Victor Ronald BOURKE
1881 - 1947 (66 years)-
Name Victor Ronald BOURKE Birth 24 May 1881 Patrick's Plains, Singleton NSW 
[1] Gender Male Occupation Baker, Artist Death 22 Sep 1947 Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia [2] Burial Coolangatta Cemetery NSW Person ID I22 Life in the Pastlane Last Modified 5 Jul 2020
Father Archibald BOURKE, b. 29 Sep 1851, Sydney NSW d. 25 Jul 1932, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney NSW (Age 80 years) Relationship natural Mother Hannah Barbara aka Anna Maria DRIES, b. 8 May 1854, Ravensworth nr Singleton NSW d. 1 Feb 1935, State Hospital, Newington, Sydney NSW (Age 80 years) Relationship natural Marriage 29 Sep 1875 Singleton NSW Family ID F12 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Emily May NEAL, b. 19 Dec 1884, Brokenshaft Creek nr Orange NSW d. 14 Jun 1971, Sydney NSW (Age 86 years) Marriage 9 Jan 1925 Glebe NSW Children 1. Thelma BOURKE AKA WEIR, b. 20 Dec 1920, Marvel Street, Byron Bay NSW d. May 2018, RSL War Veterans Village, Narrabeen NSW (Age 97 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Living BOURKE AKA WEIR [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. Living BOURKE [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F14 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Jul 2020
Family 2 Living JOHNSON Family ID F172 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Jul 2020
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Notes - Ron/Vic left Emily and the children about 1927 and went to Woy Way where he opened a fish & chip shop.
Thelma remembered him from her childhood being quite the entertainer, an excellent sketch artist and a good singer. He used to make toys out of cotton reels for the kids.
Thelma suggested he had a wife before Emily who was a catholic, and religion broke them up. I have never found any evidence of this.
Parents listed on his birth certificate - Archibald and Hannah.
Marriage Certificate states:
Ronald Stewart Bourke (should be Ronald Victor Bourke)
labourer
Residence: Tweed Street, Tweed Heads NSW
bachelor (untrue)
age 39, born 4 Oct 1893 Maitland NSW - all untrue. He was 52 years old.
Father: Archibald Bourke (Dec.) miner
Mother: Elizabeth Dragon (never heard of her!)
Adeline Eliza Johnson
Domestic duties
spinster, 23 years
Blackett Rd, Mitchelton Qld
Born, Blackall Range, Queensland
Father: Thomas Johnson, pensioner
Mother: Matilda Williams
- Ron/Vic left Emily and the children about 1927 and went to Woy Way where he opened a fish & chip shop.
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