Hi Malcolm & Deborah; In fact, Ruth Burke was Captain Dave Burke's daughter, so she was Fred's niece. Captain Fred Burke and his wife, Lillian, did have a daughter, also named Lillian. She would not have been in the Midland High School Review for 1932 because she was only 12 years old at the time. Patrick Smith On 03/09/2010 7:06 PM, Malcolm Moody wrote: > Hi Deb, > > Your mention of the name Burke of Midland made me remember that we had digitized the Midland High School Review for 1932 some time ago and I wondered if such a prominent family might have had students in the school at that time? > > Well, it turns out that there was a girl named Ruth Burke in form 1A who was the form representative on the Athletics committee and who won the junior base ball throw at the schools track meet. Doing a little "loose" math it turns out that Ruth could possibly have been a daughter of the Capt. Fred Burke you mention. > > If you want to see more information on the publication you can find it in our catalogue as a Gleaning* number CAG048. > (* Gleanings are small - and so cheap - publications designed to be downloaded directly to you over the net. Available on CD at an additional charge.) > > I thought this might help you if you are starting to explore the family genealogies in Midland as well. > > Malcolm > > Archive CD Books Canada Inc. > President: Malcolm Moody > PO Box 11 > Manotick > Ontario, K4M 1A2 > Canada. > (613) 692-2667 > WEB SITE: http://www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca > FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/ACDB-Can-on-Facebook > > On 3 Sep, 2010, at 4:00 PM, can-ont-simcoe-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> Message: 9 >> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:00:54 -0400 >> From: Deborah Crawford<deborahc8@gmail.com> >> Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] News from the homefront.... >> To: can-ont-simcoe@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: >> <AANLkTikHR62YfSTSOmaiJ83D0RzjbwC7JV-pvQmk_5-r@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> In keeping with the theme of World War Two news; here is another brief >> article in which Midland is mentioned, from the Hamilton Spectator of May 6 >> 1940. Headline: Sailors Spend Day in Midland: Group from Canadian Navy on >> Shore Leave yesterday. "Midland, Ont., May 6. A group of sailors of the >> Royal Canadian Navy, said to have come here from Ottawa, strolled through >> this Georgian bay town yesterday on shore leave. Cap bands of the tars bore >> the names of several vessels of the Dominion's navy, but the purpose of the >> visit here was veiled in official silence. Several of the men attended a >> memorial service at St. Mark's Anglican church for Captain Fred Burke, 52, >> Midland, who was drowned when his vessel, the Arlington, sank during a storm >> on Lake Superior last Wednesday. A preliminary inquiry into the sinking >> began Friday after the Arlington crew landed here on the rescue boat, >> Collingwood. The inquiry ended Saturday and the results will be forwarded >> to federal authorities at Ottawa." >> >> For those of us from Midland, the Burke name is a familiar one; many of them >> being sea-faring souls. One of my JEWITT great grand aunties married a >> BURKE, uncertain if it's kin to the above mentioned captain, but I suspect >> he was. In the town of Midland's heritage house inventory, there is a home >> (or maybe two) belonging to BURKE family members designated as a heritage >> home. >> >> My story for the day. Tomorrow........threats of invasion? >> >> Deborah > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-ONT-SIMCOE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >