Burke County Genealogy and Probate Records
Mountain scenes in Burke County, North Carolina. Burke county was formed
from Rowan County in 1777 and was named after Thomas Burke, a delegate
to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1781. Also, he served as
Governor of the State of North Carolina from 1781 to 1782. Most of this
region was settled by many Scots-Irish and German immigrants. In 1791,
parts of Burke County and Rutherford County were combined to form
Buncombe County. In 1833, Yancey County was formed from parts of Burke
County and Buncombe County.
In 1841, parts of Burke County and Wilkes County formed Caldwell Conty
and during 1842
additional parts of Burke County and Rutherford County were combined to
make McDowell County. Finally, in 1861, parts of Burke County, Caldwell
County, McDowell County, Watauga County and Yancey County were combined
to form Mitchell County. .
Burke County citizens participated in the Battle of Kings Mountain which
pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the
British commander Ferguson at Kings Mountain, South Carolina during the
American Revolution, and were called "Over the Mountain Men" because the
militia men did not wait bur crossed over the Blue Ridge mountains to
engage the fight. The earliest records of Burke County is a problem to genealogists because the ink in the will book dating from 1793 faded beyond recognition.
Burke County North Carolina Probate Records available to members of North Carolina Pioneers
Digital Images of Burke County Wills 1793 to 1869 (surviving images)
- Avery, Wrightsville
- Bradshaw, William
- Branch, Oliver
- Brittain, W. L.
- Coffee, William
- Connelly, John
- Connelly, Sidney
- Connelly, Tilney
- Dale, George
- Day, James
- Day, Nicholas
- Devine, James
- Durham, John
- Durmire, Adam
- Dysart, William
- Dyson, Samuel
- Edmiston, Sarah
- England, Daniel
- England, John
- England, Thomas
- England, William
- Erwin, Arthur
- Erwin, James
- Erwin, Matilda
- Erwin, Ulysses
- Erwin, William H.
- Erwin, William W.
- Espy, Mary
- Estes, Delphi
- Estes, John
- Estes, Laban
- Estes, Reuben
- Fair, Joseph
- Finley, Charles
- Fleming, Elizabeth
- Fleming, James
- Fleming, Robert
- Forney, Jacob
- Forney, Peter
- Foster, George
- Fox, Hugh
- Franklin, John
- Fullerton, William
- Fulwood, William
- Harshaw, Jacob
- Hoyle, Absalom
- Johnson, D. H.
- Kenley, Aaron
- Kincaid, Milton H.
- Lail, Jacob
- London, Marcus
- Mathew, George
- McGimsey, A. T.
- McKesson, Anna
- Newburn, John
- O'Neil, Henry
- Pullen, Mary
- Ramsey, Catherine
- Rector, Martha
- Reynolds, Nancy
- Robinson, Sophia
- Scott, Ambrose
- Scott, Rebecca
- Seagle, Jacob
- Smith, Mary Southerland
- Tate, W. C.
- Taylor, Hugh
- Walton, Martha
- Walton, T. George
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