John Edward Burke
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John Edward Burke (8 January 1871{{cite book|author=G. R. C. McLeod |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Burke, John Edward (1871–1947) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/burke-john-edward-5614/text9207 |year=1979 |access-date=14 June 2022}} – 9 October 1947) was a shipowner in Queensland, Australia.
History
Burke was born in Brisbane, a son of Captain John Burke (1842 – 3 June 1919){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176075600 |title=Captain John Burke Dead |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=14,515 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=4 June 1919 |accessdate=14 June 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
He was partner with his father in the shipping firm of J. Burke & Son from around 1902 to around 1910, when the company started using the name "J. E. Burke and Son", then "J. E. Burke Ltd" from around November 1923, when they opened their new wharf at Beenleigh.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218223302 |title=South-East |newspaper=The Daily Mail (Brisbane) |issue=6787 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=28 November 1923 |access-date=14 June 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
He was mayor of South Brisbane in 1912.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
His company, J. E. Burke, Ltd, owned numerous small ships serving towns on the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York Peninsula from Brisbane to Burketown (named for the possibly unrelated Robert O'Hara Burke). Their ships (owned or chartered) include:
- SS Porpoise, Captain Peter Burke, was used by the government in 1911 to search for the missing SS Yongala.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175076904 |title=Seatrch for the Yongala |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=12,003 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=8 May 1911 |accessdate=14 June 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- SS Douglas Mawson, believed lost in storm c. 28 March 1923.
Family
On 17 April 1895 Burke married Bridget O'Keefe (c. 1874 – 11 June 1934). She was born in Sachel, County Tipperary, Ireland and arrived in Australia age 19 (so c. 1893). They had three children:
- John Augustine Burke (1896–1972) of Brisbane was manager of the firm in 1938.{{cite news |date=26 January 1938 |title=Brisbane's First Iron Vessel |volume=LII |page=43 |newspaper=The Sydney Mail |issue=1348 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166228868 |access-date=14 June 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- E. A. Burke of Brisbane
- a daughter married H. Stewart, lived in Sydney.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article182886842 |title=Mrs J. E. Burke Dead |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |location=Queensland, Australia |date=12 June 1934 |accessdate=14 June 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
They had a home on Shafston Avenue, East Brisbane.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171158136 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Daily Mercury |volume=81 |issue=241 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=9 October 1947 |access-date=14 June 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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