Download or read book Irish Burks of Colonial Virginia and New River written by Patricia Givens Johnson and published by Walpa Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burkes were originally Anglo-Irish. There were several Burk families which immigrated to America in the middle 1600s and early 1700s and settled in Virginia. Among those Burks was Sam Burk who settled in Byrd Creek and James Burk who settled along the New River and later in Surry County, North Carolina. Two other Burks were Thomas Burk who settled in Shenandoah and John Burk who settled near Thomas. Descendants live in Virginia and other parts of the United States.