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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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- Date
- October 1906
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : October, v.6 : no.2]
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GOVERNOR THOMAS BURKE.
BY
J. G. dbKouluac Hamilton, Pii.D.,
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Among those who accompanied William of Normandy on
his victorious expedition to England in 1066 were two broth¬
ers, sons of Eustice de Burgo, Serb and John de Burgo, or,
as it soon became, Burke. For their services the Conqueror
rewarded them with the grant of several manors in York,
where Serlo built the castle of Knarcsborough. Dying with¬
out issue, he was succeeded by his brother John, now called
Wonocuhis, on account of the loss of one of his eyes. The
latter married a Xorman lady of large fortune, Beatrice de
Yessey by name, and from tliis union were born two sons,
James of Knarcsborough and Richard the Red. Richard
had one son, Walter, who in turn was the father of three
distinguished sons, liaburt, Earl of Kent and Chief Justice
of England; Jeffrey, Bishop of Ely; and William, surnamed
de Adelmol, who was sent to Ireland by Henry TI and was
given a grant comprising the greater part of the Province of
Connaught. The line of descent of the branch of the family
remaining in England must have been lost, as a letter from
Edanus Burke to Thomas Burke, dated December 2, 1709,
states that all trace of the family in England had disappeared.
Of the Irish branches the same writer states that from the
similarity of arms1 until 1627 he judged that all were re¬
lated. One of these branches was known as the Burkes of
1 The arms were as foHows :
The field. Or. Cross-Gules, in the dexter canton, a Lion Rampant, Sable.
Crest: A wreath, a cat and mountain. Proper.
Motto: UnProy, Unefoy, Une Loy.
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