michael Steed, Hill Street, Dunmore, Galway, destination: Cousin Stephen Munroe, 6800 Lucerne, Cleveland, Ohio. expect to stay: 10 years, 6'0", dark complexion, black hair, blue eyes, born in Dunmore, Ireland

the destination, 6800 Lucerne, was the home of Thomas' uncle Michael Burke, and was the destination of his sisters Mary, Winifred, and Sarah when they arrived.

Stephen Monroe was the child of Michael Burke's wife Mary Mackin from her first marriage.