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DISCOVERY - The Secret Life of Annie Agnes Burke (1889-1901)
"Who? - No!" was my mother’s response to the question "Did you know that your mother had an older sister named Annie?" She and I were given the same middle name "Anne", now we knew why. Then her questions began and I told her what I had learned. Assuming the information may be emotional to grasp, I warned her this may be intitally upsetting. My discovery of Annie Agnes, born on February 23, 1889, was a result of a detailed pursuit within the Census records of my grandmother's Burke family in Natick, Massachusetts. After the 1889 record of her birth and baptism, Annie is ennumerated twice in the Census of 1900. Two plus weeks later, on the June 20 th her parents, Edward H. Burke (1858-1928) and Annie E. Kearns (1861-1940) stated she lived at home with the family on Farwell Street in Natick. [Guilt, shame, saddness …?] The Ho...
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