Peggy Batterton wrote: > Posted on: Burk, Burke, Birk ~ Queries > Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/surnames/bur/Burk/135 > > Surname: Burk - Griffith > ------------------------- > > I have a curosity about this Burk - Griffith. My aunt was named Beulah > Griffith Burk and we have not been able to figure out the Griffith connection. > Our Burks came from South Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas - in that order. > We don't know where they came from prior to SC. I think it was probably > North Carolina. Wonder if this would be a connection maybe? We are from > James Burk b. 1759 and Barbara Briggs b. 1762. One source says they came > from North Carolina and moved to SC but nothing concrete to go on. > > Peggy Batterton I have a bit of a Burke/Griffith or Griffin connection that comes from old photos. On the back of a photo in Margaret Burke's possession was what looked like Aunt Selina Griffit But it could have supposed to have been Griffin or maybe the h was left off by accident. The penmanship was poor. I'm guessing the photo was in the 1860-1880s. Margaret Burke was mostly in Ohio until 1860, but I lost her after that. Her Bible and box of photos is in my uncle's possession. She was my great-great grandmother. I have found nothing to give me a clue as to who Selina is other than an Aunt much less who she married to become that name. -- Rosalyn Alsobrook [email protected] http://home.earthlink.net/~ralsobrook/