Burke/ Bourke

Bridget Agnes Bourke was born Feb 3r or 5th in 1897. We were told she never could remember what day it was. I have always found that a bit odd. Her parents were Patrick Bourke and Ann Kilgallon. They were married in the Church of Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph in Bohola, Ireland in 1890 I believe and the name was Burke. There were brothers too; John and Walter, which we are positive of. But there was one or 2 more. There was a story told that one of her brothers was killed while walking down the road by a gang of uprisers but we do not know when or who this brother was.
Unfortunately there are many Burkes/Bourkes in that area even though Bohola is a small town. So finding them in censuses has been difficult. We do know John was living in Chesire England in the 30s or 40s and Walter in Bohola because Bridget had them listed in her address book. There was an Aunt Mary and Uncle Walter Bourke mentioned in postcards and postcards from them that my grandmother had ( Bridget's oldest daughter ) and this was after Bridget had died. Bridget later went by her middle name Agnes because it was said she didnt not want to be known as Bea. But on one of her son's birth certificate she is listed as Beatrice. We do not know why. Later in life she went by Agnes. Agnes is listed in the 1930 US Census as immigrating here in 1914.

Name:	Agnes Wascher
Event:	Census
Event Date:	1930
Event Place:	Freeport, Nassau, New York
Gender:	Female
Age:	34
Marital Status:	Married
Race:	White
Birthplace:	Ireland
Estimated Birth Year:	1896
Immigration Year:	1914
Relationship to Head of Household:	Wife
Father's Birthplace:	Ireland
Mother's Birthplace:	Ireland
Enumeration District Number:	0029
Family Number:	250
Sheet Number and Letter:	10A
Line Number:	13
NARA Publication:	T626, roll 1458
Film Number:	2341193
Digital Folder Number:	4661128
Image Number:	00184
	Household	Gender	Age
Spouse	Walter Wascher	M	40
	Agnes Wascher	F	34
Child	Walter Wascher	M	11
Child	Margaret Wascher	F	9
Child	Dorothy Wascher	F	7

But we cant find her in the Ellis records.  We were told she was sponsered by her uncle Thomas Kilgallon but he is not mentioned in any Ellis files with any Bourke/Burke. I am now being lead to believe he only paid her way and that was considered being her sponsor. One that does fit her description with having a father in Limerick as Patrick was Bridget Burke and she came here in 1914 and was born in 1897. But as far as who she was going to see was an aunt Chrissie Plunkett and we have never heard of that name. But the height is too tall and has her listed as having blue eyes and brown hair when she was not even 5 foot tall and had black hair and brown eyes.

The Church of Immaculate Conception and St Joseph has been a family church of the Bourkes and Kilgallons. St Joseph's Cemetery is the church cemetery but it is not on the church property. A listing of internments on findagrave only mentions a Jimmy Kilgallon but I see its not complete as in the cemetery picture there is a Mary Burke that isnt even listed.
Agnes died in 1952 from pancreatic cancer in Freeport. Her husband Walter had left the family in 1939 and we later found out he went to Maryland and worked for the Social Security Board and then moved out to California where he died in 1952 also. He changed his middle name from James to John. We do not know why he left. As far as we know Agnes never heard from him after he left. He is buried in an unmarked grave in CA. Agnes and Walter had 3 sons and 3 daughters. They are all deceased now.