O'ROURKE, Margaret

   Other names for Margaret were OROURKE, Margaret,¹ RORK, Margaret and RORKE, Margaret.

  General Notes:

Margaret was aged 6 years when recorded by the 1881 census for Bothwell parish. She was a scholar and had been born in New Monkland parish.

In the 1891 census for 24 Crofthead, Neilston, a married woman with children was registered:

Mary O'Rourke, born Cleland, Head, Married, aged 39 years, a bleachfield worker
Mary O'Rourke, born Cleland, daughter, unmarried, aged 17 years, a thread worker
Margaret O'Rourke, born Clarkston, daughter, unmarried, aged 15 years, a thread worker (this woman)
Henry O'Rourke, born Quarter, son, unmarried, aged 11 years, a half-time worker
Sarah Kennedy O'Rourke, born Cadzow, daughter, unmarried, aged 5 years.

Margaret Orourke was living at 57 Langmuir Square Coatbridge Lanarkshire in 1901. The census recorded her aged 26 years old, living with her mother, brother and sisters. She was a pithead worker, who had been born in Cleland. ^{1 2}