Children of John Bourke and Margaret Meaney.

John and Margaret Bourke had three of their Tipperary-born sons emigrate to Victoria in 1841...Lawrence, John and Patrick..as well as daughters Ellen, Bridget and Mary.By the time John Senior died in 1853, sons John and Patrick had predeceased him, as well as five children whom I suspect may have died back in Ireland.
The first to marry in Australia was Ellen Bourke, who in 1841 married John Butler at St. Francis Church, Melbourne.There was a man named John Butler from Tipperary who came out to Melbourne on the Duchess Of Northumberland with Ellen's siblings in 1841, but I am not sure whether this was Ellen's husband-to-be.In 1844, Bridget Bourke married Thomas Kelly at St. Francis Catholic Church, Melbourne, followed the next year by Lawrence Bourke marrying Cork girl Hannah Mulcahy.In 1846 Patrick Bourke married Catherine Heffernan-again at St. Francis-, and finally in 1847 youngest sister Mary married James Mannix.Remaining Bourke sibling, John Bourke, died prior to his father's death in 1853. There are two John Bourkes marrying at St. Francis Melbourne between 1841 and 1853, but I have no way of knowing which if any is the right John BOurke....in 1852 John Bourke married Bridget Aylward, and in 1852 John Bourke married Margaret O'Brien.