BURKE Family

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Also spelled Bourke, Burke, Burgo. An Anglo-Irish family of Connaught, founded by William de Burgh (d. 1206), who was granted large holdings in Ireland by King John.  
 

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	de BURGH, Hubert [?-1243] – English politician BURK129 S26 Brother of William de Burgh (d.1206). Chamberlain to King John; jailer, according to chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall, of Arthur, Duke of Brittany; made justiciar; aided ¤John against the barons; a leader in expulsion of the French from England; regent and chief minister of ¤Henry III; created earl of Kent and justiciar for life.

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BURK[E], Martha Jane (née Cannary) [1852?-1903] American frontierswoman, a/k/a Calamity Jane BURKE, Billie (née Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) [1885-1970] American actress, "Glinda, the Good Witch", of The Wizard of Oz (1939) BURKE, Edmund [1729-1797] British statesman and orator BURKE, John [1787-1848] Irish genealogist BURKE, Robert O'Hara [1820-1861] Irish explorer BURKE, Thomas [1886-1945] English writer

BURKE, William [1792-1829] Irish criminal de BURGH, Richard [1259?-1326] 2nd earl of Ulster de BURGH, Walter [?-1271] 1st earl of Ulster de BURGH, William [1312-1333] 3rd earl of Ulster de BURGH, William [?-1206] family founder

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