Brief Life History of Burke
When Burke Faulkner was born in 1851, in Meaghers Grant, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America, his father, James Faulkner, was 50 and his mother, Mary Ann Dunbrack, was 33. He died on 9 July 1855, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 4.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Burk Faulkner - Church record: Journal or diary: death:
- Burke Faulkner, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Pioneer Overland Travel - Pioneer Detail
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1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fauconer, fauk(e)ner, falconer ‘falconer’ (Old French fau(l)connier), an occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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4 Faulkner Brothers
Stephen, James, John, and Burke were four of the seven children of James and Mary Ann Dunbrack Faulkner, who joined the Church in Mars Grant, Nova Scotia, Canada. The parents were baptized members of …
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