Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/67/7
Title
Burke family history
Date(s)
- 1933-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
8pp
Context area
Archival history
John Heffernan of Clonmel donated the letter to Kerby A. Miller per Heffernan's letter of 15 January 1978.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Letter of 23 July 1933 from Sister Mary Roderick Burke, daughter of emigrants John and Margaret Burke, in Chicago to her aunt Sister Martha in England informing her of the death of her mother;
- Letter of 15 January 1978 from John Heffernan of Carrick-on-Suir to Kerby A. Miller containing a history of the family of Heffernan’s uncle John Burke, who emigrated from Clogheen, County Tipperary to the United States in the 1860s and settled with his wife Margaret, also from Clogheen, in Waucoma, Iowa.