Ned (Edward) was baptised on November 6th 1880.
He emigrated to the US in 1903 arriving in New York on October 22nd
on the SS Campania with his brother, the newly-ordained Fr. James. On the ship’s
manifest he gives his occupation as “farmer”, is said to be carrying $50 and
gives his brother Bill’s address in Chicago as his destination.
He was reputed to be a very good hurler and played on a
Kilfinny team of the 1890’s and also on a team in Chicago that his brother Bill
managed.
In the 1910 US Census he is living on East 56th
St. Michigan Avenue with his brothers, Tom and Joe and his sister, Margaret and
gives his name as Edwin. He is working as a railroad clerk.
At some point he moves to Texas to work as a railway clerk where
he dies in 1917 of tuberculosis. His death certificate (see below - just click on the image to enlarge it ) shows that he died of
pulmonary tuberculosis in the Bexar County TB Colony. The attending doctor had
been treating him almost three weeks but the death certificate states that he
had been ill for three years and had contracted the TB in Chicago.
He was only 37 and died a lonely death a long way from
Kilmacow. John and Mary Burke had now lost three of their children, all three
of whom had died in the US, two of them from TB. He is buried in the family
plot in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago.
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