O'Rourke family
O'Rourke family of Livonia is a branch of Irish O'Rourkes. It descends from Cornelius O'Rourke (1736-1800), who went to Russian military service and became commandant of Dorpat. From his sons begin two family branches, the Livonian Lutheran branch and the Polish Roman Catholic branch. The most notable member of the family was Cornelius' son Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke (1772–1849), general in Russian service. Joseph's grandson Edward O'Rourke became bishop of Danzig.[1]
Coat of arms of Counts O'Rourke in Baltisches Wappenbuch
References
- Newerkla, Stefan Michael (2020), Das irische Geschlecht O'Reilly und seine Verbindungen zu Österreich und Russland [The Irish O'Reilly family and their connections to Austria and Russia]. In: Diachronie – Ethnos – Tradition: Studien zur slawischen Sprachgeschichte [Diachrony – Ethnos – Tradition: Studies in Slavic Language History]. Eds. Jasmina Grković-Major, Natalia B. Korina, Stefan M. Newerkla, Fedor B. Poljakov, Svetlana M. Tolstaja. Brno, Tribun EU, pp. 259–279, here 263–265 (accessible online).
External links
- Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Teil 1, 1: Livland. Görlitz 1929
- O'Rourkes in Russia, Hogan Stand
- The Arms and the Title of the Counts O’Rourke, Nobles of the Russian Empire
- The Irish O'Reilly family and their connections to Austria and Russia by Stefan M. Newerkla, with chapter 3.2 on the family O'Rourke in the Russian and Austrian context
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