Given by Frances Henry, John Person Chapter, Texas, National Society Colonia Dames XVII Century.

English Genealogy

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For more than 170 years, Burke's Landed Gentry has been an invaluable genealogical guide to notable families and their histories throughout the British Isles. Burke's Irish Family Records details the descendents of some 500 important Irish families, whether living in Ireland or settled abroad. The book includes a free searchable PDF (on CD-ROM) of the full contents of the book along with comprehensive family records from all current Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition titles - The Kingdom in Scotland, The Ridings of York, The Principality of Wales and The North West. This volume is the fifth edition, a reprint of the 1976 Edition of Irish Family Records .

The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the about 1961.

The Burkes were originally Anglo-Irish. There were several Burk families which immigrated to America in the middle 1600s and early 1700s and settled in Virginia. Among those Burks was Sam Burk who settled in Byrd Creek and James Burk who settled along the New River and later in Surry County, North Carolina. Two other Burks were Thomas Burk who settled in Shenandoah and John Burk who settled near Thomas. Descendants live in Virginia and other parts of the United States.