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Born at Carshalton, Surrey, Son of John Bourke
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Life of Rev. John William Bourke
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Proceeded M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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Marries Kerr of Jamiaca and has 8 children
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Ordination at Oxford Uni
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Appointed vicar/rector of St. Martins by the Bs of St. Asaph, chiefly resided at St. Martins
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1804 sketch of the Oswestry Church
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Writes thankyou letter to Lord Mayor William Lloyd for his request to do his inauguration speech.
More info on document here
Letter and Sketches to William Lloyd Letter thanking Lord Mayor for his request to do the inauguration speech and comical pictures making fun of the departing Lord Mayor, Thomas Longueville Jones. Also requests the Lord Mayor for 'advancement to the bench'. The request does not look to have been fullfilled according to Obitu.
Document found at yard sale in Portland, OR in June 2013 for $20 -
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Writes thankyou letter to Lord Mayor William Lloyd for his request to do his inauguration speech.
More info on document here
Letter and Sketches to William Lloyd Letter thanking Lord Mayor for his request to do the inauguration speech and comical pictures making fun of the departing Lord Mayor, Thomas Longueville Jones. Also requests the Lord Mayor for 'advancement to the bench'. The request does not look to have been fullfilled according to Obitu.
Document found at yard sale in Portland, OR in June 2013 for $20 -
Appointed vicar of Oswesty by the Earl of Powis
The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 93, Part 2 1823 CCED Searh ID 1586 -
"took possesion of his Oswestry living", according to an old diary.
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Participates in an Agricultural contest as Secretary
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embroiled in a long-running legal dispute
Cheltenham Chronicle, 23 May 1816
He seems to have been embroiled in a long-running legal dispute with seven of his parishioners over the tithe (a form of tax) they owned to his church. It looks like he introduced a new tithe system when he became vicar in 1808, but his parishioners continued to abide by an older custom that meant they didn't have to pay as much. I suspect his actions might not have endeared him to Community. -
Exchanges land with Lord Viscount Clive, Earl of Powice to improve church.
Welsh Archeological Records Deed of Exchange between Lord Viscount Clive and the Rev. John William Bourke, under which the New Churchyard was acquired, in exchange for for triangular piece of land at junction of Salop Road and Lower Brook Street, near the Cemetery gates, March 25 1817. -
Renovates the vicarage house of St. Martins
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History "improved" the vicarage house of St. Martins that had been built in 1730 by the vicar of the period Stephan Parry. -
Published 24 pg book: "A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Oswestry"
Librarys with this book A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Oswestry... before the District Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. -
His only child John Kerr Bourke, was drowned in tragic boating accident.
John Kerr Bourke Obituary
Only Child Dies In 1820 his only child, John Kerr Bourke, was tragically drowned in a boating accident in Oxford. He'd just arrived at the university earlier that term. -
Has a hobby of collecting and preserving (dead) specimens of rare British birds
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Writes Last Will and Testament. All processesions to go to wife Ann
J.W.B Last Will and Testament He has no living heirs. Transcript of Will -
Dies of Apoplexy at St. Martins at age 50
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Will Probated by Ann Kerr
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Widowed Ann Kerr moves into Plas-wilmot in Oswestry. Birthplace of WWI Poet Wilfred Owen
