RORK, John ²

   Other names for John were O'RORK, John,⁵ O'ROURKE, John ⁴ and RORKE, John.¹

  General Notes:

John was recorded as aged 3 years in the 1871 census. He lived at 87 Omoa Square with his parents and two sisters.

In 1906 John's father Francis died. John was the informant of his death before Gil Hamilton, registrar, at Holytown on 1 September 1906. John's address then was recorded on the certificate as Woodneuk, Chapelhall.

When his daughter Susan died in 1948, John, by then deceased, was recorded as a coal miner. ^{4 6}

John married Ann McEWAN, daughter of Patrick McEWAN and Grace KEENAN, on 29 December 1888 in RC Chapel, Busby, Renfrewshire, Scotland.¹ (Ann McEWAN was born about 1868 ¹ and died before 14 November 1948.)

  Marriage Notes:

The marriage was solemnised after banns according to the forms of the Roman Catholic Church, the celebrant being Louis De Meulenaere and the witnesses James Morgan and Ann McMahon. the marriage was recorded as taking place in "the Roman Catholic Chapel Sheddens now Busby".

John Rorke, a coal miner and a bachelore, was recorded as 21 years of age and living at Rutherglen.

Ann McEwan, who made her X mark, was a dyework worker, also single, aged 20 years, and living in Mearns. Her mother was deceased.

The marriage was registered at Cathcart on 3 January 1889. ¹